Seeds of sleep.05:05 Oct 29 2007
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Last night I was asleep and having very vivid dreams. I had not eaten a large quantity of cheese nor had I eaten fungi of the hallucinogenic variety. Regardless I had very violent and realistic dreams. A large portion of my dreaming state was dominated by the creepiest of crawlies, the spider.
I have no fear of spiders and do not consider them to be something to worry about. In fact a few months ago I think I was bitten by one. I didn't notice it until my finger swelled up to three times its normal size. I have a photo of it somewhere if I can find it.
But I digress.
Last night I was having a dream that the house was infested with spiders. Of all shapes and sizes, colours and creeds. There was a spider that could jump 5 feet from the wall towards me, causing me to dive to the floor to escape and in turn causing me to land face first in a web of a brilliant crimson beast.
The running and ducking and dodging went on for several dream minutes before I was finally bitten. I had been bitten between the small toe and the toe beside it on my right foot. I looked down and squeezed my foot and oozy white liquid poured out.
Suddenly I was being covered head to toe in spiders, in my hair, across my face and up my legs. I flailed at them and managed to knock most of them off me before I found myself tangled in the bed sheets and covered in sweat. I lay there confused for a few moments wondering where all the spiders had gone.
Slowly I became aware of a prickling between my toes where I had been bitten in the dream. I reached down and pulled something small and inanimate from between my toes. I feared that I had incorporated a real life event into my dream and I was at that very moment prying a dead hobo spider from between my toes.
Imagine my relief when having cleared out my cavity I discovered three kernels of bird seed that I had stepped on earlier that night.
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