Interpreting Dreams - Megan Nichols

If everyone in the dream is you

(and everyone in the dream is you)

then when you stand naked in the classroom,

you are the classmates, the teacher, and the flesh.

And when your mother drowns you in the tub

you are the mother, the child, and the bathwater.

And when all your teeth fall out at once, think

of yourself as not just the Chiclets clattering

to the tile, not just the empty mouth gaping, gums

softening like frozen yogurt melt. No, think

of yourself as the fall too, not the thing that will fall,

or the thing that has fallen, not the force behind

the falling, nor the thing that falls. You are the verb,

the act of, the motion as it moves.