• RBWells@lemmy.world
    81·
    8 days ago

    Oh my gosh, I have a spider story. For background, I grew up in Florida and have a near phobic fear of palmetto bugs.

    So one night I’m sleeping and jolt awake at that scuttling sound of palmetto legs on drywall. I throw on the light, terrified but see there is no palmetto bug, just a really big spider on the wall. I turned off the light and fell right back to sleep.

  • kabi@lemm.ee
    6·
    8 days ago

    I was lying in bed, on my phone probably, when I felt this exact feeling. I’m not too terrified of this, so I just shooed the back of my neck with my hand to make the feeling go away. Just to be safe, I thought I’d check anyway. Right in the direction I had moved my hand there was a spider scurrying away. I probably showed it to the closest window, as is standard procedure. I didn’t know to feel terrified that you can just be attacked in your own home like this, or excited that it was actually a spider for the first time.

  • halyk.the.red@lemmy.ml
    5·
    8 days ago

    Happened to me as a kid. This huge spider came crawling over my shoulder, but so engrossed was I in the show I was watching, I didn’t notice the monstrosity until it was right in front of my face. I sat up and tried to scream, but no noise came out. I didn’t go into that room again for days.