need help explaining dream

**bulldog15** · 03-03-2013 10:36 PM

Last night i had a dream where i was playing soccer and took a shot and then proceeded to cough up ants? I coughed up ants in a few other situations through out the dream but i forget the situations. Can anyone explain this to me?

**SnowyCat** · 03-03-2013 11:14 PM

Hmmm... Maybe it has something to do with being part of a team? Ants rely heavily on teamwork and cooperation to survive, maybe your dream is a sign that you are being to controlling/dominant, and need to remember to be more of a team player.

Not that I'm any kind of expert on this kind of stuff.

**JoannaB** · 03-03-2013 11:27 PM

Search dream views archives. I saw at least one previous thread about "coughing up ants" (sorry I am still too new to post links, but the one I saw was like a dream from 2010) - maybe you once read it, and your mind tried to remember it?

**Darkmatters** · 03-03-2013 11:28 PM

I've read somewhere that ants represent sickness - especially if they're crawling on you or emerging from inside you.

**melanieb** · 03-03-2013 11:32 PM

Moved to Dream Interpretation

I could never say what it means to cough up ants but I would classify that as a nightmare if it happened to me.

<<<<---Hates ants.

**Darkmatters** · 03-04-2013 12:12 AM

Ok, looks like maybe I was mixing up ants with flies: Dream Moods Dream Themes: Bugs

But of course it changes things that they're coming out of your lungs... that just doesn't seem like a very nice symbol to me however you look at it... seems unhealthy.

How did you feel about it in the dream? Did it seem disgusting or normal or what?

Did you just see them on the ground after coughing and know they had come out of you, or was there a feeling of what part of your body they came from (guts, lungs, throat)?

Was there anything like a sense that something bad is inside you, or maybe more a relief of getting them out? People often neglect to report any feelings or intuitions associated with dreams, and those are vitally important to interpreting them.

**bulldog15** · 03-04-2013 12:30 AM

It felt natural, as if i had thought i had eaten ants and knew they were supposed to come out. it was as if i was coughing up phlegm but instead of phlegm it was ants.

**Darkmatters** · 03-04-2013 12:41 AM

Huh - well that doesn't sound so bad then.

**JoannaB** · 03-04-2013 12:44 AM

I don't know. To me ants are just mildly annoying. I actually did eat an ant once, accidentally. Kind of crunchy.

**bulldog15** · 03-04-2013 12:47 AM

the dream dictionary says it means there is something bugging me that i really want to get out but have been unable to. I have very bad social anxiety but have never told anyone and it has been holding be back my entire life. I think this dream is telling me to get help because doing nothing is not helping.

**SnowyCat** · 03-04-2013 01:06 AM

Huh, that makes sense I guess. I hope we all were of service to you!

**ElizVanZee** · 03-10-2013 08:59 PM

Ants represent an emotional aspect of your nature from which can come an inclination or motivation to “bug” or annoy yourself. The ant generally reflects the idea of annoying yourself with a feeling that you should be more industrious - doing something more useful and productive. By coughing up ants, it can be implied that the feeling of needing to be more productively useful is one you might seem expected to swallow or live with – but most people would not be eating ants. Coughing up ants can also indicate the idea of rejecting this particular feeling as if it were a rejection of God’s higher consciousness or intelligence (if seemingly coughing up from the lungs).

Because the common feature in all the situations you dream of being in is the coughing up of ants, the rejection of this idea would seem to be a positive or good idea. Because the situations in which the coughing up occurs are varied, it tends to suggests that rejecting the feeling that you should be more industrious may apply to various situations or activities. There is no one particular place or time for this feeling you are bugging yourself about to be rejected.

The fact that coughing up ants occurs first while playing soccer indicates that you are going very hard on your emotional nature (as is represented by a round ball) when you bug or annoy yourself about doing something more productive.