Horrible Shapeshifting Turtles.
4/6/09
I dreamt I was sitting in the back hall of my mother’s house with a small clutch of turtle eggs in a box by the wall. They were hatching. I felt that I’d been caring for them for some time, and I was very pleased to see them all break free of their shells. Some were much larger than others, but they all seemed to be the same species. They stated to crawl about, and I was pleased to see them so mobile so quickly.
As I sat on the floor and watched them walk about, I noticed that a few of them were climbing up a broken part of the wall, and were disappearing inside it. I worried that they wouldn’t be able to get out, so I crawled over to the corner where they were intending to save them. The corner was filled with thick cobwebs which I thought initially were abandoned. I used my fingers to pull them aside, and was greeted by large spiders, with bodies the size of quarters scrambling out of the tangled mess.
I recoiled in disgust and horror, only to see the turtles around me were all large spiders now, and that I was surrounded. The sheer horror of the situation made me wake up with a jolt, and I searched the bed for a few moments, sure I’d felt something moving against my skin.