Dreams about insects – what do they mean? (dream interpretation insects)
Dream interpretation insects or bugs. Dreaming about creepy-crawlies is not uncommon, but what does it actually mean? It can be several things.
NOTE: Corona-update (April 2020) – the corona pandemic has resulted in a huge increase in dreams about bugs/insects attacking / crawling all over the body (as shown in preliminary corona pandemic dream research). In this image these dreams might simply symbolize our reaction (deep down) to the pandemic.
Mostly our fear/anxiety in relation to the virus – that then might show that we are more afraid/anxious than we maybe think we are.
Other angles on insect dreams / dreams about bugs:
Negative feelings that haunt you. Dreaming about insects or bugs – especially in large numbers – is often a symbol of negative thoughts or feelings (guilt, anxiety) that haunt you or, more metaphorically, crawls through your unconscious mind. You might ask yourself: what is it I am trying to push away or will not face?
Is it an old habit or previous experience that I am trying to avoid confronting and which is now popping up? If previous bad experiences lurk in the unconscious mind, one thing is certain: they influence – often in a negative manner – the way you think and act when you are awake.
This can for example be about low self-esteem because of the bad experience or a significant unconscious feeling of envy that may ruin your relationships with others.
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When trying to understand your dreams it is important to know that your dreams are… your dreams. As such, you are the best person to figure out the true meaning of your dreams.
However, it is important to learn how to generally approach your dreams. Dream dictionaries like this one are only a supplement, and if you want to fully utilize the potential of your dreams, you should start at a different place.
My online course “Unlock your DREAMlife” gives you a great foundation for understanding (and recalling) your dreams.
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Not being in touch with your instincts. However, it can also be about a fundamental instinctive part of yourself that you are not utilizing. In other words, you can be too “in your head” (too rational or logical), and a dream about loads of insects can in this way be a strong indication to change your approach to life and the challenges you might encounter.
Try noticing how you feel instead of overthinking things.
The individual insects can also be significant. An ant can symbolize a more group based and organized approach to life – a lone ant can therefore mean isolation. Do you have to ask for help and bring others into the solution to your challenges, or do you have to find your inner organizer?
The group mentality also applies to bees, but a bee that stings you can mean that someone or something has “stung you” – have you recently been hurt by others (external interpretation), or has a sudden inner impulse/feeling left negative traces (internal interpretation)? A significant theme in the world of dreams is spiders – see the blog post about Spiders.
Caterpillars, cocoons and butterflies are often signs of something growing into something bigger and better – a process of maturing, in other words. What inside of you is right now a caterpillar that one day could become a big, beautiful butterfly?
Worms – depending on the species – often feed on decaying things, and a dream where worms appear might be a symbol of something within you rotting or decaying. This can be a positive thing (destructive thoughts and patterns that have died), but it can also be a strong and positive, but unused aspect of yourself, and if you are not careful, this aspect might be lost.
Worms, however, can also symbolize something you feel threatened by, maybe a weakness or negativism.
If you are dreaming about ringworm, this might mean you have to take better care of your body (it will rarely mean that you actually have ringworm).
Dream dictionaries are a very helpful tool when interpreting dreams. However, generally learning how to approach your dreams, will give you a better foundation for understanding them. My online course “Unlock your DREAMlife” teaches you how to much better utilize – recall and understand – your dreams.
Also read: Why I no longer interpret dreams for free
Return to the index of dream themes and symbols:
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NOTE: Dream interpretation is not always an easy skill, and when you dream about insects, it is almost certainly about something different for you than it is for someone else dreaming about insects. It is crucial that you feel the interpretation fits you, but it might be the case that the above interpretations do not suit you and your situation.
I had a dream where i was overwhelmed with big slimy insects and little worms big weird black worms looked like the stranger things type. It gave me such a negative feeling. The room was dark with a dimmed light showing the bigs slimy insects produing more and more of its self. I dont remember if they actually came out of me too but i remember i was touching it disgusted and i think a figure was encouraging them things to come on to me. It was weird…
I dreamed first mile worms in the rice I tried to eat and then a mosquito giving birth to eggs in the bath tub, I opened the hot water to kill the eggs and then bees or bumblebees started crawling out of the tub. At that point I closed the door and asked my mother what is wrong with this house.
Then I woke up.
I had 2 dreams 2 nights in a row involving bugs.
The first night I had a dream I woke up and looked to the ceiling and there was a huge spider and it fell on my head and in my sleep I wanted to smack my own head but I couldn’t pull myself out of my dream.
