Weird unpleasant dream

[smokingboot]

In the dream, R had a huge perspex cage full of spiders; these were small of body and very long legged. He introduced a tiny bent stick into the cage, and somehow they started developing what looked like a civilisation to me, conveyor- belt like, with a sense of machinery and industry. The activity grew frenetic and strangely malign, until all you could see through the glass was this mass of waving spider legs, very unpleasant to watch.

I mentioned the strange malevolence, and he told me it was easy to deal with. Somehow, without ever putting his hand in the cage, he removed the stick. The activity slowed to a complete stop. I got the feeling of a nasty and furious intelligence in the cage, but there was nothing it could do. And that was that.

I am trying not to see it as my mind fooling around with allegories of the rise and fall of Homo Sapiens.

After that, we were at some kind of party where I had to turn the lights out. Everybody was in the dark, but still they cheered. After all, a party is a party.