Dream About a Spider

1, indicates a need to feel from the elements. Fear and Menace: , you are talking negatively about somebody.2, a warning signal for innocence, thinking. Creativity and Creation: , points to the messages that you are conveying or sending out.3, also this dream about having or lacking basic control of your life. Entanglements and Conflicts: , a clue for a situation where you are feeling helpless or by someone who is overly controlling or is making you feel less than human.4, points at an unveiling of previously hidden aspects of yourself. Unknown Threat: , a signal for anger, eruption of some strong emotions.

Discussing the dream with a therapist or keeping a journal of the dream helpful to identify possible patterns, states a time in your life when things were more carefree and spontaneous.

A spider in a dream symbolize fear, danger, or anxiety, stands for selfishness. It indicate that the dreamer is experiencing some form of unease or discomfort in their waking life that is causing them to feel threatened or overwhelmed, symbolises your level with your appearance. Alternatively, it reflect the your fear of being trapped or caught in a sticky situation that they cannot escape, a premonition for hope.

The meaning of a spider dream also be interpreted based on the symbol of the spider, a metaphor for your desires to get to the center of some issue or problem. For example: , indicates power, beauty and grace.

If the spider is large and ominous, it represent a powerful adversary or looming threat, suggests a resolution to some emotional issue or inner conflict. If the spider is small and harmless, it symbolize insignificant concerns or minor obstacles, a portent for your flightiness. If the spider is spinning a web, it suggest that the dreamer is in the process of creating or weaving something in their life, such as a new project or plan, points at your own self-discovery, into a new stage of life.

In various religions and beliefs, spiders have different meanings, also this dream about issues with money. Here are a few: , represents self-punishment and self-blame.

According to Native American beliefs, spiders represent creativity, patience, and female energy, a premonition for a new phase (such as parenthood, new home, etc) that you are entering in your life. In Hinduism, the spider symbolizes Maya, the illusory nature of the material world, you need to take some time off, especially after all the hard work that you have been involved in. In Christianity, spiders represent Satan, evil, temptation, danger, and the ability to ensnare one's soul, indicates the desire for freedom, high ideals, ambition and hopes.

In Japanese culture, spiders are seen as good luck and a symbol of wealth, a message for selfishness. In African culture, spiders are viewed as storytellers, spinning tales that teach moral lessons, signals your toward work related problems. In many Native American cultures, spiders are seen as sacred creatures that weave the web of life and connect all living things, a symbol for the flow of emotions.

From a psychological perspective, a spider dream represent repressed anxieties or fears that the dreamer is not consciously aware of, a harbinger for some unresolved issue which you are not addressing or are refusing to acknowledge. It also be a manifestation of the your inner desires or creative energy, a harbinger for an immature attitude, a playful mischievous side of your personality. In some cases, a spider dream indicate a need for control, especially if the dreamer feels as if they are being caught in a web or trapped by the spider, an alert for a situation in your life that requires strategy, patience and composure.

Try to identify any real-life situations that causing the dreamer to feel anxious or fearful, states some anxiety on some major change in the relationship. Consider exploring any creative or artistic pursuits that the dream trying to inspire, sadly an alert for regret over your hasty decisions. Reflect on any feelings of powerlessness or lack of control that the spider dream reflecting, love, affection, tranquility, harmony and contentment. Consult with a therapist or counselor to gain a deeper understanding of the dream's significance and its potential impact on the your emotional or psychological health, draws attention to your desire for wealth or material possessions.

What does it mean Spider in a dream?

