Dreams about Flies

Unlike ants or bees, dreams about flies have negative connotations and symbolize irritating influences.

Common thoughts about flies are projected into our dreams through these symbols. These buzzing pests draw attention to feelings of insignificance and annoyance we feel in waking life.

But the fly is not like other insects that randomly appear in dreams. The fact that we associate flies with decaying matter such as food waste, carrion, or feces is a huge hint at their meaning. Anything in our dreams that evokes images of death or decay is a powerful omen.

What do Fly Dreams Mean?

Flies in our dreams represent the negative things in our lives that are unclean or need to be removed. Think about how flies behave. They like to land on dead things, dog waste, and garbage. So what does it say that they’d be around you?

The fly appears as a message for you to get rid or something toxic. But what exactly?

The context of the fly in your dream could point to something minuscule that is troubling you, or something more profound such as sickness or bad energy. Flies always get our attention when inside our homes or buzzing around our food. What is distracting you that needs to be seen?

How Did the Fly Appear in Your Dream?

• Did you notice the fly in your house?
• You saw them coming out of your mouth or stuck in your hair
• Flies chasing or attacking you in your dream
• Dreaming of flies on your food
• Dreaming of flies and maggots
• Flies coming out of your skin

Are Dreams about Flies Good or Bad?

Not every single fly dream is a bad omen. The spiritual meaning of a fly connects the dreamer towards good flexibility, hinting at your ability to navigate throughout tough times. In essence flies symbolizes motivation & determination, its role being to push you forward until you achieve your goal.

Alternatively, files appear in religious texts, folklore, and literature as negative symbols when they show up in large numbers. They represent dark energy or spirits that still haven’t crossed over to the other side. This is why in dreams they never just show up buzzing around. Instead, they are often part of grotesque themes like coming out of your skin or eyes.

Dreams use specific symbols to point to something in your life. The dreamer must metaphorically breakdown what exactly a “fly” is. Flies live for a very short time are easily killed. Consequently, they are an image of the transient and ephemeral nature of life.

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Why Dream of Flies in My House?

To dream of a fly or flies in your house symbolizes negative thoughts or emotions that you need to release immediately. Houses in dreams are symbolic of the dreamer’s mind or inner architecture. Flies are attracted to things that need to be thrown out or put away.

The dream of the fly in your house becomes a warning for you to clean up some aspect of your life that is either troubling you or something negative lingering.

Dreams about Flies on Your Food

Most dreamer don’t really grasp the spiritual meaning of food in our dreams; a powerful symbol that gives us energy and inner growth. Now when a fly is on your food in your dream it becomes a warning suggesting something negative is feeding off of your energy.

Leaving this food out means you are not able to figure out who or what the fly could represent in your dream. Rotting food often symbolizes that you are not paying attention to something in your life.

Decay or putrefaction in dreams symbolizes obstacles, things left behind, or neglected. Something designed to give you the right nourishment to move forward in life is no longer serving you.

Hidden Meanings in Fly Dreams

Your own personal view on flies will also alter the meaning. So what comes to your mind when you think of a fly?

Your dream will either let you know this is just an unconscious fear, or something that contains a deeper meaning. The fly in your dream may appear as a warning to pay attention to something negative that resides within you, or a dark energy that surrounds you.

HELP… The flies are on me!

When dreamers are attacked or chased by flies, their dream indicates there is an idea or emotion they must face. But what? Dreaming of flies chasing you suggests pestering thoughts, behaviors, or feelings that remain unconscious to you.

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Files that attack the dreamer have different interpretations to those that come out of their skin or mouth.

To dream of flies coming out of your skin represents hidden negative feelings, behaviors, or repressed emotions. The fly has been under your skin for a long time and your dream is letting you know they need to surface. Is the fly stuck or are you pulling it out? How you react to the fly will tell you how easy this issue will come out for you.

If you are dreaming of a fly stuck in your hair it represents minor hinderances that are stopping own inner growth and wisdom.

Biblical Meaning of Fly Dreams

Flies in the bible are metaphors for evil uncleanliness, both physically and spiritually. Another name for the devil in the Bible is Beelzebub, which means “Lord of the Flies.”

There are five specific verses where the Bible describes flies as plagues, symbols or God’s wrath, or judgement.

• Exodus 8:21-23
• Psalm 105:30-31
• Ecclesiastes 10:1
• Matthew 23:23-24
• Exodus 8:18

In Ecclesiastes 10:1, the Bible says, “As dead flies bring a stench to the perfumer’s oil, so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.”  In our dream the  fly can represent foolishness can cause costly destruction. Alternatively, the fly could in fact be connect to gods wrath.

In Exodus 8:21 “If you do not let my people go, I will send swarms of flies on you and your officials, on your people and into your houses. The houses of the Egyptians will be full of flies; even the ground will be covered with them.”

The fact that flies show up in unclean places suggests your God-given gifts are not fully utilized. Are you letting your natural gifts rot away?

If you think about it when God blesses you with friendship, job, relationship or even good health and you are not appreciative, dreams about flies may symbolize the underutilization and neglect of talent or blessings.