According to a 2014 study, insects feature in around 5% of nightmares, so you’re not alone. Have you been swatting a lot of flies lately? Research published in Patterns in 2021 indicates that doing something repetitive in real life is a good way to make sure it finds its way into your dreams.
A spider can also symbolize creativity - if you see a spider spinning a web in a dream, it may mean that you've completed a difficult task, and are expecting to be rewarded.
Spiders in dreams can indicate emotional distance - either you're feeling like an outsider, you're purposely keeping a certain temptation at arm's length, or you're protecting yourself from your own urges towards self-destruction.
“Spiders often point to deceit, a web of lies that are bugging you,” dream analyst Lauri Quinn Loewenberg tells Bustle. “There is no concrete connection between nightmares and phobias,” she says. “For example, you may have a fear of dirt and associate the crawling of a spider on the ground as being dirty if they touch you.” In that case, spiders are dipping into your own fears - though, Ezelle says, it’s not necessarily a sign that you have arachnophobia. “Nightmares about specific animals can signal fear,” Ezelle says. Interestingly, people who experience anxiety in waking life tend to dream more about animals than those without anxiety, according to a 2020 study in Dreaming.īut what does it mean when you dream about spiders, or bats, or wolves, or other freaky creatures? Below, doctors and dream analysts help us make sense of animal-related nightmares. There’s also some evidence that nightmares help people emotionally regulate their fears in their waking hours. Some researchers theorize that our DNA has conditioned us to fear wild animals that were a danger to early human beings, so when we dream of predators, we’re priming ourselves to fight them in real life. But many people believe that they're about something deeper than the last weird film you caught on cable.
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Our wildest animal dreams are certainly impacted by TV and films about terrifying animals (turn off the David Attenborough before bed, people). “Avoid watching scary or troubling movies or shows close to bedtime.” “Nightmares can be isolated and triggered by a multitude of external stimuli,” Sherese Ezelle, LMHC, a mental healthcare provider with One Medical, tells Bustle. When it comes to nightmares, cause and effect are hard to establish. Read more: What Do Dreams About Cats Mean? Here's What Experts Say (Well, unless they’re lethally poisonous, but those are rare.) So why are so many of us dealing with scary spider dreams as soon as we close our eyes? Likewise, most of us have never encountered a wolf outside of a zoo, and may have actively campaigned for their habitats and safety - so why do our dreams so often turn us into our prehistoric ancestors, being pursued across the savannah by a pack of hungry, toothy gray beasts? Though they're gross to look at and startling to encounter in the shower, spiders are no threat to us in our waking lives.
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