The Spider Bite
In the third and final installment of demonstrating how all dream interpretation is not the same (by reason of drawing out layers in dreams), I present a dark dream.
The dream:
The dream started off in a white room she was with a fictional character who told her he was going to get her over her fear of spiders. He put her in a dream where her and her parents were in the front yard of their house digging a hole of some kind. A big spider came out of the hole and bit her father in the leg and he died. The dreamer was suddenly back in the white room and the fictional character put her in another dream where she was in the front yard by herself and a huge spider came out of a hole and bit her.
End of dream
What makes this a dark dream instead of a nightmare is the significant fact that it reveals a dark plan to destroy the dreamer’s life walk, if not her destiny.
In the beginning of the dream, the dreamer finds herself in a white room conversing with a fictional character that is telling her that he is going to help her get rid of her fear of spiders. He then puts her in two dreams with spiders.
I find it interesting that the dream begins this way. The fictional character tells her one thing but delivers another because the dreamer watches her father die from a spider bite. Her fear is actually increased.
In other words, she believed what fiction told her and was worse off for it.
The dreamer finds herself and her parents in the front yard of their house which represents something that hasn’t happened yet. They’re digging a hole together which speaks of something being passed down from generation to generation.
Given the fact that the dreamer was unable to identify much about the spider (Other than it had thick legs and venom), we must look at the reaction of the dreamer’s father to the spider’s bite to figure out its identity.
Spiders typically represent dark negative energy of a supernatural nature. When her father ‘dies’ after being bitten, we’re given two additional clues about the spider’s identity. One, her father is bitten in the foot, I presume the left foot, which means his walk will be affected before some kind of death occurs. Second, the death the dream speaks of is not physical death, but the death of a vocational walk, or spiritual walk, or some kind of talent or gift that’s been passed down through the generations.
How do we know this? First, the dreamer did not mention that the spider drew blood when it bit her father or her. That simple fact would change the meaning of this whole dream.
That said, here are the three layers of this dream.
Surface meaning: Something that has affected your father’s walk to the point of causing death will try and do the same thing to you.
Just below the surface meaning: The source of the ‘poison’ that causes death of your father is a result of supernatural darkness that will enter your father’s life and has the potential to become much larger in your life if it’s not dealt with.
Life changing meaning: The incredible part of this dream is the very end. In the first half of the dream her father’s bitten and dies. In the last part of the dream the dreamer is bitten and the dream immediately ends. This is telling the dreamer (at the time of the dream) that she can control whether or not the venom of supernatural darkness will result in the dreamer’s death in the same arena as her father.
If the dreamer is able to identify specific supernatural darkness then she can take the steps to avoid death in her life’s walk.
I trust you’re able to see the difference between interpreting this dream, and the others in this series, with a preset formula verses the way I presented the interpretation. And I sincerely hope you have seen how there is much more to dreams in general than you’ve previously thought.
EB
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