Spiders, Leaving the Bathroom

[Sunset Dragon]

I have a dream I've interpreted for myself, but I'd like to see if others share the same or another perspective, or would like to make some additions.

I was in the bathroom, looking at a tank/pipe system on the wall, which was swarming with large spiders. I expected to see lots of thick bodied spiders, but only caught a glimpse of one that went out of sight, the rest being more like oversized daddy long legs. I was troubled by the spiders and wanted to leave the bathroom, but as I thought to do so, they began to come down on webs in the doorway. The more I hesitated because I was afraid to move through them to get out of the room, the lower they dangled, increasing the difficulty to leave.

My interpretation of the dream is that I may feel trapped in some form of emotional state, which isn't being well processed. In order to leave this state, I must go through my fear. The longer I leave it, the harder it becomes.

I suspect the bathroom represents emotion, the spiders represent fear, and the tank/pipe system reflects the flow or processing of emotions being covered by that fear. If not even an emotional state, I feel like the flow of something has perhaps come to a halt. The doorway is of course the way out, but it requires me to go through fear. I also noticed in the dream that a spider or two managed to leave the room. Perhaps that's my fears then leaking into other areas of my life. I also suspect there's something to not seeing a mass of thick spiders as I expected and dreaded, instead just one of which I could barely catch a glimpse. It makes me think the large but thin spiders could represent lots of smaller problems that are the product of the one larger problem/spider, which isn't as easy to see with everything else. It could be saying that I've lost sight of the real problem, that all I can see is all these other creatures that are preventing me from making progress when they're not the real problem.

[_dagmar_]

Fear is a though one. One may notice spots on the skin and hope it's cancer and then plan to get a diagnosis and then refuse treatment. One starts thinking about one's projects. Who is gonna take over, who could understand the complexity, who'd be willing and why would one care. And then discovers the fear is caused due to attachment and one is still not detached enough.

[Michelle11]

Think you did a great job with your interpretation. I agree with all of it and will just add that the pipe may represent the flow of emotions is blocked because of the threat you feel about going out into the world. You may be focused on one problem, maybe the emotions of anxiety/fear, when the real issue is this idea of feeling threatened. Fear is an emotion. Emotions are there to help give us a heads up but it's the situation and our thoughts about it that needs to be worked on as opposed to the emotions being conquered. Then things will start flowing for you.