What are parasite dreams about?
A parasite is usually a living being that survives by living inside of another living being and taking advantage of their host. There are any number of relationships between living beings and most of these are mutually beneficial. A parasite, however, by definition, provides no benefits to the host and frequently causes damage. This symbol is identified by words like parasite.
Parasites in dreams is a very rare dream symbol, occuring in about 0.1% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 900 dreams.
What are the major highlights of parasite dreams?
Parasites is a normal dream symbol. Having parasites in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.
Parasite dreams seem to lack places or locations
Dreams of parasites frequently do not mention places or locations. The dream may or may not take place in varying locations. But dreams of parasites simply do not mention the location, places, or settings occuring within the dream. Other symbols that are like this include places, girlfriends, hamsters, venom, frogs, giving birth, subconscious, youtube, cancer, and genitals.
What symbols more present in dreams of parasites?
Parasite dreams are notable because they have substantially more parasites in body, body changes, talismans, body parts, skin, maggots, mosquitoes, worms, health events, creatures, general insects, acne, things, foreseeing, infecting, hole, eggs, beetles, hosts, eating, toenails, creeping and crawling, fish, squids, blood, disease, kittens, tininess, unpleasantness, grey eyes, ladybugs, scientists, movement, toilets, squirrels, other fantastic beings, legs, Poland, bees, faking, doctors, pus, events, imposters, roots, relief, brains, infesting, consuming, vampires, x-rays, horrors, purple, wasps, pooping, general movement, blizzards, fingers, vomiting, and documentaries than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of parasites?
Parasite dreams are notable because they have substantially less stairs and ladders, voice, relationship events, break ups, mountains, seeing a dead relative, exhaustion, dating, imagining, the night, large gatherings, laughing, love, fun, smiling, fields, stores, and living rooms than 95% of other dream symbols.
How does the dream symbol of parasites affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in parasites dreams?
Overall, dreams with parasites are more related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of parasites are more related to animals and much more related to insects than dreams in general. They are less related to distant people, much less related to close people, and less related to family.
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What are the emotions in parasites dreams?
Overall, dreams with parasites are less related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of parasites are more related to pain and more related to hatred than dreams in general. They are much less related to happiness, less related to sadness, and much less related to grief and sorrow.
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Who is in parasites dreams?
Overall, dreams with parasites are much less related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of parasites are less related to home, less related to work, and much less related to human places.
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What happens in parasites dreams?
Overall, dreams with parasites are more related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of parasites are much less related to friendly interactions, less related to sex, and less related to disasters.
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How do parasites in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with parasites are less related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of parasites are more related to nightmares and more related to sleep paralysis than dreams in general. They are less related to lucid dreams, less related to recurring dreams, and less related to recurring nightmares.
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How can you make sense of parasites in dreams?
Parasite dreams are very rare. Among other things parasite dreams are normally interconnect and lack places or locations.
Do you think this is true for your dream of parasites? How might your dream of parasites 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 parasites 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 parasites in dreams. See how you feel about parasites now, in your waking life.
What are possible meanings for dreams of parasites?
A parasite can represent something going on inside your body—you might actually have contracted a parasite. Or it can be an analogy for an illness caused by a virus or bacteria, such as a flu bug. Dreams give warnings about threats to health, so always consider the obvious. If you dream about a parasite, pay extra close attention to your health and how your body feels.
Expand on the idea of parasite and it can mean “eaten at” in nonphysical ways, such as by stress or worry. In simplest terms, it means something is harming you from the inside, and it might be something that’s too small to notice consciously. See: Cancer
The most common use of parasite symbolism is in connection with parasite meaning “someone who relies on or exploits others and gives nothing in return.” It’s an analogy that can sum up your opinion of someone or even a situation.
For example, a woman dreams that her young child contracts a parasite and she immediately suspects the babysitter. It reflects her suspicion that the babysitter’s first priority is to chat all day on her phone and run personal errands, all but ignoring the child. The babysitter is like a parasite living off the goodness of the dreamer’s child.
See also: Insects, Cancer, Disease, Infecting, Infesting, Insects, Invading, Vultures
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.