• If you dreamed about Spider, You can put your bright ideas into practice, lots of mishaps, problems related to communication or electronics or forgetfulness are left behind. To see a spider in a dream, this dream is interpreted both for good things and bad things. While the spider seen in the dream is interpreted as meeting with an honest person who is fond of religion and fulfills his worship, sometimes it is interpreted that the person who does magic and deals with amulets, does not like to work, and that his eyes are haram. Sometimes a good word to be heard is pointed out. To see a spider with its web in a dream is interpreted as feeling helpless. The spider seen in the house in the dream is not interpreted as good. It is also indicated that the person will fall into financial difficulties and be in trouble. To see a spider in your dream indicates that the dreamer will realize his dreams, his earnings will be high, he will not suffer from hardship, he will earn a living by doing a job that requires manual labor, he will become an expert in his business, he will show great success in his business. To see a spider in your dream indicates that the person who sees the dream will have good luck, his fortunes will increase, he will experience events that will make him very happy, his troubles will disappear and his pleasure will come. To see a spider in your dream indicates that you will succeed in getting rid of the bad and malicious people around you, a good life in beauties, decrease in problems, giving thanks and praying. To be afraid of a spider in a dream is interpreted as not feeling well and going through a troubled period, being a worried pessimistic person.
• If you have dreamed of getting on top of the spider in your dream, If you give up hope and enter into different connections, you will regret it. To see that you climb on a spider in your dream may represent that some problems will increase, you will feel helpless alone, you will have a difficult life, you will be unhappy, you will be sad, you will act with anger.
• The person who sees a spider in his dream is said to earn his living by doing a job that requires manual labor. It is defined as doing a job that requires great care and effort and specializing in this job and eating bread.
• The luck of the person who sees a spider in his dream is opened and this dream is considered as fate for the person. It is said that positive and good developments will occur, and thus the taste and pleasure of the dream owner will be in place.
• Seeing a spider in a dream indicates good things, but it can also point to things that are not good and beautiful. In a dream, a spider indicates a religious person who is honest, fond of religious duties, and to associate with such a person. At the same time, an amulet indicates a woman who practices magic, someone who feels weak and helpless, or someone who does not like to work and who does not like to work. A spider seen in a dream sometimes indicates hearing something beautiful and beneficial. Seeing the spider not alone but with its web means despair. The spider wandering in the household is not good. It means scarcity and financial problems.

Theresa Cheung Interpretation

In their positive aspect, spiders represent the feminine capacity for creating something beautiful that has not existed before. Spider energy is also connected with patience and success through skill. On the negative side, spiders represent small or hairy things that create big fears and a dream featuring scary spiders may be associated with personal fears to which your dreaming mind believes you are overreacting. To see a spider in your dream can also indicate that you are feeling like an outsider in some situation or that you may want to keep your distance

A spider may represent a fear, or something or someone who makes you feel vulnerable. Perhaps you feel trapped or entangled by emotions or fears from which you cannot escape. Alternatively, are you a spider trying to trap someone else in your web or is someone trying to trap you? Freud believed that dream spiders represent the devouring mother who consumes her children through possessiveness or the ability to arouse guilt. Try to get to know, not only your mother, but more importantly, what your mother means to you. One way of doing this is to converse with the spider: hold it in your mind and ask it searching questions. Or perhaps you are feeling trapped by another relationship in your life?

Dreams of a spider in your bed may suggest that intimacy with a loved one is triggering a lack of self-confidence and fears about being vulnerable and exploited. The spider can also depict any emotions you don’t want to‘handle’, such as those surrounding a spouse leaving. It can suggest that you want to ensnare someone or something, or that you are feeling trapped yourself. It may even represent the most basic survival instincts in us—can I eat, or will I be eaten by this person or situation? Superstitions dating back to the Middle Ages claim that it is a good sign to dream of spiders. To see a black widow in your dream suggests fear or uncertainty regarding a relationship. You may feel confined, trapped or suffocated in this relationship. You may even feel hostility toward your partner. Because the female black widow has the reputation of devouring its mate, it thus also symbolizes feminine power and domination over men.

Gustavus Hindman Miller Interpretation

To dream of a spider, denotes that you will be careful and energetic in your labors, and fortune will be amassed to pleasing proportions.

To see one building its web, foretells that you will be happy and secure in your own home.

To kill one, signifies quarrels with your wife or sweetheart.

If one bites you, you will be the victim of unfaithfulness and will suffer from enemies in your business.

