Losing Face

I had this dream about losing my face, as you’re aware dreams are often a rather non-nonsensical string of experiences. So I was driving in a car through my hometown Denver, Colorado — my girlfriend was driving the car (which is a bit funny because she doesn't actually know to how drive) and the car had two annoying blue lights in it, that’s probably because I have two annoying blue lights in my bedroom that I need to cover up every night before going to bed.

In the next scene, I had injured my face somehow, it wasn't painful but somehow I had lost a significant portion of my right jaw. My face looked disproportional and warped.
Then I did something foolish. I tried to fix my face by removing the other side of my face, I cut my left cheek, jowls, teeth, and jaws away from my face. My bloody teeth were in a sink. Then I looked at myself in a mirror and I was hideous! A giant chunk of the right side of my face was now missing. My rather strong and masculine jawline was gone. But my self-administered surgery did not balance out my face. My face was still grossly asymmetrical but now it looked weak and alien.

Then another woman appeared in my dream. She expressed a little concern for my deformed face. I told her I tried to do surgery and myself and now I would visit a plastic surgeon.

Dream analysis

In the dream, I’m back in Denver. So clearly I’m thinking about Denver; my life and my family there. My girlfriend was driving the car, so maybe I feel like she has some power over my direction in life. This is silly because I’m a very self-directed person, perhaps this is my insecurity about loss of independence — making this transition from a being single, sovereign man trotting the globe to being a boyfriend. Then somehow I lose face, this must have something to do with my feeling ashamed about missing my brother’s wedding in Denver. It is shameful that I’m missing this event. Then I try to try to remedy the situation but I just make it worse.
So it’s probably a dream about my shame and insecurity. That’s interesting.

I’ve practiced lucid dreaming for some time

I’d encourage you to audio blog your dreams using a voice recorder app on your smartphone. It’s the best way I’ve found to remember my dreams. If I don’t audio blog my dreams immediately after having them, I consistently lose the memories I have of these very cool nightly adventures I experience. I’ll spend a minute or two recording my dreams, hit the upload button, and then I’ll go back to sleep. I have a dream journaling folder on Google Drive that I’ll listen to the contents of from time to time just to re-explore the weird and wacky scenarios my nocturnal mind creates.