Thursday, November 1, 2012

Dream: Disappointments

We'd been searching through the piles of corn for a while, the older lady and I. The children who'd gathered in the warehouse with us were complaining of hunger. The corn, of course, had begun to rot long ago, but we held out hope for a few good cobs to make some kind of meal for the little ones. Their cries were nearly unbearable. They were drowned out only by the whistling missiles that flew overhead. Our eyes were drawn upward to the windows with every bright explosion.

To keep the children busy, we tasked them with husking the cobs. They worked diligently, but I shooed them away when the older lady began to smack them for eating the rotted pieces. I know she was only trying to keep them healthy, but she was so damned cruel about it. She didn't have to call them names. They were just hungry. They didn't know any better.

I turned back to her just in time to see the tiny black spiders explode from just beneath her corn's husk. She crumpled her face and dropped it back into the pile. I reached for it, thinking I could seal it up somehow to prevent the spiders from biting us. Who knew if they were poisonous or not? When my fingers touched the silky strands just under the yellowed husks, the entire cob disintegrated. Thousands of tiny black spiders jumped toward me, opening their hungry mouths before landing on my face and my chest.

I jumped backward, into wakefulness and began to wipe the frightening things away. A few seconds went by before I understood that it had only been a dream, but that didn't keep me from turning toward my lover to smack the spiders away from him.

A few moments went by before I realized that he had only been a dream too.
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10 comments:

  1. Two in one day?!? Fantastic! For the record, all spiders are poisonous, it's just a matter if said poison can do any real damage. Sorry the lover was just a dream too.

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  2. Thanks for that horrible bit of trivia. I can now dream about acidic spider venom dripping from their fangs. I am really looking forward to that.

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  3. Oh, spiders! Ack. I'll take snakes over spiders any day. Well, on second thought... maybe not. I'm glad I never remember my dreams. Bag of spiders! ;)

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    1. Snakes, spiders and those sneaky gremlins...You can have all of them!

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  4. I love talking about dreams. I often look them up and in fact just did - dreams about keys and bully. Does your dream about corn mean anything to you? I found this about spiders http://www.unclesirbobby.org.uk/mdreamdictionaryspider.php
    Nice ending which caught me out. I thought "lover," that's why she hasn't been blogging :) but then that was a dream :(

    Good to see a post from you.

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    1. I'd like to be posting more often, but the study bug has bitten me. Maybe over Christmas break...

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  5. Good that it was just a dream (except the last line).

    I find spiders scary only when I'm out traveling, since I don't know if they're poisonous or not. The spiders of the north are friendly, harmless all of them.

    Cold As Heaven

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    1. I just saw a wolf spider under my dryer the size of my palm! And those boogers will mess you up! They die off for the winter, though, so I'll be relatively spider free soon enough.

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