false wakining with bubble gum stuck in mouth

[natsy]

Iv just turn 40 the other week and since i was about 15 iv been having the same dream, ,its just a black space , no walls or nothing, just blackness, my heads in the middle of it,( just my head , nothing else) and i get a big ball of chewing gum stuck in my mouth,,, that's it really,,but it feels real, like in the morning in not sure if it was a dream or real(false wakening),, iv had loads of them , and some others exactly the same dream but my tooth feel out,, and another one were my bottom lip gets caught in the gap between my teeth,,also they are false wakenings,, i actually told someone about what happened with my tooth and them realized it was just a dream and never really happened,,,when i was very young (3 to 10 years oldish) i used to have exactly the same dream with my head in a dark space, but i remember seeing a thought bubble with a butcher and a big knife,,, there the only dreams i remember wheni i was young,,

[greg lousy]

How does it feel?  It reads like it would be kind of awful but I don't want to project too much.   It makes me think of being in an unsolvable situation. The gum (or whatever) is a problem and there's nothing else BUT the problem, black space, no hands or anything, just you and a problem with no solution.  The butcher in the early dreams would lead me to suspect that these dreams may have come from an awareness of death, loss (i. e. tooth loss) and separateness, with the correlating feelings of stress, hopelessness, futility, deep archetypal frustration. But then again, if this isn't the kind of feeling in the dreams, I'm probably completely off. 

      I used to think about floating in space and having some sticky residue on my fingers, and if I tried to rub it off I would only get it on my other hand, and the only solution was to accept it's presence.  I think I was in college trying to concoct some kind of philosophical theory, but anyway, that was the first thing I thought of when I read this. If you were able to become lucid in this dream I bet you could learn a lot about it.