**Kara Dreamer (obsolete) ⚧** @kara_dreamer · 09 oct. 2017, 04:58

**Kara Dreamer (obsolete) ⚧** @kara_dreamer · 09 oct. 2017, 04:58

Kara Dreamer (obsolete) ⚧ @kara_dreamer

09 oct. 2017, 04:58

Kara Dreamer (obsolete) ⚧ @kara_dreamer

gross dream stuff involving insects Afficher plus

BTW I had a very short but intense dream last night (or early this morning rather) that I still remember well, which is pretty unusual for me, so I'm inclined to wonder whether there isn't something about it I should be heeding. let me describe it briefly, but it's really pretty nasty...

I'm doing...something to what looks like a stretch of hardwood flooring. I don't remember what the "something" is, but I remember the reaction, and remember thinking that I should have expected the reaction: ants start welling suddenly out of a small hole in the floorboards that I don't remember seeing before.

**Kara Dreamer (obsolete) ⚧** @kara_dreamer · 2017-10-09T05:00:50Z

Kara Dreamer (obsolete) ⚧ @kara_dreamer

gross dream stuff involving insects Afficher plus

our household had a big problem in summer with ants, specifically the little "moisture ants" that like to form big galleries underground and infest walls damaged by moisture. that must have been what inspired the imagery. anyway...

I flail for a few seconds as the ants issue forth, and I grab for something, anything, to spray on them, hoping that if I get enough of them at a go, it'll stop the flood. for some reason all I can find is a can of spray-on shellac, and I douse the hole. The sticky stuff traps and kills most of the ants. But immediately, more ants start issuing out of a fresh hole. and then another hole...

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**Kara Dreamer (obsolete) ⚧** @kara_dreamer · 09 oct. 2017, 05:03

**Kara Dreamer (obsolete) ⚧** @kara_dreamer · 09 oct. 2017, 05:03

09 oct. 2017, 05:03

Kara Dreamer (obsolete) ⚧ @kara_dreamer

gross dream stuff involving insects Afficher plus

I remember the holes opened up in a weirdly regular grid pattern...not hexagonal, but more like a distorted rectangular grid. I'm going nuts with the spray-shellac, dousing all these ants. Ants are among the very few insects I will kill on site but even then it makes me feel a bit sick inside, and so in this dream I was feeling pretty bad about what I was doing even though I was still compelled to do it.

Finally I spray a last hole but the insects coming out, though slowed by their lacquer bath, somehow don't stop, and suddenly I see (a la dream logic) that they're not ants but bees or wasps.

**Kara Dreamer (obsolete) ⚧** @kara_dreamer · 09 oct. 2017, 05:04

**Kara Dreamer (obsolete) ⚧** @kara_dreamer · 09 oct. 2017, 05:04

09 oct. 2017, 05:04

Kara Dreamer (obsolete) ⚧ @kara_dreamer

gross dream stuff involving insects Afficher plus

there's about four or five that manage to escape sticky death and crawl away from the carnage, and that's where the dream ended.

**Kel the Purple** @kel · 09 oct. 2017, 05:06

**Kel the Purple** @kel · 09 oct. 2017, 05:06

09 oct. 2017, 05:06

Kel the Purple @kel

gross dream stuff involving insects Afficher plus

@kara_dreamer I wondered what would have happened if you'd let the ants stream out of the first hole. I bet no more would have opened up

***Beep-boop*** @Miffy@awoo.space · 09 oct. 2017, 08:45

***Beep-boop*** @Miffy@awoo.space · 09 oct. 2017, 08:45

09 oct. 2017, 08:45

*Beep-boop* @Miffy@awoo.space

gross dream stuff involving insects Afficher plus

@kara_dreamer darn, that sounds like something out of a horror film! o_O

**Kara Dreamer (obsolete) ⚧** @kara_dreamer · 09 oct. 2017, 11:55

**Kara Dreamer (obsolete) ⚧** @kara_dreamer · 09 oct. 2017, 11:55

09 oct. 2017, 11:55

Kara Dreamer (obsolete) ⚧ @kara_dreamer

gross dream stuff involving insects Afficher plus

@Miffy it does, doesn't it, but I must stress that this dream did not have the _feel_ of a nightmare. I was dismayed by what was happening but it wasn't _scaring_ me, and I woke up with a "well that was weird" feeling at worst