If you dream that you see many spiders hanging in their webs around you, foretells most favorable conditions, fortune, good health and friends.

To dream of a large spider confronting you, signifies that your elevation to fortune will be swift, unless you are in dangerous contact.

To dream that you see a very large spider and a small one coming towards you, denotes that you will be prosperous, and that you will feel for a time that you are immensely successful; but if the large one bites you, enemies will steal away your good fortune.

If the little one bites you, you will be harassed with little spites and jealousies.

To imagine that you are running from a large spider, denotes you will lose fortune in slighting opportunities.

If you kill the spider you will eventually come into fair estate.

If it afterwards returns to life and pursues you, you will be oppressed by sickness and wavering fortunes.

For a young woman to dream she sees gold spiders crawling around her, foretells that her fortune and prospect for happiness will improve, and new friends will surround her.

Silvana Amar Interpretation

Some believe that the spider is symbolic of an unkind and sneaky individual. Are you the spider building a web, or are you being dragged into one? A spider’s web might represent entanglement and the general complexities of life. Depending on the details of the dream, it could also symbolize a smothering individual. Ironically, very old dream interpretations say that the spider is an omen of good luck! Alternatively, Carl Jung felt that the spider’s web was a symbol of wholeness due to its formation (circular shape), construction and complexity. He called circular symbols “mandalas” and said that they hold valuable meaning for the dreamer.

The spider and his web may be calling for an integration of the dream’s personality leading to greater self-awareness and resulting in feelings of completeness. Therefore, the spider and his web may be considered profound and spiritual dream symbols that call for greater self-understanding and encourage us to derive meaning and satisfaction from the intricate framework and interplay of life.

Martha Clarke Interpretation

In the spider three different symbolic meanings converge, and sometimes overlap: creative capacity (the spider weaving its web), aggressiveness (having a predatory instinct), and the fabric itself (such as a spiral net equipped with a center). That said, dreaming of a spider is interpreted in various ways. In most cases, it is a negative dream because the web it weaves symbolizes the trap in which you are about to fall. It also represents loneliness, isolation, and disputes. On the other hand, if the spider has woven a beautiful fabric that produces admiration, it means that the forces of the universe will act in your favor.

It is time to intervene because you are at your full potential. The oneiric spiders can also represent the subject’s fears. Perhaps you feel trapped into a web of deception or agitated emotions. Sigmund Freud believed that spiders were overprotective mothers holding their children (innocent victims) under a sense of possession (web).

Astro Center Interpretation

An ancient symbol for weaving, and thus for creativity.

The dreamer may be going through a rough time in life, and need to find a creative solution to resolve the situation.

Dreaming of a spider can be reassuring: You have it in you to find the solution.

If the spider seems threatening, or the web too intricate, the message is that you are complicating things unnecessarily and need to simplify your life.

If you are an artist of any kind, Spider heralds a rush of creative activity that could point you in a new career direction.

A sign of strength and resiliency. Whatever hard times the dreamer is going through now, she has what it takes to get through them. Astrological parallels: Venus, Pluto Tarot parallels: The Magician, Strength

Pamela Ball Interpretation

1- There is a great deal of ambivalence in the image of the spider. On a very mundane level it is disliked, perhaps because of its scuttling movement but also because of its association with dirt. In dreams it can also suggest deviousness.

2- In psychological terms the spicier connects with the Mandala (see Mandala).

It is the ability to create a perfect pattern which both nurtures and protects us at the same time.

3- Spiritually the spider represents the Great Mother in her role as the Weaver. She weaves destiny from the bodv of her self, and is there fore the Creator. In coming lo terms with this aspect, we become weavers of our own destiny.

Dr. Mıchael Lennox Interpretation

The spider spins a web and then waits patiently for its prey, trusting that all it needs and desires will come to it. In this way, the medicine that the spider carries is of creativity and patience. This is a powerfully feminine symbol. Many, if not most, people have an aversion to spiders, which makes them a creature of the shadow.

