Whatever loss might really mean

[beandelphiki]

I've always wondered how I would feel if a member of my immediate family - my mother, my father or my sister - died.

Most people probably wouldn't wonder. But I never felt much of anything when various members of my extended family died. I very rarely "miss" anyone - and I'm still not entirely certain I experience that emotion the same way that

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[siegeengine]

that's... really an interesting reaction. I can see where the phones not working fits with the scenario, but the tooth thing comes almost right out of left field.

Any thoughts on the significance of that?

[beandelphiki]

Well, in my dream I think I registered it as a psychosomatic reaction to the panic and anguish

[siegeengine]

no, that's really cool. I was thinking that I'd heard of the losing teeth motif somewhere before. It actually does relate directly to what you were dreaming about.

[beandelphiki]

And y'know, it just strikes me as rather bizarre how universal it seems to be, when I would never have consciously associated "losing teeth" with death. Huh.