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What does it mean to dream about spiders?
Spider dreams unsettle a lot of people, yet Miller's dictionary reads spiders more kindly than you might expect. Here are his words, quoted exactly.
What Miller wrote (1901)
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 kill the spider you will eventually come into fair estate.
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To see spider-webs, denotes pleasant associations and fortunate ventures.
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A dream about spiders comes with a place, other people and a feeling, and the old books read the same image very differently depending on those details. Dreamlore takes your whole dream, spoken or typed, finds the passages that fit it in Miller and Freud, quotes them word for word, and leaves you one question to reflect on. The journal stays on your phone.
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What does it mean to dream about spiders?
Miller's 1901 dictionary reads a spider building its web as happiness and security at home, killing one as a quarrel, and being bitten as unfaithfulness and trouble from enemies. His separate entry reads spider-webs as pleasant associations. These are old readings to reflect on, not a verdict on your dream.
Where do these quotes come from?
They are quoted verbatim from public-domain books: Gustavus Hindman Miller's Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901). Each quote on this page is checked word for word against the source text before the page is served, the same check the Dreamlore app runs on every quote it shows.
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Dreamlore and these pages are for reflection and curiosity. The books quoted here are old — Miller wrote in 1901 and his entries read as omens, and many of Freud's ideas are disputed today. Take them as a starting point for thinking about your own dream, not as prediction or advice.