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Dreaming about a fly you cannot get rid of

What does it mean to dream something keeps coming back?

The characteristic narrative: swatted and returning, or landing repeatedly on the same spot.

Effort produces a result that does not last, which is a variation on the effort-without-effect family rather than a member of it. The weeding reports have the same shape: cleared ground filling again, work undone rather than merely unfinished.

Dreamers describe irritation rather than fear, and describe the repetition as the whole content.

That places this among the low-grade wearing dreams: the papers blowing away, the shop with no exit, the queue that does not move. None of them are frightening and all of them are reported as tiring.

Where this reads well

Easy to place in a family that explains the specific quality of the annoyance.

Where it is harder

Dreamers report waking irritated and unrested.

Worth asking yourself

Did it come back? How many times? Was I annoyed or frightened?

Dream interpretation is subjective. Nothing here is a diagnosis, a prediction, or medical advice.

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