{"id":36416,"date":"2025-07-30T17:58:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T17:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/articles\/mouth-like-sandpaper-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T17:58:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T17:58:14","slug":"mouth-like-sandpaper-2","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/articles\/mouth-like-sandpaper-2\/","title":{"rendered":"mouth like sandpaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\">Hi Steve\u2014 <\/p>\n<p>Do you remember the myth of Sisyphus, from Greek Mythology? Sisyphus was a king in Ancient Greece who upset Zeus one day. (Something about the pecking order, I believe). <\/p>\n<p>Zeus thought Sisyphus needed to think things over for a while, so he sent him to Hades, where Sisyphus was forever forced to roll a rock uphill. Whenever Sisyphus neared the top, the rock would roll back down upon him, and then Sisyphus would be forced to start again. <\/p>\n<p>Does this ring any bells? <\/p>\n<p>Judging by how you feel when you wake from this dream\u2014mouth dry like sandpaper, out of breath, sweating, unrested\u2014I strongly suspect that you have sleep apnea, a condition characterized by difficulty breathing during sleep. Furthermore, I think your dream is an excellent illustration of how apnea often is represented in dream form. Other \u201ctypical apnea dreams\u201d include swimming deep in the ocean and suddenly running out of air, crawling ever further into a cave and then the air runs out, or of being in a tight box or room with air running out. Clearly\u2014the common theme is lack of air. <br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\">Drive your browser over to the <a href=\"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/articles\/signs-of-sleep-apnea\/\" id=\"1424\" option=\"com_content\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Signs of Sleep Apnea<\/span><\/a> page, Steve. Take<\/span> <span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"> \u00a0the quiz by yourself<\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"> at first, then take it with your bedpartner. If the quiz rings some bells, and if living with apnea is beginning to feel like <\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\">living with Sisyphus (in Hades), then the next place you want to drive to&#8230; is a sleep clinic. You\u2019ll be happy you did\u2014I promise! <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Back to the <a href=\"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/articles\/mouth-like-sandpaper\/\" id=\"1427\" option=\"com_content\">original question<\/a><br \/>Back to <a href=\"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/articles\/snoring-sleep-apnea\/\" id=\"81\" option=\"com_content\">Snoring &amp; Sleep Apnea page<\/a><\/span> <a href=\"sleep-apnea\/wake-up-choking-a.html?phpMyAdmin=29c2328cc73b8ed64ba7f78bbbec0416\"><br \/><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[3226,3233],"class_list":["post-36416","articles","type-articles","status-publish","hentry","category-better-sleep-answer","category-sleep-apnea-better-sleep-answer"],"acf":{"article_id":"1439"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/articles\/36416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/articles"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/articles"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}