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What are worm dreams about?

Worms live under the ground. They help break down items to create soil. This symbol is identified by words like worm.

Worms in dreams is a very uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 0.4% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 250 dreams.

What are the major highlights of worm dreams?

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

Dreams of worms have a striking lack of emotion

Worms have substantially less emotion than other dream symbols. It is particularly surprising. Other symbols that are like this include pooping, frogs, infesting, Russia, roaches, alimony, presidents, bandits, Somalia, and outer space.

Worm dreams seem to lack places or locations

Dreams of worms frequently do not mention places or locations. The dream may or may not take place in varying locations. But dreams of worms simply do not mention the location, places, or settings occuring within the dream. Other symbols that are like this include hamsters, pregnancy tests, relationship events, animuses, miscarriages, acne, possessing, dating, venom, and sparrows.

Dreams with worms might be a nightmare

Dreams of worms are frequently associated with nightmares. Of course dreams that contain worms might not be a nightmare. Plenty of dreams with worms are not nightmares. But, dreams of worms are more related to nightmares than 80% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include Serbia, bedrooms, attics, guest rooms, innocence, sleeping, abandoned places, dissecting, devouring, and detectives.

Worm dreams are very social

Dreams of worms contain more characters than most other dream symbols. While dreams are often about other people and social relationships, dreams of worms are especially related to having lots of characters. Other symbols that are like this include elderly people, cows, distant people, kittens, pets, birds, neighbors, family, seeing a dead father, and queens.

Worm dreams focus on sounds

Dreams of worms have more words related to sounds than 90% of all other dream symbols. In other words, worm dreams involve the auditory world. They focus on sounds and hearing. Other symbols that are like this include buffaloes, worms, princes, finding money, giving birth, pheasants, sparrows, instagram, Voldemort, and Bangladesh.

What symbols less present in dreams of worms?

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

Explore different elements related to dreams of worms

Who is in worms dreams?

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

Animals

more than usual

Insects

much more than usual

Different roles

less than usual

Fantastic beings

more than usual

Distant people

much less than usual

Close people

much less than usual

Family

less than usual

Romantic partners

much less than usual
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What are the emotions in worms dreams?

Overall, dreams with worms are much less related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of worms are more related to pain than dreams in general. They are much less related to happiness, much less related to sadness, and less related to grief and sorrow.

Happiness

much less than usual

Sadness

much less than usual

Grief and sorrow

less than usual

Embarrassment

less than usual

Confusion

less than usual

Fear

less than usual

Pain

more than usual

Hatred

less than usual

Fun

less than usual

Love

much less than usual
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Who is in worms dreams?

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

Home

much less than usual

Work

less than usual

Human places

much less than usual

Transportation

much less than usual

Natural places

less than usual

Magical places

less than usual
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What happens in worms dreams?

Overall, dreams with worms are aren't really related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of worms 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 worms in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?

Overall, dreams with worms are less related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of worms are much more related to nightmares, more related to recurring dreams, and more related to recurring nightmares than dreams in general. They are less related to sleep paralysis, less related to sleeping, and less related to waking life.

Lucid dreams

the same as usual

Nightmares

much more than usual

Recurring dreams

more than usual

Recurring nightmares

more than usual

Sleep paralysis

less than usual

Sleeping

less than usual

Waking life

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

Overall, dreams with worms are less related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of worms are much less related to hearing, less related to smelling, and less related to taste.

Hearing

much less than usual

Smelling

less than usual

Taste

less than usual

Vision

less than usual

Touch

the same as usual
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How can you make sense of worms in dreams?

Worm dreams are very uncommon. Among other things worm dreams are normally interconnect, lack emotions, lack places or locations, nightmare, very social, and focus on sounds.

Do you think this is true for your dream of worms? How might your dream of worms 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 worms 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 worms in dreams. See how you feel about worms now, in your waking life.

What are possible meanings for dreams of worms?

A common use of the symbolism of a worm is to represent something worming into you. It’s usually something you don’t want, or even something that disgusts you.

Worms around the head and face can symbolize something that worms into your thoughts. Worms in your eyes can symbolize something that you see and can’t forget. Worms around your heart can symbolize feelings eating at you, or something trying to worm into your heart, such as a suitor or a negative attitude. Worms in your ears can symbolize something you’ve heard that bothers you, or a song or sound stuck in your head, aka an “ear worm.”

On the other hand, worms are associated with Mother Nature and ability to survive. Cut a worm in half and it becomes two worms. They’re really amazing creatures when you think about it. See: The earth

Finally, worms are associated with bait. They can symbolize something used to lure and entice.

See also: Insects, The earth, Insects, Maggots, Music

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 worms

Read some real dream reports of worm 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.

Dream about pulling worm from scalp

I had a dream where I was itching my head and found something there, I thought maybe it was just some dirt or a scab but when I pulled it off it was a worm.

That's all I can remember. I see online some interpretations of it as symbolic of negative thoughts, but the description is to do with "worm", I found one single wwormwhile trying to remove what I thought was something else.

