Weird dream last night!
Last night I had a dream that was part anxiety dream & part just general weirdness! Heh. Shawn & I were upstairs at home, in the master bedroom. I walked out to the hallway & saw a very large, scary spider secured to a piece of cardboard or thin wooden shelving board by a sticky substance produced by tiny ants! It reminded me of how Gulliver was tied down by all the Lilliputians. I don't know how the ants accomplished this feat, but it was amazing. I think the spider was dead but I'm not sure.
The scariest part of the dream was when I opened the door to one of the other 2 bedrooms upstairs. As soon as I did that, 2 additional spiders came out of hiding (somewhere in the hallway), dashed into the spare bedroom, and took up hiding! Being an arachnophobe, I was freaking out something awful!! Shawn showed up then, with a science fiction-y type of ray gun (?) and used it to blast the spiders to smithereens. Whew! I was so relieved!
During the dream, I don't know if the ants told me, Shawn told me, or I just "knew," but apparently the spiders were called "mule spiders." I checked online & there's no spider w/ that common name. Some types of tarantulas are called "horse spiders" but the ones in the dream didn't look like that. They did, however, resemble "camel spiders," a common name used for a number of different spiders in the Solifugae family, whose name in Latin means "those who flee from the sun." (I didn't know that until just now).
The scariest part of the dream was when I opened the door to one of the other 2 bedrooms upstairs. As soon as I did that, 2 additional spiders came out of hiding (somewhere in the hallway), dashed into the spare bedroom, and took up hiding! Being an arachnophobe, I was freaking out something awful!! Shawn showed up then, with a science fiction-y type of ray gun (?) and used it to blast the spiders to smithereens. Whew! I was so relieved!
During the dream, I don't know if the ants told me, Shawn told me, or I just "knew," but apparently the spiders were called "mule spiders." I checked online & there's no spider w/ that common name. Some types of tarantulas are called "horse spiders" but the ones in the dream didn't look like that. They did, however, resemble "camel spiders," a common name used for a number of different spiders in the Solifugae family, whose name in Latin means "those who flee from the sun." (I didn't know that until just now).