Mouthful of Metal

My most recent dream had a recurring theme for me- the inability to speak. At its worst my teeth are rotting painfully out of my mouth and i cannot form words at all. This time, my mouth was full of sharp metal braces with rubber bands zig-zagging all over the place. Variations on these types of dreams in the past have also included my having a mouth full of syringe needles, broken glass or sand. A lot of time these speech-impediment dreams are accompanied with partial blindness, like my eyes fade in and out of working properly. At least I have taken the illness and am trying to externalize it; I just have to find the ability to spit it out.