strange dreams are made of this

[anotheranon]

Another cracked out one to fling to the masses.....

I dreamt I was a little girl and absolutely, blindingly terrified by a huge spider that had taken up residence in a window frame in my house. Think of a black widow the size of a tarantula. Nothing new there - anyone who knows me IRL knows that I fear and loathe spiders beyond reason.

My sister, however, was fascinated and spent more and more time looking at it. I kept screaming at her to leave it alone (indeed, I screamed through most of this dream - it's a wonder I wasn't doing it in my sleep). Then I found out it had given her ice cream made with it's venom and she was addicted.

I tried to get her off the ice cream, but then I tried it and got addicted too. All the while the spider kept getting bigger, until it was the size of a serving platter.

Too late I realized it was fattening us up to feed us to it's egg sac, and the scene shifted from me being one of the children to being outside the scene, watching this huge spider weave a web around the girls and lay it's eggs on them....

I woke up in a cold sweat this morning. I fscking hate spiders - HATE THEM!

And what do I see on TV tonight? Huge honkin' spiders, in "Guns Germs and Steel" demonstrating one of the few sources of dietary protein for Papua New Guineans (I'd rather starve, thank you)....

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[wendyzski.livejournal.com]

I taped GGS and watched it tonight. I have always meant to read it, but haven't gotten around to it.

I foun dteh show a little broad, but generally interesting. And it does a very good job of carefully avoiding any racial references.

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

I just watched my Replayed version - if it's anything like the book, it will start out with this broad view of the past and narrow down to specific instances that illustrate his theories.

Re: racial theories - one thing the book states (and I think Diamond was emphatically clear about it in the show) is that racial theories are a load of bunk. Quick version: It's the geography, stupid!

GSS

[shemhazai.livejournal.com]

Guns, Germs & Steel on TV? Cool! I'll have to go look that up.

I hate dreams that leave you sweating like that! I had an interesting one a couple of nights back, where I came across the last remaining tribe of Neanderthals. They'd lived for thousands of years, but had no children, and were the last of their kind. They were not what I expected; they were actually quite beautiful. Not the brutish, low-browed depictions you see in Museum dioramas. And they had a lovely mellifluous language. The woman I got to know was named Aramariregina. I kept trying to get her to talk about her language, culture, music & so on, but it was tabu for them to talk about any of these things with outsiders. Very frustrating.

So, why do you dislike spiders so much? Bad childhood experieces? Worse than cockroaches?

Re: GSS

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

I highly recommend GSS. 2nd part runs on local PBS tonight and I'm eager to see how it turns out.

Re: spiders: I think my phobia started in earnest around kindergarten age when a childhood friend chased me around her yard holding a daddy long-legs. Yes, I know they're harmless but I was five and didn't know that and was deeply freaked at the idea that it might get it's crawly legs on me!!

Now I'd have to say it's almost more of an intellectual reaction - I find spiders fascinating but don't know enough about them to know which ones are poisonous. And I still have a primal reaction to the crawly legs - on bad days I can't even look at photos of spiders :( Sad but true.

Regular cockroaches I can deal with. Southern racing roaches with wings (http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/MG228), not so much.