Dreams of disease are more related to insects than dreams in general. They are less related to peers.

Dreams of disease are much more related to sadness, more related to grief and sorrow, and more related to pain than dreams in general. They are less related to embarrassment, less related to confusion, and less related to hatred.

Disease dreams are more related to work than dreams in general. They are less related to home, less related to transportation, and less related to natural places.

Disease dreams are more related to sex, more related to disasters, and more related to eating and drinking than dreams in general.

Disease dreams are more related to nightmares, more related to bad dreams, and much more related to sad dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to lucid dreams, less related to recurring dreams, and less related to sleep paralysis.

Dreams of disease are more related to smelling than dreams in general. They are less related to hearing, less related to taste, and less related to vision.

You can gain insight from thinking about any dream, no matter how strange. Only you, as the dreamer, have final say on what your dream may or may not mean. Each dream is unique.

The DreamWell dictionary provides information on how each dream symbol appears in dreams in general. Finding how experience disease in dreams can be a key to understanding its meaning.

Our emotions in dreams can help us understand its meaning. Pay attention to how you felt in the dream. Pay attention to how you feel about disease in dreams. See how you feel about disease now, in your waking life.

This interpretation is from ""The Dream Interpretation Dictionary: Symbols, Signs, and Meanings" and is provided by J.M. DeBord aka "RadOwl". He is the author of several acclaimed books about dreaming, the host of The Dreams That Shape Us podcast, and is a moderator of r/Dreams, one of the largest dream sharing communities on the internet. Having a disease in a dream can indicate something’s wrong. It might be your health—dreams are known to deliver direct messages about health, and the body has a monitoring system that speaks through them. Or it might relate to your mind or emotions, either of which can be said to be diseased. Think of disease as a metaphor. What does it describe in an exaggerated way? Disease in a dream often relates to stress, anxiety, and anything else you might say is slowly killing you. See: Cancer Disease can mean you’re no longer able to cope with a situation. Disease can symbolize something you do that’s wrong. For example, a woman who starts shoplifting dreams about having gangrene in her hands. She uses her hands to shoplift, and gangrene symbolizes the fear of getting caught that’s eating at her. Fear of disease can lead to dreams about it. It can be your worst nightmare come true. The nightmares will continue until the fear is confronted or resolved. See: Fear Dreams can speak directly when they warn of disease and identify what it is and where it’s located in the body. Dr. Larry Burk’s research into dreams that warn of breast cancer goes into depth on this subject. All varieties of diseases and medical conditions can be addressed through dreams. Dreams can advise about treatments and cures. Direct-warning dreams feel heavy. They’re somber, serious, sometimes with a “Sorry I have to tell you this” vibe. They can be repetitive, coming night after night until the message is heeded. And they can be seconded by the dreams of people close to you, who can pick up on subconscious clues. A man had a dream that harkened back to when he caught typhoid as a child, and it was triggered by smelling typhoid on the breath of someone he met the previous day. Typhoid leaves a distinct smell on the breath that manifests before the symptoms, but he didn’t realize at the time why the smell was familiar. That night he had the dream, and the next day he found out the person he met had typhoid. Diseases can manifest in dreams as problems with the condition of a building, especially a house, because a building is a common symbol for the body, and many comparisons and metaphors can be made with it. For example, cloudy windows can symbolize cataracts. Rusty hinges can symbolize arthritis. Clogged pipes can symbolize arterial disease. A bullet embedded in your body can symbolize a tumor (which can suddenly “explode” with growth). A bite on the neck can symbolize throat trouble. Or perhaps someone is a pain in the neck, or something is draining your vitality. Always consider alternatives. Disease in a dream is usually figurative, not literal. “The root of disease is dis-ease,” is a saying from the holistic-health community. “Dis-ease” is a state of unease, anxiety, stress or fear. Dreaming about disease can mean dis-ease, and they go hand in hand because chronic dis-ease is a precursor to actual disease. Disease can express itself through somatic metaphor. Symptoms are physical manifestations of a person’s life story, often arising from chronic situations. For example, chronic lack of physical intimacy can manifest as symptoms in the reproductive organs. A situation crippling you in the personal sense can manifest as an autoimmune disease crippling you in the physical sense. Dreams can use symbolism comparable to getting a disease, or someone you love getting a disease. It can rock your world like an earthquake, hang over your head like a funnel cloud, and toss your boat like a hurricane. Also consider situations described as “diseased.” Diseased organizations are dysfunctional. A family disease is something passed down through generations, such as addiction. See also: Abscesses, Addicts, Body parts, Cancer, Deformation, Doctors, Elderly people, Fear, Hospitals, Illness, Infecting, Infesting, Panic