Thread: Spider who transforms into a person

To preface this, I am an intense arachnophobe. I woke up covered in hives and scratches after this dream because I freaked out and started scratching at myself in my sleep, so that may factor in.

Also, my mother and I no longer speak. I haven't seen or spoken to her in over 7 years. Our relationship is shot, and not likely to ever be patched back up. Our personalities are incompatible and she doesn't respect me as a person. Obviously, I no longer live with her.

I have very vivid dreams that play out almost like films.

The dream:
I woke up in my old bedroom, the one in my mother's old apartment. I took a shower and brushed my hair, got dressed and headed for my bedroom door, and across the entire celling in front of my door was a massive spider web with a huge orange spider (the body was probably 3 inches wide, never mind the legs). I froze in terror. I could feel my heart rate rising and all the sudden my clothing felt too tight and my breathing sped up. I realized I was getting close to a panic attack. Without taking my eyes off of it for fear that it would drop off its web and come for me before I could kill it, I felt around my room to find the bug spray. Finally, after what felt like forever, I found the spray, and on wobbly legs, I approached and when I was close enough, started spraying at it. It crawled towards the door, and with one arm, pulled a post it off of my wall, which it used as a shield while dropping to the floor and slipping under the door. As it went, I noticed it turn to a more peachy color.

I opened the door, and saw it getting larger and larger, and transform into a young blond woman in a sheer white dress and run into my mother's room. I followed her in there, still spraying the bug spray. My mother heard running and came up the stairs to investigate. I cornered the blond woman in my mother's shower and kept spraying her with the bug spray. My mother, surprisingly enough, came to help me, bringing more spray and didn't question my assertion that this was, in fact, a spider, and that the only way to get rid of it was to spray it or squish it. The blond woman started shaking her head "No," and tried harder to shield herself from the spray. She was soaked in it already, and she started to convulse, and as she did, her features became more arachnid. She began to turn more orangey and her extra limbs started to reveal themselves and while she died, she transformed most of the way back into the spider. I had to move to avoid being touched by the legs as they lashed out in my direction, and my mother was hitting at her with a broom. She still had some human features when all the movement stopped and I backed away, shaking like a leaf. My mother turned on the shower and pushed the dead, bloated spider creature down the drain and left the water on so I would be sure it was gone, and then went to take down the web in my bedroom because I wouldn't go back in until it was gone.



That's when bf woke me up, so I'm not sure if there was supposed to be more to it. The dream was simply bizarre, and in light of my phobia, very disturbing. I have to wonder if it means something because I haven't been able to get it out of my head all day.