Dreaming of Ants
Ants are not only the longest living insects in the world, but they have been around for 130 million years. Their highly organized colonies and industrious nature are very symbolic in our dreams, though they can appear for many reasons.
Ants can be symbolic representing your individual strength, persistence and loyalty; or an metaphoric reflection to your nervous system. Too much movement, frustration and nervousness linking to your daily life schedule.
They can also be connected to thing that are bugging you. Depending the context of your dream you will be provided with clues to help you find the meaning.
Ant Dream Meaning
An individual ant is not very bright, it cannot smell or hear; though ants in a colony, operating as a collective do remarkable things. Ants emerge in our dreams in a metaphoric manner, they can represent a both good or bad meaning depending your lifestyle.
Ants can appear to be minor annoyances or disturbances that seem small and minor in your life. It could also suggest your aunt.
Ant dreams can bring your attention to your emotional state of mind, things that might seem small and insignificant. Examining thoughts and feelings that develops like a substructure (colony) suggesting isolation. What’s bugging you lately?
Analyzing an ant colony below the earth looks similar to the brain that accumulates lots of neurons. One neuron is useless with out other neurons, similar how the ants move to get things done.
Could this be linked to your nervous system? Ants acting as nerve cells to transmit information? Could this super organism be the individual, society or how your brain is wired? Do you need help from others to complete a goal?
Ant Symbolism In Dreams
- Superhuman strength (lifts 20 times its weight)
- Ants fight till death
- Group name: army or colony
- Social insects
- Intelligent
Ant Dream Meaning
To dream of Ants On A Wall represents minor issues or inconveniences that have been metaphorically built by you. Walls emerge in our dreams to symbolize protection or barriers that keep us safe. The house represents your mind or psyche, as the ants are minor irritations that need sorting out. They could come in the form of people, things or thoughts that are negative.
Whenever you dream of Killing Ants it represents killing off important skills or tasks, or issues that have been annoying you for sometime. Remember they move as a team and work collectively; this could be something you are self sabotaging
Noticing Red Ants point the dreamer towards anger and aggression. The color red in our dream often points to anger that resides with the dreamers mind or situations that are causing issues for them. They are similarly connected with fire ants which represents irritability and possible danger if this is not controlled.
Dreaming of Black Ants might be related to the shadow side of the dreamer. This might represent negative thought patterns, behaviors, urges that can be out of control.
If you are Bitten By Ants in your dream it represents going out of your boundaries and overstepping other people. Ants only bite when they are provoked if you get too close to their progress. Alternatively, being bitten might be related to your instinctual side, or possibly being affected working to hard.
Ants marching in a dream implies organized, uniformed, steady walking forward in either rhythmic or route-step time. What could this relate to in your life at the moment?
Ant Idioms
In some cases you can look at idioms to find the meaning of what your ant dream means.
- ants in your pants (annoyances)
- piss-ant
- warrior ant
- small like an ant (feelings of insignificance)
