“It was good for you; how was it for me?”

“Alien hands spring into action when the non-dominant side of the brain gains momentary control.”

According to the same source …

“The notion of some parallel universe peopled with our other halves — each watching helplessly as we hurtle through life oblivious to their cries — is the most sensational of all the explanations, but it was one that Roger Sperry came to believe in after observing split-brain patients at close quarters for months on end. ‘Everything we have seen indicates that the surgery has left these people with two separate minds,’ he wrote. ‘That is, two separate spheres of consciousness.’”

“I believe that the frequent modifications of the typical dream of dental irritation — that, for example, of another person drawing the tooth from the dreamer’s mouth, are made intelligible by means of the same explanation [masturbation]. It may, however, be difficult to see how ‘dental irritation’ can come to have this significance. I may then call attention to a transference from below to above which occurs very frequently. This transference is at the service of sexual repression, and by means of it all kinds of sensations and intentions occurring in hysteria which ought to be enacted in the genitals can be realised upon less objectionable parts of the body. It is also a case of such transference when the genitals are replaced by the face in the symbolism of unconscious thought. This is assisted by the fact that the buttocks resemble the cheeks, and also by the usage of language which calls the nymphæ ‘lips,’ as resembling those that enclose the opening of the mouth. The nose is compared to the penis in numerous allusions, and in one place as in the other the presence of hair completes the resemblance. Only one part of the anatomy — the teeth — are beyond all possibility of being compared with anything, and it is just this coincidence of agreement and disagreement which makes the teeth suitable for representation under pressure of sexual repression.

“I do not wish to claim that the interpretation of the dream of dental irritation as a dream of masturbation, the justification of which I cannot doubt, has been freed of all obscurity. I carry the explanation as far as I am able, and must leave the rest unsolved. But I must also refer to another connection revealed by an idiomatic expression. In our country there is in use an indelicate designation for the act of masturbation, namely: To pull one out, or too pull one down. I am unable to say whence these colloquialisms originate, and on what symbolisms they are based, but the teeth would well fit in with the first of the two.”

“In Western societies, teeth symbolize youth, potency, strength, and virility. Aging is associated with tooth loss. About 70% of people who have lost their teeth express regret and 60% consider dentures a handicap.”

Gery Spence (“The Gospel of the Corporate God: An Erie, Fearsome Religion,” 2012) wrote …

“Faced with a choice between their own welfare and that of the corporate God, the people stand in fear. Dare they speak out against this religion? Would they be seen as communists or un-American? Must they not blindly embrace the false doctrine that if the rich cannot get richer there will be no crumbs left under the table for them?”