Tawny Segrestein, of Brooklyn, New York writes:
"I had a dream a bedbug bit me but it was big and long.
I killed it and cut its head off. I had it in a piece of paper and looked up
what it was in hopes it might not be one. When I threw it in the toilet another
huge bedbug came off the paper to eat the dead one. Then a black snake came out
of the toilet to eat them both.
Now I don't want to go in the bathroom."
Now I don't want to go in the bathroom."
Tawny, the bed bugs in your dream represent penises. Big and
long and, really, just such a nuisance! At least that's true if you're a
lesbian, which you obviously are. They creep up on you and, like bed bugs,
invade your life and your living space. They suck the life out of you just as
surely as bed bugs suck the blood from under your skin. Getting rid of bed bugs
can be a big job. Getting rid of unwanted penis is no small order,
either.
Your dream is about how trapped and cornered you feel about
living in a heterosexual patriarchy...just the way thousands of Brooklynites
are trapped in bed-bug-infested apartments, with little or no recourse. Your
killing of the first bed bug (cutting off its head, no less!) is
your subconscious mind expressing your desire to cut sexual attention
from males right off, at the source.
The fact that there always seem to be more bed bugs in your
dream scenario, and that they feast on one another is telling: you're not just
dreaming about penises, you're dreaming about cannibalistic penises.
Your deep-seated anger at all things male has manifested itself in the form of
a dream in which you say, in effect, "Go fuck yourself" to everyone
with XY chromosomes.
You are one angry lesbian.
