First, I should mention that this post was made in a very tired state of mind. So it will need future editing to clean it up, if I care enough to do so.

Spiders have been featured in my dreams for a very long time now. More often than not they are not featured in a normal sense; rather, they are always appearing in some supernatural form.

For example, in one dream I was camping and was consequently sleeping in a tent. The spider in that dream was resting on the tent wall next to the flap. It looked at me as I lay there and its eyes began to grow red, and the brightness of the eyes grew more and more. I had a very strong sensation that I was being spied on.

In another dream I was in a group with other people and we each had a weapon that we specialized in. We were a group of people who were fighting against giant, super intelligent spiders. These arachnids were roughly the size of a horse and were more intelligent humans, generally speaking. In that dream, we were invited to their area to talk about a truce but (of course) it was an ambush. Many of them pounced down from the trees, and the fight was very, very messy.

Spiders don’t die very easily by gunfire, apparently.

In all of the spider dreams that I have had they have always been evil.

This leads up to the most recent dream. It was approximately two nights ago. Unfortunately I don’t remember much about it, but at this point I’m merely musing over the fact that spiders are a continuing dream critter.

In this dream, the spider was roughly the size of the palm of my hand. I remember that my mother was in the room with me and I was laying on the bed. I think that we had been trying to kill off various spiders in the house, actually.

Anyway, as I’m laying there on the bed I become sick to my stomech. I try to get my mother’s attention but she is more concerned about another family member. Try as I may, I can’t get her attention. I then begin to throw up as I lay there on my side, but instead of throwing up as one normally does, what comes out of my mouth is the aforementioned spider.

I could feel the sickness in my stomech, it was pretty realistic.

This thing crawls out of my mouth, down the bed, and starts running across the floor toward my mother. I try to warn her and get her attention, but she continues to ignore me and…

…well I don’t know if the spider got to her or hid under some hanging white sheets. It was around that time that I woke up.

I wonder what why spiders would appear in my dreams for so long, and what their symbolism could mean? Oh, sure, there is the obvious bits about struggling against stagnation (spiders -> webs -> caught in life rut). Webs, however, are never a feature of the dream unless the spider is using it merely for its utilitarian functionality.

They all share three things:

1. They’re (very) intelligent
2. They’re quite evil
3. There is always something supernatural about the spider(s)

Hmm..

Well, good night.

~Steph