ARE YOUR DREAMS BUGGING YOU?

Bugging out over the pandemic? Those feelings of stress and anxiety could be manifesting themselves in your dreams — literally taking the form of bugs.

Harvard psychologist and dream researcher Deirdre Barrett surveyed 8,000 people about their pandemic-related dreams. She told WEBMD the most common ones reported had everything from “swarms of wasps, flies and gnats, to armies of roaches and wiggly worms.

“I think part of it traces to the slang use of the word; we say we have a bug to mean we have a virus,” Barrett said. “Dreams can be kind of pun-like in using visual images for words.”

Being chased by something in a dream can mean you’re avoiding something, so psychotherapist Matthew Bowes told Refinery29 your best bet is to confront whatever is annoying you right now.