Prognostic Dream: Swarm of Insects

From The Hidden Powers of Dreams:

For some time before the onset of [a serious skin rash], I had an experience of seeing these very strange creatures appearing in my dreams… They seemed like visitors from somewhere else… They weren’t human looking, except that they did seem to have heads and bodies, but it’s more that they had something rather grotesque and alien about them.

On the night before the rash appearing, I had a vivid dream of these creatures flying in a swarm — a huge swarm — out of the kitchen. They were all white, and similar to locusts. Over the next few months I kept seeing them in my dreams.

Remarkably, one night I had a dream that all these creatures were dead — their bodies shriveled and their wings all dried up. The one one just lay there completely dead. I woke up feeling quite relieved that these creatures wouldn’t trouble me anymore.

Jane was right. This was the last she saw of her illness. The creatures who invaded her dreams evidently represent the fungal infection, with their numbers possibly paralleling the number of spores….

Naturally, Jane did not know when the rash was about to start, or when it would finally vanish, but the dreams anticipated both, tracking its onset and returning to lurk as a reminder until the infection’s departure.

The Hidden Power of Dreams, Dr. Robin Royston, Page 96

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This is another dream continuing the anecdotal evidence that elements in dreams can represent diseases of the body. These images can be, in fact, the primary representation of the dream; i.e., futher symbolic interpretation is unnecessary and unwarranted. The coming and going of these dreams of alien insects parallels a fungal infection.


Interestingly, there is a also a well know parallel between feeling that the skin is crawling with insects and certain disease or drug withdrawal states:

Formication is the medical term for an abnormal sensation named after the feeling of insects crawling on or under the skin. It refers to a specific form of a set of sensations known as paresthesia, along with the more common sensation of “pins and needles” like prickling and tingling. The experience of formication may cause feelings of pain or trigger the scratch reflex. Those suffering from the sensation are at risk of causing skin damage through excessive scratching. Fixating on the sensation may lead to the development of delusional parasitosis in prone individuals, rendering them convinced that it is being caused by actual insects. In reality, formication is a well-documented symptom that has numerous potential causes

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