Maggots appear where something is breaking down, so dream books read them as decay and disgust, and also as the clearing-away that makes room for what comes next. Finding maggots in food is read as something that looked fine but has gone off — a plan, an agreement or a feeling. Maggots on the body are traditionally taken as unease with yourself, or worry eating away quietly. Cleaning them away is read as the wish to deal with what has been rotting out of sight. Because maggots become flies, some readings stress transformation: an ugly stage that does not last. The dream often points to something that has been left too long.
Has this come up in your dreams before? What was going on in your life then?
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