What Does Dreaming of a Maggot Swarm Mean?
Traditional Interpretation
In the tradition of Ibn Sirin and al-Nabulsi, seeing a swarm of maggots in a dream can most often point to the many small troubles or gossip surrounding a person, or to a large family with whom one shares one's livelihood. According to some interpreters, maggots on something decaying can herald the slow coming to light of a neglected matter or of unlawful earnings.
Psychological View
In modern psychology, a swarm of maggots can often be read as the collective reflection of accumulated, suppressed anxieties and small "gnawing" thoughts; it can symbolize the feeling that something is quietly rotting from within. It also connects to the archetype of transformation and rebirth: just as the grub becomes the butterfly, it can point to a maturing that comes at the end of an uncomfortable phase.
By Context
For a Single Person
For a single person, seeing a swarm of maggots can point to emotional bonds not yet mature but capable of developing in time, or to the discomfort they feel at the gossip around them.
For a Married Person
For a married person, a swarm of maggots can symbolize growing family responsibilities, multiplying small worries over livelihood, or the weariness that comes with increasing abundance.
White / Clean Maggots
Seeing a swarm of white, clean-looking maggots can, in the traditional reading, point to relatively harmless troubles, or to a situation that will soon be cleaned up and set right.
Cleaning Away / Killing the Maggots
Cleaning the maggots away, crushing them, or removing them can point to the dreamer's resolve to free themselves of gnawing anxieties and their intention to solve a matter at its root.
Maggots on Something Rotten, According to Ibn Sirin
In the Ibn Sirin tradition, seeing a swarm of maggots on spoiled food or on a body can be a herald of a neglected matter, or of unlawful earnings, slowly coming to light.