Moth at the lamp

A moth at the lamp in a dream is the dream's image of attraction to a light that is also the thing that will burn the one drawn to it. The moth's navigation system uses the moon; a candle confuses it into smaller and smaller circles until it touches the flame. The dream brings the moth when a pull in your life — a person, an ambition, an idea — is genuinely bright and is also miscalibrating you the closer you get. A moth that circles and finally leaves the porch is the dream affirming that the pull was recognised in time. A moth in the flame is the dream noting that the same instinct that aligned you with something distant and good has, applied at close range, finished the creature that followed it.