A spider bite may indicate that an infusion of the feminine principle may be in order for your current dealings to succeed.

The irritation, illness, or death that is possible from a spider bite indicates the level of sacrifice that will be required of you on an emotional level at this time.

Alison Davies Interpretation

Weavers of fate, spiders are feared by some and revered by others. To the ancients they were associated with wisdom, and able to spin the threads of destiny as intricately as their own webs. If a spider takes centre stage in your dream, it’s a sign that change is on its way. Your life may take an unexpected turn, and while you may not be expecting the events that follow, you will make the most of them and find your true path. You could already be caught up in a drama that seems to be spiralling out of control, but the presence of a spider shows that you will take back the power and find balance once more.

Patrica Telesco Interpretation

(see Insects, Web) In men, this is frequently a maternal image (see Woman).

Ancient Grecian and Egyptian, and Native American: Fate and our ties to all times and all peoples. In Greece, Arachne spun the thread of peoples lives. Egyptians had Neith, who wove the world, and the Pueblo Indians have Spider Woman, who created the world from two strands of thread (see Web).

Feeling trapped in someone’s well-executed snare.

Creating connections that help you to finish a goal. Note that the line of networking here may not be direct, even as the spider’s web may take unexpected turns.

Nancy Wagaman Interpretation

Fear or anxiety (perhaps related to something specific in your life).

Power, or perceived power.

The element of surprise.

The idea of “catching” opportunities, experiences, or other things you want (as in a spider’s web).

Creativity.

Femininity.

Maneuverability in various situation (because spiders have eight legs).

Dreaming of this creature can represent too much or not enough of one of those qualities, or someone or something you associate with the quality or creature.

Consider also the creature’s actions, context, and your feelings about it.

See also: Insect; Web; Bitten

Vincent Wienand Interpretation

1. Demonic

2. Evil

3. Sin;

4. Deception;

5. False doctrine;

6. Temptation;

7. Tenacious;

8. An issue that raises fear;

• Black widow spider

- speaks of Death or danger;

• Red (or red-backed) spider

- means sin;

• Yellow spider

- means a curse;

• Flying spider

- speaks of a spirit of fear);

• Long-legged spider

- means long-standing issues;

• Bitten by a spider

- means venomous words; Isa. 59:5-6; Prov. 30:38 Mark 5:25; 1 Kings 21:9-10, 13;2 Tim. 1:7; Eph. 6:12; Prov. 21:9.

Eric Ackroyd Interpretation

A spider is a common symbol of mother as an object of fear or dislike and particularly in a man’s dreams. Freud sees it as a symbol of lthe phallic mother, of whom we are afraid; so that the fear of spiders expresses dread of mother-incest and horror of the female genitals’ (Freud’s own italics). Try to get to know, not only your mother, but - more important — what your mother means to you. One way of doing this is to converse with the spider: hold it in your mind and ask it searching questions.

Dream Explanations - Anonymous Interpretation

Dreams of a spider signify that you are weaving your dreams into reality, and using your wisdom to seduce and entice people into your web of life. You are becoming aware of your feminine charm, allure, patience, craftsmanship, creativity, and ability to weave a universe of possibility. Alternatively, you may be tangled in a particular pattern or belief system as you attempt to meet your survival needs.

See Goddess Athena and Web.

Versatile - Anonymous Interpretation

Spiritually the spider represents the great mother in her role as the weaver of life. She weaves destiny from the body of her self and is, therefore, the creator. In coming to terms with this aspect, we become weavers of our own destiny. Consult the entries for insects, mandala and web as well as the information on great mother and destructive mother in archetypes in the introduction.

Betty Bethards Interpretation

You create your own web or life space; you may go anywhere and weave any life you choose; the eight legs of the spider represents the cosmic energy for creating our own worlds. All too often we get caught in our own webs, forgetting they are but illusions of our own making; we seek to control, manipulate others, pulling them into our own limited realities. Trap; illusion; caution.

