posted October 06, 2004 09:45 AM         

I make a bowl of some kind of food, and during the night I keep getting up to take a bite or two. It's in the dark so I can't see what I'm eating but I notice that at the end of every bite there's these strange little crunches. I get up in the morning and look in the bowl and realize that the bowl is full of ticks and other bugs. I get a sick feeling and think of all the bugs that are now in my stomach and there's nothing I can do about it.

posted October 07, 2004 04:18 AM         

This dream seems to point to a situation that yu are involved in which is "bugging" or "disgusting" you. The dream suggests that you may be unaware (night/dark) of exactly how this situation is affecting you, but that you will be/are being disgusted by it, at least once you become aware (morning).

Are you currently involved in some activity that is beginning to make you uncomfortable, perhaps even "disgusted"?

Did you enter into a situation thinking it may be good for you, or that you needed it, only to find out it wasn't so good after all?

Have you blindly accepted something lately?

It is also possible that instead of being a situation of some kind, there could be some bits of unconscious material (night/bugs) coming into your awareness (morning).

Has something been on your mind? Have you been thinking about something? Have you been trying to learn something, incorporate something (eat)? Is there something "distasteful" about it?

It could also be suggested that emotions are, or will be, involved ... unconscious material (dark/bugs) often manifests as emotional energy. Could be something supressed, or even something entirely new ... not quite sure.

Anyway, just some possibilities.

posted October 07, 2004 09:33 AM         

There's definitely a situation with a guy that I could say is "bugging" me, and I've recently reached a point with it where I'm "letting go and letting God" I guess- I've had enough of tying up my emotional body in him, being addicted to the pain, blah blah blah.

However, I have reached this same point with this same person many times over the past 3 years- I get fully emotionally tied up- then decide to JUST STOP IT- usually when I won't see him for a couple months- then I end up back at square one with him later on. But every time this cycle repeats itself, I seem to gain a deeper understanding, and he and I seem to get deeper also.

I guess my behavior does disgust me at some level, because it makes me seem weak. I don't want to be this attached but I can't let it go. I love him! and that's all there is to it. But I don't want to let it run me.

posted October 07, 2004 10:04 AM         

Does eating also have always been associated with sexuality. Freud recognized that the mouth is the 1st. erogenous zone discovered by young children, and that thoughout the lives of individuals with certain forms of personality fixation, orality may remain inextricably linked with sexual gratification, and may give rise to specific personality traits, such as verbal aggression.

posted October 07, 2004 02:49 PM         

The way I see it, eating is almost always about 'incorporation' of some type of energy ... in-corporate ... into (in) the body/person (corpus). Your last examples are along the lines I am talking.

posted April 29, 2007 02:24 PM         

This time, I'm in bed and I feel something in my mouth crunching and popping. I spit it out and realize it's a tick, one of those ones that gets engorged with blood and is all fat and round, and it's popped in my mouth. I start retching and spitting and spitting blood. No matter how much I spit there is still the nasty tick blood in my mouth. And I keep feeling more and more ticks. I'm filled with disgust. I'm picking them out of my teeth.

Unbelievably, I'm still grappling with issues around the SAME guy (a Leo) that I wrote about last time, and I think the "cords" that tie me up with him are what "disgusts" me; the weakness. However, this time, I've just started a new relationship with a different man that's going really well, BUT coincidentally (or not) the SAME night that he and I got physical for the first time I get an email from the Leo for the first time in 9 months telling me he misses me! Now I'm paranoid he's subconsciously trying to ruin my new relationship.

posted May 02, 2007 01:29 PM         

I think you are right. You said, "I'm filled with disgust," and I think that is the main point of the dream. As you said, you are disgusted with yourself concerning weakness with the ex. He has left a bad taste in your mouth and you are having a hard time spitting it out. He's a blood-sucking tick.

"I'm paranoid he's subconsciously trying to ruin my new relationship."

It is your mind and he can only do so if you allow it. If you allow it, then it is your own subconscious desire that he do so.

Wouldn't you agree?