The 2nd night, I had a dream I went to bring the trash cans up from the curb to find that they had tipped over and rotting food was all over the front yard and a line of cockroaches starting at the back of the house came to the front and were in the rotting trash.
So, I had some weird dream that I was still living in my previous house, which I grew up in. Mom pointed out that I had these small, skinny black bugs on my clothes. I was freaking out as I tried to take the bugs off. Then, I would get paranoid about the bugs coming back. What would this dream possibly mean?
Dream of insect crawling out of body. Why?
I had a dream that I was in this pit with two other people yet I don’t know who they were. The pit had water in it. The place was infested with gnats. We killed a few hidden best of random insects and they somewhat came after us but couldn’t do anything. We fell back into the pit and it was filled with dead bugs of multiple species. The thicker “wave” Portion was to look like exoskeletons of bees and ants and the still thinner water was just gnats. When we get out of the water only one or two pieces of the gnat’s bodies stayed one me and the others. Then everyone seemed so hostile towards another even when they are supposed to love each other. I was in school (I’m 20) this looked like a mixture of high school and college. The teachers had their favorites and was highly disrespectful towards the kids that worked hard. Then a fight between me and a childhood friend occurred in the hallway and in the floor of the hallway had dead bugs in the floor. We fought with a broom and a pan. I got many hits and she got one. Then just made up and left. She was the more aggressive talker but I had more action. What does this mean?
I dreamt last night I had these quite big antennas sticking out of my bellybutton, I kept pulling them out and they were these weird, long grey creatures. They kept appearing so I kept pulling them out. I could “see” inside my belly and the damage being done by them.
I have a laparoscopy coming in a few weeks I assume that’s related as I have chronic pelvic pain and suspected endometriosis so I assume it’s connected? I don’t know. Freaked me out.
I dreamed recently that I was in a town where we were all being chased by swarms of non-descript flying insects that were eatting everyone. The ones who didn’t die were almost zombie like. On top of it all they would chew through the wood in houses to get to people and apparently in the dream I was pregnant not with a baby but with a queen to these bugs. (Note: Not possible for me to be pregnant at this time so not one of those dreams.) It was almost as if they were huge scarabs.
I dreamt about finding green bugs crawling all over me in hidden bodyparts like inside my shoes on my feet or my back.
I dreamt that I purchased this children’s book and when I got home, i had to babysit my friends toddler. I picked up the book I seemed to have strong feelings for as I hugged it tight and smiled. Like picking up a beloved stuffed animal or something filled with many memories. Anyway, I turned back to share the book with the toddler and noticed this small grouping of tiny black beetles crawling on my hand. I quickly tried to wipe them away and realized they were also on my shirt in a small bunch, when I noticed the source was the children’s book. I opened the book and the tiny black bugs crawled out onto my hands. I dropped the book and focused on trying to swat them off, but, they were so clingy I could only manage a couple at a time. I squished 1 or two between the spine of the book and a wall, then tried transferring the bugs to the wall by pressing my hand and arm to the wall. This did not work, maybe for a couple, but instead, the small grouping multiplied to a golfball sized grouping as it slowly climbed up my arm. I tried frantically to stop them before reaching the sleeve of my shirt, but it was useless, I could feel them as I clutched my sleeve. It felt like a handful beneath my shirt. My focus was pulled away when I felt something bite the palm of my other hand. When I lifted my hand to look, the swarm seemed to all but stop/disappear beneath my shirt. I focused on the small red bite mark in my palm and spotted a tiny black beetle beneath my skin. I tried to pop the bite like a pimple, but, then noticed two more teeny bigs crawling beneath the skin of my palm. I pushed with my thumb trying to guide them to the bite and it was useless… My dog woke me up at this point, I have chills and read that black beetles are bad… They were teeny, small as a grain of rice. This whole time though as I panicked in my dream, I did not want to scare the toddler and seemed to project a frantic calm. He sat on the bed waiting for his book and played with a small toy truck I handed him when he was dropped off in the dream.
I had a dream I was being told to befriend a giant black snake and I was scared. While I hezitated the snake got caught on a spinning fan sort of this and was cut into pieces still alive and able to move it went after me. I ran until I went into a room for a bite to eat. I accidentaly ate a spider and I couldnt get the pieces out of my mouth. Then I was at a beach people were learning how to surf. I went to go to the extra board to learn but the people dissappeared and the beach dried up. I walked where there was once a beach to the other side where there was woods and a path. I staretd to fly. It felt good I was in control. I came across a tree with white wild mushrooms and I wondered if they were safe or poison. I left them. And looked above my head hanging was a beetle nest, next to it a beehive, next to that a birds nest. I was in a little village of critters. I backed up and then it was over.
