Involved in destructive relationship dreamer behaving deviously Will miss out on opportunities due to laid back attitude Greed, lack of psychological nourishment, cycles, indecisive The following, necessarily incomplete survey reports examples of insect dream interpretations, insect dream analysis within psychiatry and science, and of insects in dreams in popular culture, as well as etymological hints of dreams found in insect names.Ĭhange, regeneration, instability, flightinessĬonsumed by passion even at risk of offending/hurting others’ feelingsįreedom, independence, spiritual enlightenment, inability to settle down or commit to decisionĮxtravagance, misfortune, & ephemeral happiness The association between dreams and insects extends to insect names, some of which stem from dream-related root words. Writing about insects in dreams is also the stuff of great literature, from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to Franz Kafka’s Die Verwandlung ( The Metamorphosis).
Interpreting dreams that include insects is a practice spanning millennia, from the ancient writings of Artemidorus to a spate of freshly posted websites. Dreams featuring insects have been of special interest to medical practitioners, psychotherapists, writers, and others, likely owing to the fact that invertebrates often elicit fear and avoidance responses in humans. The search for the function of dreaming and the meaning of dreams occupy traditional biologists, psychologists, anthropologists, as well as philosophers and artists. Alternatively, dreams may be meaningless, serving no special function.
Dreams may help to organize our thoughts, solve emotional or intellectual problems, or, acting as a “cinema of the mind,” keep the brain stimulated without having to wake the sleeper. Sigmund Freud claimed that dreams preserve sleep by protecting the sleeper from external stimulation and by allowing us to fulfill our secret wishes harmlessly. Crick and Mitchison outlined a scenario of dreams as platforms for selective forgetting, or “reverse learning,” while Revonsuo proposed that dreams simulate threats and allow for us to rehearse threat avoidance. David Hartley suggested in the early 19th century that dreams might affect the strength of memories, and recent studies have since linked memory and REM sleep.
Scientists, by examining the behavior and physiology of dreaming, have attributed various functions to dreaming in humans. To appreciate the significance of insects’ appearance in dreams, it may be important to understand the functional significance of dreaming.
Human dreams primarily occur during rapid eye movement sleep (REM), but can also occur during slow wave sleep, typically as non-narrative images. Insects inhabit nearly every earthly niche but in the deep marine, and can be found among, on, and even inside humans, and thus it is no surprise that insects have also made their way into our dreams. Insects pollinate or devour crops, contribute to or wreak havoc on technology, inspire architecture or obliterate it, and advance human health or vector disease. Insects are diverse, resourceful, and resilient, serving as symbols of everything from beauty and rebirth, to pestilence and evil.
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