What does it mean to dream about cockroaches? |

Dreaming of a cockroach can indicate that something is hurting the dreamer. On a symbolic level, as it is an insect that transmits diseases through its paws and feces, it suggests the importance of identifying which characteristics or attitudes in your daily life are causing you dissatisfaction, especially caused by rejection and isolation. After all, cockroaches get our dislike, and they, for the most part, are solitary as a species.

Check out more details below to help you understand your dream.

Reflect on the context of dreaming about cockroaches

Are you being chased by the cockroach? Does the cockroach walk around you while you sleep or without you noticing? You try to kill her but you can’t? Or can you? Do you react with aversion and disgust to the cockroach or do you naturally deal with it?

Reflect on what the unconscious may be signaling when dreaming of a cockroach

Are you at a stage where you consider yourself ugly, bad, inferior and unworthy of being loved by other person(s)? Have you been reacting defensively and aggressively or very suspiciously towards someone or a group? Are you afraid of suffering rejection, suffering or being excluded? Have you noticed a greater desire for rest, solitude, to take better care of yourself? And to take advantage of this phase of greater isolation to be able to clearly perceive certain behaviors or mental and emotional habits that are hurting you? Have you gone through some deprivations and limitations, in the face of which you have to sacrifice in various ways?

Understand possible applications of dreaming about cockroaches:

Dreaming of a cockroach chasing you

If a cockroach chases you in your dream, this scene could be an urgent call from your unconscious to understand what is hurting you and harming your way of thinking and dealing with emotions and people. When you sincerely observe what may be contributing to this feeling of rejection and isolation, or even to the feeling of not being worthy of attention, you will see in future dreams with cockroaches that your interaction with this insect will be different. It will be an indication that you are looking at a part of yourself that you have avoided or rejected and that you are seeking to express it in a more constructive and healthy way.

To dream that the cockroach walks by you

If the cockroach walks around you while you sleep or without you noticing, this may indicate that you are not aware of one side of your personality (addiction, way of thinking, acting or reacting). So, it is important to wake up and pay more attention to what you experience on a daily basis, to your way of relating and dealing with situations, in order not to let yourself be harmed by such self-destructive behaviors, thoughts and feelings.

Dream about trying to kill a cockroach

It is quite delicate and complex to understand the message behind the scene where you try to kill a cockroach. If successful, you may not be able to look at something in yourself, killing the opportunity to at least find out which characteristic of yours is not doing you good. If you can’t kill, it could be a great sign that you haven’t managed to repress, once again, an aspect that deserves your awareness at this stage of your life.

To dream that you are disgusted by the cockroach

The way the dreamer reacts to some animal in the dream reveals a lot about how he deals with what it represents. If you react with aversion and disgust to the cockroach, it may be that you do not recognize that you are human, naturally imperfect, and that, therefore, you feel anger, envy, jealousy and have thoughts considered bad, negative, etc.

To dream that you deal well with the cockroach

If you deal with it naturally, you are mature enough to deal with a side of yourself (human nature) that is not well regarded, which is considered ugly, bad.

Fear of rejection and frustration

Cockroaches manage to live for a long time without drinking or eating, as well as having a kind of sensor in the small hairs on their backs, which tells them when to flee from danger. We can say that the dreamer is emotionally closed and even has a very defensive posture. Consider, for example, that you may suffer some disappointment or frustration if you relate emotionally or socialize more. So, this defensive instinct to avoid rejection and pain may be prevailing in the cockroach dreamer’s life.

Have an introspection phase

Furthermore, considering that the cockroach spends 75% of its time resting and has nocturnal habits, in psychological terms these details may indicate that the dreamer is perhaps in a phase of greater introspection, reserved, becoming more “in his own”; maybe because of some health problem that calls for a slowdown, more rest and a dive into the unconscious?

Also because the cockroach, by allying this connection with the dark and the disgusting, tends to symbolically show a phase in which it may come into contact with a less than beautiful facet, socially speaking, of its personality. Some behavior, thought or habit that is considered ugly, bad, harmful, such as thinking the worst, being dominated by anger, jealousy, envy.

It is necessary to measure the feelings

Hence the importance of really investigating this dark facet and considered negative, because the cockroach can represent the Shadow (those feelings, values ​​and attitudes that we do not assume because they are contrary to what is socially accepted as correct and noble). This facet, if not made conscious and expressed in a creative and constructive way, can survive for a long time in our hearts, causing us a lot of harm (making us sick, physically, psychically or emotionally).

Of course, the cockroach, in its positive polarity (as a symbol), can indicate that inner strength that each of us possesses. The capacity for resistance, survival, sacrifices in the face of a difficult phase, of few opportunities, conditions or resources in life.

OUR EXPERTS

– Yubertson Miranda, graduated in Philosophy from PUC-MG, is a symbologist, numerologist, astrologer and tarot reader.

– Thaís Khoury holds a degree in Psychology from Universidade Paulista, with a postgraduate degree in Analytical Psychology. She uses dream interpretation, calatonia and creative expression in her sessions.