Just remembered the dream I woke from in Happy Valley-Goose Bay this morning. Grossest thing - my left eye was irritated and I was looking closely at it in a mirror. I spotted a piece of hair floating around, so I caught it between index finger and thumb, and started to pull on it...it was not an eyelash, but rather a strand of my hair that somehow became entwined on the tissue behind my eyeball. I grabbed my nail grooming scissors with the delicate point, and attempted to snip the hair...
As I tugged the strand of entangled hair, I felt it pull on my uvula. I opened my mouth and noticed what seemed like a fine, golden elastic stretching from my uvula to my tongue...I stuck the scissors into my mouth to snip the delicate elastic to free myself of the discomfort. Gagging I managed to get the scissors just right, and I snipped - the elastic sprung right back into place & I realized that had I snipped that delicate elastic, I would have lost my ability to speak...
I felt tormented by the discomfort, and simultaneously relieved that I still had the ability to articulate myself.