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Subject: Adorned Spider

Angela

16:00 03/05/2000 

I was about to get into the driver's side of a peacock blue coloured sedan. John (my recent ex) was in the passenger seat.

I was suddenly fearful to get in because a huge smooth black spider lay on a single web, as if in a hammock, between the rear-view mirror and the passenger's visor.

The spider looked more like a shiny stone with glassy creepy legs. In irritation, John swatted away the web and the spider skittered away.

I noticed, at that point, that it had a large twisted brassy earring pegged through the middle of its head* (See note). I thought how the earring must have been in the place where the spider eggs were and this particular spider's head grew around the earring.

I realized that the spider was still in the car and I had to get it out in order for me to get in. I went through the back door, crawled across the back seat and opened the other back door.

The spider zoomed outside and shrivelled instantly as spiders do in sudden atmospheric changes.

It was dark and rainy outside. I knew that I could now drive, but I felt sad and empty.

Note:

I wore earrings just like this when I was 15.

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sd

16:11 04/05/2000 

I'm sure this will come as no surprise that minutes before I checked in on the forum I began a list of dream images that repeat themselves in the dreams - considering the alteration in meaning when they appeared in different locations,colors,in conjunction with different people or different "feels" such as fear/joy etc - and the list began with the spider. I assume the animals/insects are also projections of ourselves - this one with the earring you recognized would indeed be Angela. I wonder if this is a bit about taking responsibility for the web woven about you (or the false idea that you indeed are the one who has woven this web on your own i.e. guilty about letting yourself be caught in it) How wonderful that John would be the one to get the spider away from the web - perhaps a kind of gratitude that at least someone got you out of it. The loneliness of being away from the spider could be indeed the feelings one has when breaking away from any kind of intense relationship, relief, but where will the adrenaline come from - what will happen next. Also as the spider is the symbol as well of intution/ it is fitting that John would be the one to dampen this and make it go away.. perhaps also because the spider has to do with writing - and perhaps this mess with John has stolen concentration a bit for work - you blame him for tearing at the web woven (when you're writing isn't it like the web weaving of thoughts,locations,the history of each character.. you must have concentration for this and if one fine thread is ripped you must indeed do that one again somehow, alot of work that demands continuity..) You didn't want to be near the spider (whatever association you make) but missed it when gone.. What was the age of fifteen like (this earring period|) did anything happen with men that resembles now? lovelovelove

Janelle

19:28 05/05/2000 

sd - that was excellent! i got the impression though that john ripped at the web with irritation because he didn't want you to see it. like it represented his deception or the tangle he had created... a web of deception came to mind. nevertheless you were the one that ultimately dealt with it. great dream angela!

Janelle

Angela

03:46 06/05/2000 

Hi Sd and Janelle.

Thanks very, very much!

I have been thinking on this dream a fair bit. This is what has come to mind: The spider is lazing on a hammock (me procrastinating with my writing) between the visor (block!) and the rearview mirror (looking back!). I've been unable to thread more than a single web because that writing instinct is lolling between my block and the inclination to look back (which I have not, btw). The destruction of this relationship has forced me to stop lazing, or put all my weight on one single thing.

And, ironically, I began writing something completely different from my novel yesterday. There has been so much anxiety and panic over not being unable to get back into the book. I've lost all continuity and clarity. Going somewhere else seems to be the answer for now.

I think you are very right sd, about how that empty feeling would come because of the breaking away. And I'm wondering what made you say 'deception' Janelle. Bang-on! Just don't know how you figured that part out...

In thinking on the notion that spiders are instinct, I have always thought that having that particular sense was a good thing. But maybe this is bad instinct. Maybe the intuitive feelings I had around this person were bad ones and I have been unable to decipher the good and the bad...?

The earring, 15 years old. These are not ringing bells. Just ears! :)

Thanks again

Angela.

guest

16:40 06/05/2000 

hi angela,

maybe the demise of the relationship or how you have been feeling is akin to feelings you had as a 15 year old. i.e. My throwback age is 14 years - a time of insecurity and confusion. I got the "deception" thing from the web and how John reacted to you looking at it. just came straight to mind. Why was he so irritated by it, was my line of thinking....web of deception - his deception.

cya,

Janelle

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