Scared

I have a mouthgaurd that I wear at night to keep me from grinding my teeth. It's a relatively new thing, and I have mixed feelings about it. One the one hand, it's good not to grind my teeth anymore. On the other, it's kind of a pain in the ass. It's made of hard plastic, and needs to be softened in hot water before I put it in. Then it fits over my bottom teeth, where I'm definitely aware of its presence. I catch myself popping it on and off when I wake up sometimes, and once dream that I remember even involved wearing some sort of set of "false teeth" which I kept popping in and out, which I awoke to find was my mouthgaurd.

This is all neither here not there, however. The real problem is that I put it in last night, as I've finally gotten into the habit of doing each night before I got to bed, and then went to sleep early-- around 9. I awoke at 3:30 in the morning, and it's no where to be found. I've had a good 30 minute search of the bedsheets, the floor, the table near the bed. It's nowhere. There's also this strange constricted feeling in my chest-- like I swallowed something large that's stuck there.

This is not good.