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Thoughts?

I had a dream where I was itching my head and found something there, I thought maybe it was just some dirt or a scab but when I pulled it off it was a worm. ...

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Dreamed about murder and my house burning down

I begrudgingly spend time with a friend I've been avoiding because she doesn't respect my boundaries. I walk into her place, and it's dingy and scary, the cellar of an abandoned building. Her apartment only starts halfway through the maze of cellar rooms, and as I walk into her living room she slams shut a reinforced steel door behind me.

After spending some time with her, I say goodbye but she insists on following me. So without much of a choice I return home and she follows me. My mom realises my friend is not feeling so well, when asked she says she has a worm in her butt?? So I take her to a doctor. After we still drive back to my place, but then for some reason she gets into the drivers seat towards the end. I tell her to hit the brakes, we're going too fast, she accidentally hits the gas instead. We hit 2 guys on a motorbike.

The guys get really angry even though they arent hurt. They start banging on the car, shaking it. One forces his hand, then head into the car. My friend is gone, now my sister is in the drivers seat. Both of them have their heads and torsos forced through the car window, inappropriately close, demanding my sister kiss them to "apologise". I start hitting and punching the both of them, they retaliate but not enough. They're both dead.

We toss one of them into a gigantic sewer. The second one, still in a bag, I lug around looking for somewhere to dump it. We end up walking towards our house. My sister realises there's fire in the drainage hole 1 door down from the house.

I realise the house is probably about to blow any minute. I pull out my phone and try to dial 911 but my fingers wouldn't press the right buttons. I would dial 9,1, and then it would slip and I would have to start over. After fumbling and realising it's pointless I order my sister to try 911 again, and I rush into my neighbours house asking for help. He seems to be smiling, doesnt give 2 shits, but gestures me to his phone. I grab it, and run to my sister. She's standing there laughing and texting, so I yell at her, telling her we're about to be homeless because she dient bother to help call the firefighters. The end.

I begrudgingly spend time with a friend I've been avoiding because she doesn't respect my boundaries. I walk into her place, and it's dingy and scary, the...

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Maggots coming out of legs

I had an interesting dream last night, I had maggots coming out of legs as I itched them and a worm came out of a tooth that was suddenly rotten.

The most I can remember about the dream is first being in the bathroom, the lighting was warm with a yellowish hue and I look in the mirror to see one of my teeth had suddenly become rotten while I brushed. I brush out what looks like dark grey inch worm. After that I pull out the tooth in pieces though my smile still remained the same.

After that I found myself on my bed, a blue cover under me and I'm itching my legs and maggots are coming out or at least white worm (kind of like in those videos where mango wwormare removed from dogs). The next day I itch my legs in a different room and there's nothing coming out. I go to check my bed still with the blue cover and see that all of the maggots are there and dead. I take the cover to get ready for laundry. I wake up after that.

So what would you say this is about?

I had an interesting dream last night, I had maggots coming out of legs as I itched them and a worm came out of a tooth that was suddenly rotten.

The most I...

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A reoccurring nightmare about death by worms.

For some reason I'm very afraid of worms in real life and I have a panic attack every time I see one.

Small details (like their color and shape, the lights and the surroundings) vary from dream to dream, but the plot is always the same:

It starts with the feeling of worms crawling on my skin. I try to shake them off, but they just keep coming. They're under my clothes and in my pockets and they're endless and I realise they're coming from inside. I reach under my eyes and I scratch my throat in a desperate attemt to get rid of them, but it's pointless.

Some of them start gathering on the floor. I rush to the different corner of the room, hoping to at least stop seeing them in front of me, but then every other surface is covered too. There's no place to run or hide and the panic becomes unbearable.

Eventually they take up all the space in the room until I suffocate and that's how it ends.

What could it mean? What are some possible interpretations?

(English is not my first language, so I apologize if there are mistakes and the writing is too dramatic)

For some reason I'm very afraid of worms in real life and I have a panic attack every time I see one.

Small details (like their color and shape, the lights...

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What do you think this dream meant?…


Not too long ago, I had strange dream with a deep meaning. It was a vivid dream, but I kind of also had the choice lucid dream?

In this dream, I was in my childhood home. But I was in the bathroom next to my room. I don’t know the full plot of this dream, or even remember the dialogue. But I could feel everything…

I felt something in my nose, I reached up and grabbed whatever it was and started pulling. Whatever it was, it was fighting to stay where it is. Finally, it came out. It was a parasitic worm. I could feel it moving around in my hand, and I know what it felt like. It was a grayish-brown color. I put it in the toilet and flushed it, and that’s all I remember.

I do have a phobia of worm and parasitic wworm but I don’t think it correlates to my phobia because I pulled it out calmly. And, I held it like between my fingers as if I was examining it before I flushed it.

What could this interpret?


Not too long ago, I had strange dream with a deep meaning. It was a vivid dream, but I kind of also had the choice lucid dream?

In this dream, I was in my...

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