Hi I’m nisha and last night had a dream where was getting bit by these tiny blue and green insect. They were all around and I literally felt the bites all over my body but mainly my arms and legs. As the dream continued I was constantly trying to figure out ways of not getting bit but no matter what I tried nothing worked for long.
I had a dream that I’m in a place. And for some reason my clothes are in a luggage then I saw some bugs on my clothes that are outside. I’ll try to get ride of them and see more on the wall then I decide to open my luggage to see if there is some there are I see there are Tons of them in my suitcase so I was thinking maybe I should take the luggage out and let the clothes out side till it’s bug free and some of them are bigger it’s like they’ve been feeding and they are quit larger but when I open the suitcase one of the largest one jump on me then I wake up.
I had a dream about thousands of diffent insects falling from the sky, mostly large flying insects, flooding through windows, doors and me rushing around trying to close all the windows to stop them coming in. I asked why it was happening and apparently the female bugs were dying.
I wrote this right when I woke up, Bugs squishing them more come tinier and tinier and they sting
With a friend trying to help me but then leaves me when man and a mob of black men start surrounding me because they thought I said a racist comment by saying I couldn’t see a guy in the bushes in the dark and he was black although I didn’t even make the comment that he was black, they surrounded me Ian alley and by that time my so called friend was gone, and they wouldn’t leave me alone until I went into the alley. When I finally did at the end of the alley there was a door and a sink filled with dirty dishes and the other side was filled with water and a tortilla floating in the middle and a woman that looked Hispanic to my knowledge told me to flip in and there were cockroaches in the sink and everywhere walking and I thought that was what was going to pop out when I flipped the tortilla, I screamed a little quietly and flipped the tortilla then what came out was a huge bug colors red white and blue like the ones I was squishing and more came out of them so I stepped on it, and before it exploded I shut the door and for some reason screamed without being scared but to assimilate that they’d done something horrible to me so that they would leave me alone so as I ran down the same alley I thought maybe they are the one who r putting these bugs were I was to scare me but why , and then all of a sudden I appeared in the back of what seemed a posada and they were praying and I had a white sheet like fabric hoody in like the kkk one but a bit different, then this women took my hoody of and realized I was part of that but when I thought she was going to tell on me she said to following her down the stair to where there god to which they were praying for at first it looked like it would be of the virgencita but I looked I higher up and it was la muerte and I was scared although I kept on praying so they didn’t notice anything odd about me and then I woke up.
I had a dream last night. I was sleeping in my dream and woke up to many red bumps that looked like kinda pimples. They were itchy. Since I’m allergic I thought this is some king of allergic reaction and they were really itchy and with a closer look there were many bugs coming out of them out of every bump in different sizes according the bumps they were coming out. They were like blooming. They didn’t move but I’m talking about hundreds of them. I fainted but since it was a dream not really. I immediately got my consciousness back. I remember crying screaming in the dream for some people to help both friends and family but nobody seemed to think it was anything important. It was rather horrible dream never experienced such one. Even though I get nightmares this one was on a whole another level.
I had a dream that I had a pimple/boil on my hand (in the skin between my thumb and pointer finger), and every time I squeezed it or even flexed my fist, a bunch of baby ants (maybe spiders? I remember not being able to tell in the dream) started pouring out. The feelings I had were sheer panic panic, fear and a bit of morbid interest (like seeing a car wreck and not being able to look away). What does it mean?
I had the most horrible dream that we were out of town and my son was playing in dirt and started cry all of a sudden then on his back it looked like little maggots forcing their way into his skin and they started to feed off of him and on the middle of all this a tornado was starting to happen and I was told I needed to get the bugs out quick or he would dye so I had to look for the tools I needed quickly and the bugs would leave these big holes in hos back as I pulled them out and the bugs ended up forming into botfly like things with claws like lobster then i woke up before i could get them all out.
Ik this isnt about this but i dreamt that i was at school and then no one had clothes, and when we tried to walk, we went back to the same place we already stood before like glitching, and when my step mom came to get me she yelled at me for something i did, i dont remember much, and then at home we suddenly lived in the city, as u know i live on the countryside with a neighborhood long away from the city, i looked out the window and said that i had no one to be with and then dad said ” i dont care. ” then i said something else and then he said the same thing just with a chuckle, then i went up to my room seeing ALL TYPES of bugs and insects, i went to my window in my room as there were insects on the net thing i used to set up so no bugs could come in
What does this mean?
I had a dream the other night that I crushed a beetle shell. The beetle shell was a yellow terquiose color. And maybe some green. What do you think that means?