Disgusting ticks on fire

Last night I had a nightmare about ticks, which I purely and utterly hate. I think its probably the lowest of the lowest of lifeforms on earth and that they have no right what so ever to live and reproduce. They suck blood and spread diseases and look nasty. Period.

Anyway, I was standing in my house entrance behind a radiator, which normally isn't there. Some ticks was crawling at it and I lit them on fire with a lighter to kill them. As soon as they were on fire, and they were quite flammable, they exploded with a hardly noticable "plop".

They amount of ticks quickly increased, and suddenly there was a huge, as big as my underarm, crawling on the radiator along with the others. Kind of like the mothertick, or the Queen. I nearly threw up by the bare sight of it.

This abomination also quickly lit, and I took cover between the door and the radiator waiting for the "plop". I didn't hear a sound. When I looked up the floor was covered in ticks and I thought "Where's that flamethrower when you need it?" I couldn't walk through the sea of bloodsucking monsters and was unable to open the door behind me, my only way to escape to freedom.

All I could think of was to die, so I focused all my willpower on dying in order to "put an end to this nightmare". Had I only realized it was a nightmare I would probably have solved the problem within an instant due to lucid powers, but none the less I did not. So, trying to die as fast as dreamingly possible, I woke up, soaked in sweat, convinced my bed was filled with the murderous creatures of my most horrifying fantasies. I threw my blanket on the floor, jumped up on my desk and lit the lamp to investigate the presence of nasty buggars.

Luckily, they were gone. The time was: 04:20 :D Unfortunatly I didn't have any stash to celibrate my victorious moment, I had survived the gruesome attack of one of the most disgusting creature on earth. After about 20 minutes I fell asleep and dreamt about going to an empty thai-island with my future wife, living happily ever after.

A nice closing to a rough night.

Anyone else being attacked by hordes of insects in their dreams?

This from www.sleeps.com

Insect

Insects in a dream always represent obstacles that you must overcome to reach your goals, if you manage to exterminate them or they are not bothersome to you then you will meet your obstacles with strength, and be able to overcome them. Insects also represent excessive worry over certain things, meditate to find out what they might mean to you by using all the symbols in your dream for reference.

I agree with some of that. Insects tend to represent irritating thoughts in my experience so, yes, obstacles of a sort. Your insects are the worst sort for you and appear to represent parasites - things which feed off you. In your unconscious you will have thoughts like this which are "feeding off you" and preventing you from going about your daily life. In most cases you are able to overcome these with minor inconvenience. But there is a big one that appears to be the source of the little ones and you can't defeat it. You'd rather give up than face it.

So, what are you harbouring that is such a big obstacle to going through that door in your dream? What is the main source of your worries? Are you going to face it or give up (die)?

Bu