A dream about spiders
My dreams have not been particularly easy to recall recently. This is unusual for me. I used to be able to remember three or four dreams a night in great detail. Either the way I sleep has changed or my memory is starting to deteriorate. I like to think it’s the former. What I am able to get from my dreams these days is more the general thrust of their being, rather than the fine print.
Last night, before I went home to sleep, I was in a bar and I went to the bathroom. While I was peeing I looked up and was surprised to see three quite big spiders. I was a little wary of them as they looked to have rather big fangs, and I feared one of them might start feeling edgy and jump no me. I looked at the spiders for a good, long minute, and they regarded me with indifference.
After the bar, when I got home and went to sleep, the first thing I dreamt about was those spiders. It was the same spiders, and I remember them being everywhere and absolutely terrifying me. In my dream they looked exactly as they did in the bathroom of the bar, but the fear I felt of them was elevated ten-fold. I couldn’t escape the spiders in my dream, but in the bathroom all I had to do was walk out the door.
I forgot completely about the spiders the moment I left the men’s room, but obviously something about that minute-long observation embedded itself in my subconscious. I would probably have paid them no more thought until the next time I glanced upwards while peeing in that same bathroom, but now my mind is forcing to remember them because of the dream I had last night. Why would my mind put so much significance on my seeing those spiders? I’ve seen bigger spiders before and not dreamt about them, so what was so special in this case?
comments
Leave a Reply