The Element Encyclopedia

by Theresa Cheung
If a hornets’ nest appears in your dreams, perhaps there is something you need to steer clear of in waking life. Hornets represent people and situations that bring threats with them; they are a symbol of trouble waiting to happen or festering beneath the surface. Have you‘stirred up a hornet’s nest’? If you have been shorttempered lately and have a dream of a hornets’ nest, look for the problem in the way you think about yourself because hornets nest in high places. Occasionally a hornet may represent busy thinking and over-activity; your dreaming mind may be sending you the image to encourage you to calm down and take things one step at a time. To dream that you are stung by a hornet is an indication of revenge and vengeful attitudes. It may also represent some stinging remark.

Ten Thousand Dream Interpretation

by Gustavus Hindman Miller
To dream of a hornet, signals disruption to lifelong friendship, and loss of money.

For a young woman to dream that one stings her, or she is in a nest of them, foretells that many envious women will seek to disparage her before her admirers.

Islamic Dream Interpretation

by Ibn Seerin
A hornet in a dream represents a fighting enemy, a builder, an architect, a thief, a highway robber, a despicable person whose earnings are unlawful, a singer who sings in the wrong key, eating poisonous food, or disclosing something. Ahornet in a dream also represents a slanderer, a troublemaker, a strong fighter, a strong enemy that will argue against the truth, or merciless people, a vile person, a blood thirsty person, a stinging personality, or a harmful connection. Fighting attackinghornets in a dream means a war with evil people.