Dreaming of Worms
worms, earthworm, maggot · mostly negative, with one happy exception
Worms mostly signal petty intrigue and illness, but garden earthworms promise health and luck.
What happens in the dream
- Garden earthworms: health and good luck, the one happy omen
- Seeing worms: disreputable people will scheme against you
- Worms crawling on you: your goals will stay very material; shaking them off or killing them means turning toward higher values
- Masses of worms on your path: a possible bereavement
- Using them as bait: you will cleverly turn enemies to your advantage
- Destructive worms, or worms dropping on you from a tree: illness, losses and bad luck
- Treading on one in your path: a jealous rival will threaten your relationship, but you'll make up
How you felt
- Disgust: the dream may reflect something eating at you
- A sense of decay: a situation may be slowly deteriorating
Ask yourself
- What's eating at me right now?
- Which scheme do I need to see through?
See also Earthworms · Grub · Maggots · Caterpillar · Snake
Source: G. H. Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or What's in a Dream (1901); F. Fontaine, The Golden Wheel Dream-Book and Fortune-Teller (1862); A. H. Noe, The Witches' Dream Book (1885). Also searched as: earthworm, maggot.