Bedbugs
Bedbugs in a dream infest the place of rest, and the old books read them as continued sickness and unhappy states, the worse the more they swarm. The dream tends to touch small, persistent troubles that invade where we should feel safe, and to ask what is biting at us in the very place we go to recover.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for bedbugs, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
Seen in your dreams, they indicate continued sickness and unhappy states. Fatalities are intimated if you see them in profusion.
To see bedbugs simulating death, foretells unhappiness caused by illness. To mash them, and water appears instead of blood, denotes alarming but not fatal illness or accident. To see bedbugs crawling up white walls, and you throw scalding water upon them, denotes grave illness will distress you, but there will be useless fear of fatality.
If the water fails to destroy them, some serious complication with fatal results is not improbable.
Fontaine, 1862
Denote strife, and quarrels.