 "This post gives possible meanings to the spider dreams and experiences."
Thanks to everyone who posted their spider dreams and experiences. I believe that the vast over whelming number of these are positive messages.I have been particularly interested in spider dreams for the last few years. The traditional interpretation often show spider as being something evil or, at least, not positive. However, I’ve noticed that spider often show themselves in the dreams of the more spiritual types. How can this be? I guess it is possible that the spiders represent bad spirits who are attacking the dreamers but, in most of the dreams that I looked at, this didn’t seem to fit. Spider Dreams – Most of the spider dreams that I have looked at fall into certain definite categories: 1. If the spider comes down from a thread or out of a hole in the ground, she often represents the Grandmother Spider of the stories of Native Americans. In these stories, she often appears as a spider or a small, old woman. 2. If the spider makes a web, it is probably a shamanistic dream. This would be especially true if the web was near a car, or a doorway or gateway entrance. The treads of the web would be the shaman’s roads in his or her journeys to the alternative worlds. 3. But, in most spider dreams, the dreamer appears to be threatened or attacked by the spider or spiders. In these types of dreams, the purpose of the spider is to assist in the flow of prana or kundalini. Just as the real-life spider keeps her web clean and repaired, so do these dream spiders. Dreams where the dreamer is bitten, or spiders enter or exit the skin would fall into this category. 4. Sometimes I will read a dream where the dreamer captures the spider under a bowl, cup or similar shaped object. In these dreams, the upside down bowl symbolizes the top of the skull while the right side up bowl symbolizes the “bowl” that the serpent kundalini resides in at the base of the spine. Color in a dream can also help us to understand what is going on. I almost always consider a black animal (to include black cats and spiders) to be positive. The black color is associated with the ability to travel into the lower realm. As for the other colors, I usually associate the colors with particular chakras. For examples, pink and green are both colors of the 4th chakra while purple is sometimes associated with the 7th chakra. Spider Experiences – Some may have very few spider dreams but seem to be spider magnets in real life. It is as if the spiders can not leave you alone. If you accept that spiders can be positive symbols in our dreams, then it is not too big a step to accept that they can be good signs when we are awake. Encountering these spiders may be synchronicity. The late Carl Jung said that synchronicity was a meaningful coincidence rather than just a coincidence. I remember reading about one woman who would going through a kundalini awakening and used to see snakes just about everywhere. They were snakes that she saw in her yard or on television, in newspapers etc. This would be an example of synchronicity. Hope this helps. | 
