Ants
Ants in a dream often stand for the swarm of petty annoyances — small worries multiplying, a general dissatisfaction that settles over the day. The older books read them as unlucky, especially in number. The dream tends to ask what minor troubles are massing, and whether we are letting the small things overrun us.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for ants, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
The dreamer of ants should expect many petty annoyances during the day; chasing little worries, and finding general dissatisfaction in all things.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of ants, is unlucky; and to dream too often of them, shows the dreamer not to be long lived.