Wasp Dream

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Two nights ago I had a dream that wasps were crawling out of my skin.

I was on a playground with some people I know from law school -- not close friends, but people I occasionally associate with. Suddenly I noticed a wasp crawling on my right hand, between the area of my thumb and pointer finger. I brushed it off. But then there was another one, right in the same area. And then two. I continued to brush them off, trying not to freak out about it, because I was being attacked by wasps.

Then there was another one, partly emerging from under my skin. I watched him wriggle out through a pore, flutter his wings a few times, and then crawl down the length of my finger. The area between my thumb and fingers began to pulse, and soon another wasp head was wriggling out from that same spot, repeating the other's performance. I turned my arm and saw another wasp, breaking through the skin on my wrist. Another had burst through on the back of my hand.

They didn't hurt when they came out, or at least my dream-self wasn't being hurt by them. They did not sting me either. They emerged one at a time, from about four spots on my arm: slowly coming out, stretching their wings one or twice, and then crawling away. I brushed each one off as it emerged. I didn't want to crush them because I thought they would sting me. I didn't want anyone to see. I was embarrassed. I was riddled with wasps.

Dozens of them came out, though the entire process took only a few minutes. Eventually they stopped. I crushed one under my skin, hearing the sound of its thorax snapping and feeling the carcass bulge on my dermis. I had red lesions on my arm: a small surgical cut between my thumb and finger, a small pink hole on my wrists (like a stigmata), and a long red groove outside my forearm. Nothing hurt. And then I woke up.

What exactly does it mean? Why didn't they sting me? Where was I? Why with those people? Why were wasps crawling out from my skin?

I checked several sites online for interpretation, and it seems to mean exactly what you might think. Wasp signify anger, fear of being stung. But they were my wasps, crawling out from my right hand, the hand I use to write. Am I going to sting someone? Am I worried that those people might see me do it? Does my bloodstream course with wasp eggs, and now that the weather has changed, it is just a matter of time before my body releases these inner wasps, setting them out to sting the rest of the world?

This was an actual dream, probably the most vivid one that I've had in months. Wasp, crawling out from my skin. Itchy.