Lauri in Cosmopolitan: What Killing a Spider in a Dream Means

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What Lauri told Cosmopolitan

Cosmopolitan asked Lauri and a second dream analyst what spider dreams are trying to say. Lauri started with wordplay: bugs in dreams tend to stand for something that has been “bugging” you, and spiders in particular often point to deceit, a web of lies, or feeling trapped.

She stressed that every detail counts. Spiders crawling all over your body can mean something about your body is bothering you. A web stands for something you need to free yourself from before it consumes you, the way a spider traps and eventually consumes its prey. Killing a spider is usually good news: it connects to successfully ending something in real life, such as a situation that had been bugging you or a web of lies you finally cut through. Being bitten carries a different emotion than doing the killing, so the meaning shifts too.

The article adds that your own feelings about spiders matter, so the reading changes if spiders feel friendly to you. And if spider dreams keep coming back, look for the recurring waking-life issue behind them.

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