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What are insect dreams about?

We tend to think of insects as just being bugs or small creatures. Insects are animals. There are a profound number of different types of insects. In fact, they might represent over 90% of the different types of animal species. This symbol is identified by words like the flies, wasp, ant, etc.

Insects in dreams is a relatively common dream symbol, occuring in about 3.4% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 30 dreams.

What are the major highlights of insect dreams?

Insects is a normal dream symbol. Having insects in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.

Insect dreams are very social

Dreams of insects contain more characters than most other dream symbols. While dreams are often about other people and social relationships, dreams of insects are especially related to having lots of characters. Other symbols that are like this include dragons, different roles, brothers, sharks, old friends, actors, seeing a dead father, employees, coworkers, and other verbs.

What are the symbols that help define insects?

The symbol of insects in dreams is highly related to ants, bees, beetles, butterflies, flies, general insects, ladybugs, maggots, mosquitoes, parasites, roaches, spiders, wasps, and worms.

How does the dream symbol of insects affect the different aspects of a dream?

Explore different elements related to dreams of insects

Who is in insects dreams?

Overall, dreams with insects are much more related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of insects are more related to animals than dreams in general. They are less related to insects, less related to different roles, and much less related to distant people.

Animals

more than usual

Insects

much more than usual

Different roles

less than usual

Fantastic beings

the same as usual

Distant people

much less than usual

Close people

less than usual

Family

less than usual

Romantic partners

less than usual
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What are the emotions in insects dreams?

Overall, dreams with insects are less related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of insects are less related to happiness, less related to sadness, and less related to grief and sorrow.

Happiness

less than usual

Sadness

less than usual

Grief and sorrow

less than usual

Embarrassment

less than usual

Confusion

less than usual

Fear

the same as usual

Pain

the same as usual

Hatred

the same as usual

Fun

less than usual

Love

less than usual
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Who is in insects dreams?

Overall, dreams with insects are less related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of insects are less related to home, less related to work, and much less related to human places.

Home

less than usual

Work

less than usual

Human places

much less than usual

Transportation

less than usual

Natural places

less than usual

Magical places

less than usual
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What happens in insects dreams?

Overall, dreams with insects are less related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of insects are less related to aggressive interactions, much less related to friendly interactions, and less related to sex.

Aggressive interactions

less than usual

Friendly interactions

much less than usual

Sex

less than usual

Disasters

less than usual
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How do insects in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?

Overall, dreams with insects are less related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of insects are less related to waking life.

Lucid dreams

the same as usual

Nightmares

the same as usual

Recurring dreams

the same as usual

Recurring nightmares

the same as usual

Sleep paralysis

the same as usual

Sleeping

the same as usual

Waking life

less than usual
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How do insects in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with insects are less related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of insects are less related to hearing, less related to taste, and less related to vision.

Hearing

less than usual

Smelling

the same as usual

Taste

less than usual

Vision

less than usual

Touch

less than usual
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How can you make sense of insects in dreams?

Insect dreams are relatively common. Among other things insect dreams are normally interconnect and very social.

Do you think this is true for your dream of insects? How might your dream of insects be different?

All dreams have meaning

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.

Look for the differences

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

Return to the feelings

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 insects in dreams. See how you feel about insects now, in your waking life.

Examples of dreams of insects

Read some real dream reports of insect dreams.. These real life dream reports come from the moderated dream sharing communities of Reddit including r/Dreams, r/Nightmares, r/DreamInterpretation, or r/thisdreamihad. Please note that some of these may contain graphic, sexual, or violent images and text. Use the source link for each dream to view and join the discussion of each one.

I had a super vivid dream last night. Can anyone tell me what they think it might mean?

So I run into Joey Votto (random, I know) and he is giving himself a tattoo and he tells me a story. He says, "I'm giving myself a new tattoo today" and he draws this super vivid beetle on his forearm. He says, " do you know why?" I say, "no". He says, "beetle are the most confident creatures in the world, only 10 percent of them make it to (some destination) but it never deters their confidence. This is a representation of me and my life." As he was telling the story, the scene went from him drawing the bbeetleon his arm, to that Beetle coming alive and several others (hundreds) coming at me. But it was just super weird how there was such a strong focus on the bbeetleand how vivid it felt! Thank you!

