Last night, I had a nightmare about spiders.

I'm not generally afraid of spiders, but I find it hard to understand what they mean. They RARELY appear in my dreams, but when they do, I'm usually not afraid. I deduced that when I'm not afraid of them, they stand for 'controlled fear', or eliminating a stressful situation by confronting it (like when you're killing a spider in your house).

But last night, I was pretty frightened by them. They were laying eggs on the walls, and the females were cannibalizing the males as soon as they saw them. The spiders themselves were about palm-sized and black with some white hairs.

Then tonight, while in bed watching something on my laptop with my boyfriend, a spider dangled down from the ceiling right in front of my face. This prompted me to freak out, throwing my laptop at my boyfriend whose arachnophobia exceeds my mine.

I felt terrible and had to apologize to him and explain my sudden 'flight' reaction in relation to my nightmare last night.

What's the significance of dream and reality synchronicities?