I've had my fair share of spider related dreams. I actually used to have dreams about spiders.
I agree with eaglevision and altarfire's interpretations for the most part. The spider is probably a warning from you subconscious mind telling you that your fostering negative traits. It may be a sign that part of you has begun to see the glass as half empty. It may show that there is a sadness growing in you. This is represented by the fact that spiders make you unhappy and the abnormally large size of the spiders.
In the dream you tried to use 'unhappiness' to defeat your nemesis. The nemesis is the small spider. You took the one thing from the spider that makes us all happy, 'life'. It's possible this means that you use negativity in your daily life as an emotional defense. If this is the case then the dream is telling you that using the act of taking someone else's hapiness as a defense mechanism has begun to rebound upon you. This is represented by the larger spiders hovering above you. Instead of defeating the spiders, as you subtly noted, your actions caused them to multiple. This is because any nemesis, gains power from unhappiness, even their own unhappiness. The key is to defeat your adversaries with love. Be like Cupid, the weapon you use to defeat evil shouldn't take one's joy, but instead the weapon you use to defeat the enemy should give to them what you want to be given; hapiness. If you give unhappiness you gain greater unhappiness as represented by the larger spiders, but it's possible that if you give love and life you'll receive greater love in return. In essence Cupid's arrow defeats the enemy with love and love makes us happy.
If your experience is anything like my own you'll find that by taming the beast (spider) with the beautiful harp of joy you'll receive happiness. I'm not saying to accept the presence of spiders or to make the spider your pet, just that to change the archetype we must change our self.
I also think that unhappy themes may represent a form of mental deterioration. In the same way we must exercise the body we must also exercise the mind through prayer (I recommend Christian prayer ) and meditation and positive thinking. The negative themes may be saying that your mind is out of shape and you need to focus it.
eaglevision, altarfire are your interpretations based on personal experience?
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