Spiders
Here you'll also find dreams of meeting (or BEING) people of arachnid ancestry...
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BRANDY'S CURSE: by Wayan; 1996/10/23, a bizarre dream (even for me). After I saw the film "Surviving Picasso" (he's brilliant but treats women like dirt) I dream a sexy friend asks me to remove a strange curse. But can I?... |
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CRISSI THE DRIDER: by Brian Harp; 2003/1/16, a recurring dream character Crissi is a strange creature that has prowled my subconscious for a few years... CAUTION: SPIDER SEX, BONDAGE |
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DOCTOR VENTRIL: by Wayan; 1978/9/22, a nightmare where I'm the nightmare. A doctor lures me into his office. What he turns out to be scares me less than how I defend myself... CAUTION: VIOLENCE, ARACHNOPHOBIA |
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THE GRALA: by Eugene Jolas, c. 1934, a nightmare written as a surreal prose-poem I was having dinner with friends when I saw on the wall a huge skullbone spider. But I lost the word for spider, and my friends seemed not to see it... |
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GRIEF KIVA: by Wayan; 1980/2/16, a lucid psychic dream. In a Hopi underworld, I find even lucid dreaming can't cure guilt and grief over losses yet to come... |
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HISTORY DEMANDS PURPLE: by Wayan, 2020/2/18, a dream warning old abuse still harms me I'm in a palace spinning a purple royal gown for... a non-princess! And the silk's spinning out of my fingers. What am I, a spider? Turns out it's a spell making anyone encountering a teenage girl here re-enact a royal investiture from centuries ago... CAUTION: ABUSIVE THERAPIST (non-graphic) |
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LIU AND YI (not to mention Kong!): by Liu Bang's mom, 257 BCE, and Yi Yin's mom, c.1600 BCE; birth-related dreams Liu Bang's mom dreams a spirit is making love to her. Her husband sees the spirit is a dragon! Her baby grows up to found the Han... Yi Yin's mom dreams a spirit warns "if water pours from your mortar, run!" She does, and survives a flood, to help found the Shang... CAUTION: LIKELY JUST FOLKLORE |
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LIZARD OR WIZARD? Or, ARACHNOLYPSE by Wayan, 2021/2/10; a cynical magical dream An idiot wizard lures car-sized spiders into town. I find a spellbook that repels them, but have to hide it so my community college professors, Gandalf & Saruman, don't take it. For I'm no wizard, just a lizard... CAUTION: HUGE SPIDERS, HUGE SELLOUTS |
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MONSTERS FROM MY SOUP: by Cyberwebspace; 2010/9/30, a stubborn nightmare How'd that spider, dragon and T. rex get in my soup? I skip lunch. Dig in the garden, but scaly heads pop out to nip at me. Persistent! |
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PARALYSIS: by Emily Y. Chan, 2016/5/3 or before; nightmare sketch Had sleep paralysis early one morning while trying to wake up, and "saw" this creature or woman looming over me. She had two spider legs (if more, I couldn't see) and was smiling--with no face. Terrifying. Amazing... |
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SPIDER CRONE: by Wayan; 2019/12/20, a nightmare of helpful advice Lost in the rainforest of Olympic National Park, I stumble into the wrong cabin: the hut of Time herself. Or is she? She asks me to clean up, but spare her web... |
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SPIDER TOILET: by Jenny Badger Sultan, 2000/2/7 hypnogogic image and 2000/2/17 nightmare First a lone image on waking, of a woman cradling a skeleton; ten days later, a nightmare of spiders swarming out of my toilet, covering me... |
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TARTAN ACID SPIDER TORPEDO: by "Thomas Mountain"; 2008/1/31, a cliffhanger dream. I get speared by Irish warriors, slipped an LSD dose, chased by giant spiders, torpedoed--hey, I'm not bored! |
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THE TRAIN ON TIME CAFE: by Wayan, 1981/12/20, an epic political dream. Silicon Valley goes enthusiastically fascist. I hide in a berry patch. They build a shining world, and then... |
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