"Spider-sitter" - 7/18/2019

"Spider-sitter"

7/18/2019

(I don't really remember very much of this one, but it certainly left an impression.)

In this dream, I was in an absent friend's bedroom, apparently charged with taking care of their pet spider. What I came to find out, was that this spider-was gigantic. It was easily the size of a small dog, with legs at least 12 inches or longer. (It was also much less cuddly than the one in the header pic. Lol.) For some reason, I wasn't the least bit afraid of this monstrous creature, and I didn't seem to have any issues with the fact that I'd been giving the responsibility of watching over it.

Eventually, though, the giant spider had breached its cage and was trying to scurry away.

Before even thinking, I lunged at the spider and grabbed it in both hands, knowing that - if I had let it out of my grasp, even for a moment, it might get away faster than I would be able to track it down. The moment I picked it up, the spider's legs began flailing around, desperately looking for something to grip onto. They continuously thumped against my forearms, trying to run up my arms and to my torso, but I continue to hold it at arms length. (That is what actually stayed with me, more than anything else in the dream: the feeling of this huge spider's legs trying frantically to crawl up my arms. It's enough to make my skin crawl, just thinking about it, now.)

I pulled the spider back over to its cage and shoved it inside, closing the door and latching it. Immediately, though, I noticed that the cage had a large hole in the back side of it, and the spider instantly scurried through it, trying to run away into the noteably-cluttered room. I lunged over the cage, again, tackling the spider and holding it up in my hands. Again, its legs flicked all over my arms as it tried to escape. 

Looking for something else to hold it, I found an empty pillow that was just big enough to hold the creature. All I remember, from the rest of the dream, is trying - unsuccesfully - to shove this thing into the pillow case. It was like trying to give a cat a bath in a small sink - a huge; hairy; disgusting-looking, 8-legged cat. 

(Again, just the fact that it was a huge spider didn't seem to bother me, in the dream, but I woke up pretty disgusted by the whole thing. Lol.)

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Possible Influence: My girlfriend and I have recently started watching Black Mirror, and have been jumping around between episodes. One of the last ones we watched was about a virtual reality experience that involved a recurring encounter with a giant spider-creature. Shortly afterward, I had rid my garage of a large spider, so I guess big spiders were in my brain, which is never a good time. Lol.

"Genetically-enhanced Penguin" - 05/29/2007

"Genetically Enhanced Penguin"

5/29/2007

Dream #5

(This one was just weird and random.)

The first thing I remember is being in some type of laboratory. These people had either created or "enhanced" a young penguin that was lying in an incubator. Somehow, I got the job of taking care of this little guy, after he was done...incubating? (for lack of a better word).

Later, I was in an unfamiliar apartment complex. I don't know exactly where the penguin was, during this part but, before I knew it, Ice Cube (the rapper) showed up to hang out and sell me a bag of smoke. He was pitching how good this batch was, to me, and I picked up a bag and smelled it. It smelled really good, however, when I looked inside, I could see that there were little corn kernals mixed in with the buds. He said something about that having to do with the re-plant-ability of the buds and how it would grow into some super-strain or something, with the help of the corn kernals. Haha. Hilarious.

Without warning, some psychopath came barging into the apartment and just immediately opened fire on everyone inside. (There were like 6 of us in the apartment, at the time). He missed me, but I went down on the couch and played possum, until he was done with his rampage. When he was through, I saw him turn the gun on himself and shoot himself in the head. He went down, on the couch, right beside me.

I don't remember too much more about that scene, but I was soon taking the small penguin home, driving around in a convertible with some girl in the passenger seat. Suddenly, the penguin stood up straight - all alert - as if there was some trouble coming. Before we could figure out what it was doing, it immediately took off into the sky like a missle (I think he even had a vapor trail behind him. Haha.) and arced over the rooftops of the apartments that we were driving next to. I pulled the car to a stop and we could see a light show of explosions, behind the buildings. The explosions then detonated in succession, in a straight line, toward the front of the complex to our right, which was a few yards in front of us. When the blasts reached the end of the block, there was another large explosion as the penguin came smashing through one of the buildings like it was paper, and back onto the street we were parked on. The explosions, that we'd seen a few minutes ago, had been shockwaves from the penguin, running so fast that he was destroying the brick buildings as if they were made of glass.

He came running back toward us and passed us, moving toward this huge mound that was coming up out of the ground, behind us. From this concrete mound/mountain, a swarm of giant bugs that looked like the aliens from Starship Troopers came pouring out. Their front arms were equipped with these whip-like tendrils and they were just pretty f***ing nasty creatures. We ended up getting into an insane battle, with these things on this mountain. This penguin was just zipping all around us, and owning these bug-monsters like some sort of superhero.

Sometime during the mayhem, I remember hearing weird, disembodied laughter. I looked up at the sky and the moon was a giant smiley-face that was laughing, and it melted and fallen out of the sky, as soon as I looked up at it. The laughter continued, though, and I was wondering just where in the hell it was coming from, because it sounded so familiar. My perspective then changed, and my view was suddenly scaling the side of a building, getting closer and closer to the origin of the maniacal laughter. When it reached the top, I was staring into the face of the Joker (from Batman: The Animated Series) and he was just cracking up, watching us fight these bugs, from the rooftop.

I don't remember anything else.