I’m an arachniphobe. Sometimes when I dream just before I wake up (and before I go to sleep) I’ll sometimes dream about spiders, a common one of mine is that I’ll just start thinking of spiders when I close my eyes and try to go to sleep.
Another instance of this was just before this post. (and what prompted me to write about this)
So I dreamt about two small normal spiders that were living in the plug holes inside the earth (UK plug top plug) and the neutral (the left one). I walked into a shop of some kind and brushed my fingers across the plug holes because it wasn’t working (the spiders were blocking the connection) and these two small, striped, brown and dull black spiders get pulled out, both of them attached to the inside via webbing so they just hang there against the plug and pull themselves back in.
And I just observed the plugs thinking “I’m not touching that.” for the rest of the dream.
I went to sleep at a weird time outside my routine so this isn’t too bad, I just don’t get the overall spider obsession my subconscious has.
It’s not that farfetched to call this somewhere between a dream and a nightmare, but I didn’t feel any fear, just don’t go near it. (I tried to find the most inoffensive spider picture I could think of.)