Examples of dreams of parasites
Read some real dream reports of parasite 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 nightmare and it has been haunting me all day.
Hi, this is my first time posting here. I am a white, half German half American, 20 year old female. I am in my second year of college and have great strain with my family as I grew up in a home with alcohol and child abuse. Most things dont scare me but I do have a severe phobia of parasites and maggots. Now for my nightmare. I was naked in a room with all of my family whom were clothed and just staring at me with blank expressions. Small worms started creeping in and out of every orifice of my body including my eyes, ears, and privates. I screamed and tried to pull them out desperately but they just kept coming and no one would help me. This has been causing me anxiety all day and thought this might help give me closure, thank you.
Hi, this is my first time posting here. I am a white, half German half American, 20 year old female. I am in my second year of college and have great strain...
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I was a parasite
So I had this dream awhile back. The basic way to describe this dream is I was a fully conscious single celled organism. I would consume similar organisms to myself and overall i was living a content life. What made this dream concerning was when i had consumed enough similar celled organisms to grow aware of the fact that i was living inside of a different organism that was also alive.
My host, so to speak, was significantly larger than i was. Regardless, i still found ample food to live and my presence didn't infringe on my host's ability to survive. I was happy and so was my host.
Now what scared me was when i realized, i was not the only thing consuming resources from my host. There was something else. Something bigger. Something significantly more hostile and volatile than myself consuming everything in my host. And while i made an effort to ensure i only ate things that were my size and incapable of harming my host this thing deliberately ate things to harm our host.
It eventual outgrew me. Since my diet was similar organisms to me i never truly did damage. Since this thing ate whatever was in it's way it wasn't long before it was consuming bits of organs from my host's body creating irreparable damage. It was killing my host. And it was still growing. Larger than i was. Big enough to burrow tunnels throughout my host's cardiovacular system. It left nothing but desolation to whatever it touched.
The dream ended with me realizing this thing had killed my host. The being that provided everything to me. And now this thing was hungry and i was the next largest thing in this ecosystem that could give it nourishment.
So I had this dream awhile back. The basic way to describe this dream is I was a fully conscious single celled organism. I would consume similar organisms to...
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Please read, involves Squids and weird stuff
so in this dream i had to use the toilet. i felt a really sharp pain in my stomach and when i had to use the bathroom, it wasn’t shit that came out, it was three squids. they came out with dark inky liquid and resembled a giant squid, these thing immediately began to die because it was a parasite that lives inside the stomach, i know this because i was freaking out that these things lived inside my belly, and a doctor came to tell me that these eat feces or whatever. and then he reached down into the toilet and grabbed the squids and popped each of their eyeballs, and said, if you don’t crush their eyeballs, they will crawl into the sewer, reproduce and climb back up your anus in your sleep. will someone please explain what the fuck kind of dream this is? it was so bizarre and looking back it sounds kinda funny but seriously, what does it mean?
so in this dream i had to use the toilet. i felt a really sharp pain in my stomach and when i had to use the bathroom, it wasn’t shit that came out, it was...
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Dream of parasites eating me
Warning! This can make your skin crawl! It was a few days ago when I had a really disturbing dream. I saw something moving and pulsating beneath the skin of my right arm. In my dream I'm able to see through the skin and muscles, the creature looked like a white caterpillar. I didn't feel anything at first, but the more I observe, the more I feel the sensation of how it moves. It made my heart skipped a beat and was already panicking, but I forced myself to calm down. To my horror, there are more of them inside my body tearing away my flesh, drinking blood, and defecating. I saw some of their eggs, and there's also something crawling in my internal organs. My condition is getting worse yet I'm unable to feel the pain. I feel so confused and shocked, I couldn't keep my composure any longer. Then I realized that I'm dreaming and the dream ended just like that. I wonder what could this possibly mean.
Warning! This can make your skin crawl! It was a few days ago when I had a really disturbing dream. I saw something moving and pulsating beneath the skin of my...
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I just had a dream that I killed a big mosquito and a parasite cane out of it's dead body then I tried to step on it and it started to grow to the size if a boa constrictor. I thought this was real...
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