Razor Wire

The night before last, I dreamed that Stu and I were visiting an old friend.  I have a lot of unresolved things with this person, but in the dream last night we had stopped by on a road trip and at first it was uncomfortable and I knew they were uncomfortable, so when they offered a hug, I stepped in and squeezed them tight.  We hugged for a long time.  They said something I wasn't able to quite catch (something about 'pride') and I said, "We've both grown up, haven't we?"

Then we were all at a baseball diamond in the woods (worst place for a baseball game) and someone had put up a chainlink fence around the diamond, but then put razor wire on top.

I went into the dugout to talk to someone, and I realized that some of the razor and barbed wire had gotten stuck in my teeth.  I gingerly pulled out a long piece of barbed wire and some shards of razor wire, pricking my finger in the process.

Once I'd gotten all the wire out, I laid it all down on a shelf, but before I could go back to our conversation, I woke up.

It was weird because after the first part of the dream, when I woke up, I knew that what was unresolved between us had somehow worked itself out for me.  It felt really freeing, like putting an old ghost to rest.

The teeth thing, however, weirded me out.  It was like the wire was packed in there and any minute would tear my mouth apart.

Very uncomfortable.