Ariadne Green Interpretation

Spiders weaving webs in dreams mention the creativity at hand or what is being created in your life. Spider spins and weaves dreams into realities through time and patience.

The web is the fabnc of the tapestry of your life that you create with your thoughts.

The appearance of a spider may point to a need to take on a creative project or to cultivate through some an form.

myjellybean Interpretation

Spiders in dreams symbolize feeling trapped in a stale or unsatisfying relationship.

To dream about killing a spider suggests that you are going through a period of difficulties and general bad luck.

To dream that you are bitten by a spider, represents a conflict with your mother or some dominant female figure in your life. Also see “Spider Webs”, below.

Versatile - Anonymous Interpretation

Material aspects: On a very mundane level spiders are generally disliked, perhaps because of their scuttling movement but also because of its association with dirt. In dreams it can also suggest deviousness, harking back to the innate fear of the destructive mother archetype.

Ella Freeman Sharpe Interpretation

The spider represents an obstacle that worries the dreamer. It can recur many times, as long as the obstacle remains in the dreamer’s mind.

The spider can be something that the dreamer lacks and wants very much, or it can bea person who annoys the dreamer.

See Insects.

Raymond Buckland Interpretation

To dream of spiders is lucky. They symbolize luck and great prosperity through industry. You wall soon achieve your ambition.

If the spider is on a web, then the good fortune will come from a number of different sources.

See also Cobweb.

Versatile - Anonymous Interpretation

Psychological / emotional perspective: In psychological terms the spider connects with the principles of the mandala.

The spider has the ability to create a perfect pattern, which both nurtures and protects at the same time.

Klaus Vollmar Interpretation

The image of an aesthetic or artistic person. One’s own dark side. Intrigues are planned. In a woman’s dream, indicates conflicts with the mother.

According to Freud, the fertile mother or fear of mother incest.

James R. Lewis and Evelyn Dorothy Oliver Interpretation

A common household spider may symbolize the intricate web that the dreamer has woven or a web that has entrapped the dreamer. Alternatively, it may indicate feeling entangled in a sticky, clinging relationship.

Versatile - Anonymous Interpretation

Gives gender-specific: In a woman’s dream a spider will often reconnect her with her essential femininity, whereas in a man’s dream such an image is more likely to generate fear.

Gillian Holloway Interpretation

Family or Covers’ quarrels are foretold by a dream of killing a spider.

To destroy a spider’s web is a sign that someone will make cruel accusations against your honor.

Margaret Hamilton Interpretation

One who does works of evil; research color and type, i.E. Daddy longlegs is a relative; brown recluse is a worker hiding from responsibility

Tyler Wolfe Interpretation

Spiders are demonic spirits; symbols of lies and confusion or a web of deceit in someone’s life, Isa. 59:4-5

Joan Seaman - Tom Philbin Interpretation

1. Danger.

2. Dangerous enemy.

3. Dangerous to oneself.

4. Fear of being rendered helpless.

Gillian Holloway Interpretation

This industrious insect is a presage of success through industry and skill.

Internet Archive - Anonymous Interpretation

Good fortune is on the way, especially in your business ventures.

Vincent Wienand Interpretation

See Animals Metaphors.

Tony Crisp Interpretation

See insects.

Zolar Interpretation

lucky numbers: 02-04-06-17-25-31

being bitten by a: marital unfaithfulness and being confined with it.

businessman dreaming of a: your fortune wil be devoured by a seductive partner.

unmarried woman: do not accept being married to a clinging mate.

crawling on your skin: an envious hatred needs to be unraveled.

another’s: your immature spite and hatred wil do you in.

eating a: are a very voluptuous person entrapped in your own web.

killing a: a time for great pleasure.

of a: a provocation wil lead to entanglement in a sticky situation.

seeing a, at night: plenty of money from il icit means.

morning, in the: wil be entrapped in a lawsuit with trumped-up charges.

several: domestic quarrels in a web you have intricately spun.

spinning a web: thrift and conscientious actions wil sustain the power to amass a fortune.

being caught in a: realization of own desires can be squelched with one wrong move.

children finding a: they wil be prominent in life.

tarantula, being bitten by: your safety is in great danger.

