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
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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 there was a bunch of big pimple all over my hair line and skalp and it was supper itchy then i popped one and a bunch of earwigs(a kind of bug)crawlled out and my head was super itchy. Im very obbesed and care alotta bout my hair so i think thats why lmao
I have a fear of bugs generally but I hardly ever dream of them. But I my dream, I went for a covid test, and then had to isolate. When i went into my room, all of the bugs started appearing. But not small ones (here in south africa we have a bug call “parktown prawn” but I think around the world its know as a “wetta”) all of those started coming out, along with praying mantises. And spiders, and really big beetles
In my dream I was in my living room with my mom and her boyfriend chatting, then a huge stink bug/cockroach/crab looking thing crawled onto the window (it was like the size of a suit case) and it was so big that it made the window have a big indent in it but it didn’t break and then the next day, when my mom’s boyfriend went into some tall grass to find something, the creature was in it and bit him. I’m writing this right after I woke up from the dream because I was researching if the giant creature in my dream meant anything.
I dreamed over and over that every time this same person would sit down and stand up these tiny little bugs would be in her seat and 2or 3 people not at the same time would wipe the bugs out of her seat.
I dreamed there was a bunch of nymphs all over my eye and I couldn’t blink. They were coming out of the corner of my eyes and crawling all over.
In my dream I was sleeping and then suddenly worms started coming out of my ears and nails and nose and they were everywhere they were too ugly and even after the dream I still feel they’re crawling on my body sometimes
In my dreams, when I’m awake I feel something in my body. So I looked it then I see a small bugs. I shocked. Idon’t know where it came from until later, the bugs is now in a large numbers. I ran fastly to ask for help until the bugs is releasing more from my body. I don’t know what disgusting and creeps it is. After this dream, my body feels itchy and remembered what happened when I’m crawled by the bugs. When I saw the meaning, I shocked because of this is what I have this too.
In my dream I was in the bathroom and there was this huge nasty bug and it bit me then I was in the hospital and I had the same bug inside my wrist and I started hallucinating bugs in my hair and growing out of my finger tips and then a doctor gave me a shot and my vision was all wonky and I couldn’t walk straight and then I passed out and then I woke up and my wrist was in so much pain because the bug inside me was biting on my vains and I was bleeding on the inside. What a freaking nightmare!!!
Im my dream i was on my bed but I wasn’t alone I had another person beside me but idk who it is then 2 insects flew on my face and I was trying to get them off but it wouldn’t get off and the person next to me got my blanket and tried to cover me then I woke up it felt so real that I woke up trying to get the insects out of my face
Im my dream i was on my bed but I wasn’t alone I had another person beside me but idk who it is then 2 insects flew on my face and I was trying to get them off but it wouldn’t get off and the person next to me got my blanket and tried to cover me then I woke up it felt so real that I woke up trying to get the insects out of my face
in my dream I opened up my school laptop and it was filled with bugs and I kept trying to clean them off but it wasn’t working. so when later in my dream, they started attacking me and creating in my skin and hair. talk about a nightmare.
I keep dreaming about cute cuddly animals, sometimes it’s my guinea pig turning into this big weird looking bug, other times it’s just a whole bunch of random hamsters/ or guinea pigs, and they end up turning into a whole bunch of bugs that I haven’t ever seen before. The bugs I see in my dream are very strange looking, in a bunch of different colors, sometimes they climb on top of me/surround me, other times they just stare at me, with their creepy eyes. It’s annoying because most cuddly animals in my dreams tend to turn into weird-looking bugs.
I dream the house was full of bugs, all over the wall, look toward the other room and it was full of bugs.
This is my third time seeing bugs and insects group in my dream that coming near me I was trying to kill but I did only some og them there were to much
Last night ive been dreaming about insect ( specifically lice) coming from my hand and ear. Can you please tell me what does it mean? Thank you
I seen a vision of a wind mill but when I went close to it they were big insects with wings that looked like wind mills
I dreamt that two boiled eggs turned into big cockroach looking bugs and one was dead but when I stepped on them to make sure they were dead they came to life shape shifting into certain molecules or in this case dog and cat dander. then I tried to kill the shap shifters by soaking them in bleach this killed the outcome of the one bug thst changed into a lot of cats . the one that changed into dogs I couldnt kill because it kept multipying into more dogs. Somewhere along thd way it turned into a human that I tried to put in the bleach but she got out and was mad at me. Apparently this dream about bugs means that I have low self asteem or guilt and shame As far as the bugs shifting into a human I have yet to study. I must have deep hatred for myself or I’ve done something I think is unforhiveable in God’s eyes. I will learn more about God’s forgiving love and keep an eye on these types of dreams. I’ll post as soon as I find out.
i have these strange dreams about people splitting in half and then bugs feasting on their insides, or crawling out of eyes, nose, ears, etc. what does this mean??
Had a dream that someone put bugs in our water, and I drank the bugs in my dreams not knowing they were in the water. Tried spitting them out but the coated my mouth and wouldn’t get out.
I dreamt about cicadas crawling out of my mouth, it wasnt a lot, maybe 5 or so but anytime i would open my mouth to say something a cicada would get in my mouth and i had to spit it out.