dreams about tarantulas?

z32upgrader

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I'll awaken in the middle of the night thinking about some nondescript spider, a binomial name I can't quite remember, concerned about its wellbeing (a spider that doesn't exist in my collection) and frantically search for it on my shelves. I finally figure it out after ten minutes or so that it doesn't exist.
I think it's just stress from having more than 200 spiders to care for at the moment. Seventy-five are 2i A. hentzi slings I'm keeping through the winter for release in the spring and about 130 others.
 

nicodimus22

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I keep having dreams that my tarantulas are eating each other because I figured it was okay to put them in the same cage.
The same dream 3-4 times a year.
I always have some 'my pets are eating each other' dreams. Dunno why my brain does that. Weird stuff.
 

Paiige

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I often dream about being at work and somehow my Ts are here with me and walking around my dealership. It's not a good time.
 

darkness975

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Funny that this thread re-appeared today as I did actually have a Tarantula related dream early this morning. I dreamed that one of mine was in a container far too small for it and I was trying to feed it but there was also a huge piece of paper towel in there with it and because the enclosure was so small it was this close to getting out and crawling away. Obviously I checked on the specimen that was the star of this bizarre phenomenon and she is fine, I'll be it showing me her abdomen since lately she has been staying in her hide more than she used to and facing backwards.
 

Jeff23

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I am truly addicted to this hobby and usually my dreams occur when I spend too much time on it. Of course that is my other personality. I really don't think I spend too much time on it at all.
 

Ungoliant

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My tarantula dreams are usually either:
  • One of my tarantulas escaped, and I can't find it.
  • One of my tarantulas was handled recklessly and injured or killed.
 

MetalMan2004

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One time, the T. stirmi and the C. cyaneopubescens made terrifying babies.
Assuming they came out healthy I would definitely try hard to get you to sell me one. I'd even sign a non-procreation contract :)

No actual dreams, but I do wake up every once in a while in the middle of the night with a feeling that I need to make sure the enclosures are closed. Haven't left one open... yet.
 

thherste

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I do that too! my girlfriend will tell me in the morning that i woke up in the middle of the night saying "be careful! there are little spiders!" while i frantically search the bed for them hahaha
 

Anoplogaster

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My ex gf told me about a dream she had where her T had a crocodile head. And it was supposed to be that way.

She also hung out with Maryjane way too often:wideyed:
 

ledzeppelin

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I often have nightmares of them getting loose and eating each other before I could intervene ><
 
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