Before the actual metamorphosis actually took place in the book, there was parts of Gregor's life that would cause him to actually feel that he had been transformed into a worker bug. His life had been transformed into a bug's life. The stereotypical life of a bug includes them being born, and working for their parents and getting them food and other supplies, like a bee bringing honey for the mother bee. This is actually a lot like the life the Gregor has been born into. His parents have an unnamed debt to the Chief of the salesman agency, so Gregor has to work for his parents to pay off their debt. Like a mindless insect, he works day in and day out. Like his Mom said in the book, he doesn't ever go out in the night and socialize, he just sits down and reads the paper, and then rests. His life is based upon working, and doesn't include any kind of fun, just like a worker ant or some other kind of bug.
I think that before the actual metamorphosis, he might have actually wanted something to happen, like the metamorphosis. Some kind of insane thing that would forever change things, and would allow him to just escape his hum-drum life. He knows that he has fallen into a rut of a life, and I think that he really wants to escape that. After wanting to be able to escape this life of his for so long, I think that he kind of started to think of his life like a dream. After thinking of it like a dream, he just became the bug in his own mind, no longer human. It goes to the idea to be careful of what you wish for, because it might just make you into something that, in the big picture, you don't want to be.
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