Ibn Seerin Interpretation

In a dream, a spider represents a malicious woman, or a weak, perfidious and a distant man.

A spider in a dream also represents a weaver, an ascetic or a monk. Ifone sees a spider in his dream, it may mean that he will meet a pious and a religious man. Weaving a web in a dream means becoming weak.

A spider in a dream also could represent a pleasing wife.

If one sees a spider hanging down from the ceiling in a dream, it indicates a severe winter in that area.

(Also see Tarantula)

Towers, Jacqueline Interpretation

It is very lucky for you to dream of spiders. If you kill one, good news is on its way. To see one spinning a web is a sign of money coming to you. If it is climbing a wall, success in all that you do is assured.

Jean Boushahla Interpretation

since the spider distinguishes itself by the web it builds to trap other insects; it usually symbolizes a web or trap into which the dreamer is falling. This may be a recent indiscretion, a coming temptation, a bad habit, or a warning regarding a bad business venture. Some consider the spider as the feminine figure whose affection is devouring. Black widow —devouring female; poisonous. "Caught in the web" (hopelessness).

Marsha Trimble Dunstan Interpretation

new age (see Job 8:14; Isaiah 59:5); people trying to harm you; step on it with the peace of God—shoes (see Ephesians 6:13-15); the occult (see Job 8:14; Isaiah 59:5); demonic activity; uses entrapment; evil (see Job 8:14; Isaiah 59:5).

Georg Fink Interpretation

The spider symbolizes seduction, destruction, or dangers lurking everywhere. If other symbols in the dream are positive, the spider may stand for the one who spins the lucky thread of your life, or may show focused thinking and action, and what is possible—all of which are described by the artful web the spider is spinning. However, if the dream is about a spider hanging by a single thread of its web, the luck of the dreamer is also hanging on a thread. (See also “Spiderweb” and Insects'; )

Ian Wallace Interpretation

Instinctive ability to release myself from an emotional entanglement that may have been causing me a lot of anxiety and fear

Cathleen Connor Interpretation

Spiders may symbolize a careful and energetic approach to your work. Most likely you will be pleasantly rewarded for your labors. To dream of a spider spinning its web signifies your home life will be happy and secure. A dream of many spiders means good health and friends. Spiders also represent creativity, so you might be experiencing a need to express yourself creatively at this time in your life. If you are afraid of spiders, you fear something happening in your daily life will trap you.

Mary Summer Interpretation

may reveal a conniving individual or it may refer to a unique type of personal protective measure Recall the dream’s details for clarity of meaning

Julia and Derek Parker Interpretation

What is your attitude to spiders? Most people are obscurely afraid of them, though in the Western world they are chiefly harmless. Was the spider spinning a web? - in which case are you planning to trap or entangle someone, or are you the trapped victim? In ancient myth the great spider spun the threads of destiny, and the web itself can sometimes be a general symbol for life and its complexities, in which we are seeking a pattern.

Strong, Gerard Interpretation

In the context of European culture, the spider symbolizes a woman. The dream means that a woman will control the dreamer's life (even if the dreamer is a woman).

Julie Gillentine Interpretation

An ancient and varied symbol of both creator and destroyer, the archetypal weaver of fate. Is the spider spinning, catching, or killing? Are you fascinated or frightened? Grandmother Spider spun the world into existence in Native American tradition.

Tony Crisp Interpretation

See spider under insects; web.

Common Source

These are very powerful dream symbols that can either have a both positive or negative omen attached to it. Spiders since the beginning of mythology have been connected to feminine and creative energy. Spiders are smart insects that have the ability to make a web wait patiently for the prey to fall into the trap. If the spider bites you than its possible you have been or will be affected by a feminine force or shadow. You may be the one who is stuck in the web or you have the tendencies to trap others in your web of lies. On the flip side the positive aspects of the spider is translated to creative energy that is coming out.