The Spider House
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Lucid Intent? No
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Just a fragment of a bigger dream which I don't recall.
I was in my bedroom and looking at this wooden construction which sat on or next to the corner of my bed where my CD case is in real life. It was like a shelf made of raw wood, perhaps for books or knickknacks, and might have had a few shelves on it or some odd angles. I noticed that a host of little spiders, none big, had made their little webs upon it, and I stared at them more and more closely, and began to feel kind of disgusted. First I told myself, why didn't I look for spiders elsewhere first, where I would prefer to see them? (I can't say even now what exactly I meant by this.) Then I thought, ugh, there are so many of them moving in on this shelf. Blech. I recall two or three at the very least, which I looked at, but I know there were more at various spots. They weren't swarming. It was like a scene one could find in real life of several little spiders nesting on an untended shelf. Their webs weren't the intricate circular kind but were just little cobwebby natty things.
Then I remembered--this was a "spider house" which I had put here SPECIFICALLY for spiders such as these to build their homes upon! I had wanted to invite spiders to a safe place to stay, and this was it. And lo and behold, they had done just that. Then I felt kind of guilty and stupid for having been disgusted, as if they were intruding on my own stuff--I'd made them this shelf, after all!
The spiders and their natty webs remind me of a little spider that for a time took up residence in the corner of my window in my bedroom. It eventually disappeared and I was sad. A different, bigger spider appeared shortly after, but was there only one day and then it too vanished. The web is still there. The "spider house" concept is similar to one I was mulling over recently in real life but have no intention of actually carrying out. I thought of sticking cardboard toilet paper tubes together!