So I run into Joey Votto (random, I know) and he is giving himself a tattoo and he tells me a story. He says, "I'm giving myself a new tattoo today" and he...

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Spider dream

In my dream I walked into my bathroom and saw a bug flying and it was carrying a bug. When I walked in the big vanished into thin Air dropping the spiderbugs back. The tarantulabug a deep brown color of that make any difference

In my dream I walked into my bathroom and saw a bug flying and it was carrying a bug. When I walked in the big vanished into thin Air dropping the spiderbug

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wtf?

Some stuff may be a little disturbing to some people. So basically I had this dream that my church went on some field trip and I was just walking around in this water park. And I kept feeling this buzzing on the back of my neck. I went to go talk to this group of people and when I did one of them said oh hey you hit something on your neck and he pulled out a knife and cut open my neck and a little nest of wasps flew out of my neck. Then I woke up

Some stuff may be a little disturbing to some people. So basically I had this dream that my church went on some field trip and I was just walking around in...

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Someone please help me decipher a dream

I had a terrible dream just now and i’m not sure what it means.
I fell asleep and i entered my dream. It started with my boyfriend and i together, in a walmart shopping for groceries for my grandfather. He was pushing me in the cart and i was telling him what he needed to get for the trip. I saw our mutual friend and invited him to join. We finish up our trip and go outside in the walmart parking lot. There’s now a huge group of us, and someone else is pushing me in the cart, i’m not sure who though. He pushes me into this big net, (the size of a circus tent), with the whole thing filled with bugs. i hate bugs. When i come
out i can’t find my boyfriend, so i have his friend take me home. When i get home i’m upset (naturally) so i go to take a nap. Here’s where it gets confusing. When i laid down, i tried to open my eyes, but i couldn’t. I could still move my body though. In the dream, i was laying down in the next spot i fell asleep in real life. So i couldn’t open my eyes, but i could move. This is already scary enough. So i try crawling down to the floor so i could go to the bathroom, and i make it there. I open my eyes a little bit and see that the bathroom is red, but that’s all i can see. I then go back to my room, in the same spot, and lay back down again. However, i didn’t make this decision willingly. It’s like something else lead me there, and forced me to lay back down. At this point it was hard to move, and all i could see was the ceiling above me. Then there was a repeating loop of me trying to get up and open my eyes, but i couldn’t. i kept trying to throw my head up, or jerk my arms or anything, but i still couldn’t do anything. When i woke up in real life, my neck hurt, i think i was jerking it in my sleep as well. This whole thing is very scary to me and i’m not sure what it means. All i know is that i was stuck in that spot, couldn’t move, see or talk. Towards the end of my dream i told myself to wake up, and i did. Can anybody please help my figure out what this means 🥺

I had a terrible dream just now and i’m not sure what it means.
I fell asleep and i entered my dream. It started with my boyfriend and i together, in a walmart...

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I had a dream and I think that it changed me.

I arose from bed, feeling this heated tingling in my chest (like when you’re flustered or extremely frustrated.) It felt like there were thousands of fire ants in me. I walked into the bathroom and almost instinctively, I reached into my torso and opened the cavity; swinging my rib cage open.
I saw my insides were rotten and stale.
My heart was calcified, and it jittered and flinched like a wounded animal
My lungs, I mistook for blackened kidneys at first. They dangled and limply swung from the brachia.
My ribs were twisted and curled and marred like a bird’s cage. They looked like they were about to turn to dust.
I could feel a great resistance in my breath and my blood poured like tar.
I examined my face.
My teeth: rotten.
My eyes: dull.
I drooled in attempt to comprehend what I saw.
All that was beautiful and brilliant about me had become encrusted with rust.
I looked like I was without even a glimmer.

I woke up in my bed. But I didn’t move for a long time. I just laid there thinking nothing.
I reached for my Juul.
I threw it to the other side of the room as hard as I could.
I never want to feel that way again.

I was so relieved to know that I still had time. But I also realized that the way I feel today might be the best I will ever feel in my life.

Today I will buy some running shoes.
This week I will finish that app I was working on last month.
For the rest of my life I will remember what I saw and how I felt.
For the first time in a long time I feel like there’s hope.

I arose from bed, feeling this heated tingling in my chest (like when you’re flustered or extremely frustrated.) It felt like there were thousands of fire ants...

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