The Giant Spider - My First Encounter

This memory is just as vivid today, at age 45 as it I was when I was 3 years old. Was riding my red tricycle outside, by myself, in the middle of a sunny day. I was riding on the basketball court just outside our apartment. Suddenly I saw an enormous Daddy Long Legged spider, as big as the entire basketball court. It had a round dome and long, skinny legs and was sort of tan in color. The next thing I knew I was standing inside the hallway/foyer that led to our apartment door. Don't remember getting off my trike or anything else happening. But there I was at the door. Guess I forgot about this "dream" until 13 years later. I was in my bedroom and saw a normal-sized Daddy Long Legged spider on my wall. Well I screamed at the top of my lungs at the sight of it and was completely, and utterly terrified like I have never been before or since.

Not until I was a bit older that I started hearing about "screen memories" and began to wonder what that huge spider was hiding - if anything. It has always stayed with me but I have no memory of the event other than what I described above. However, there has been a lot of high strangeness in my life, including talking with the dead, precognitive dreams, a UFO sighting, strange, otherworldy dreams, etc.

My mother and father have been very silent on the subject. Neither of them claim to have noticed anything unusual about me when I was 3. Though later in life, my father - retired Air Force, (we were living on Chanute AFB at the time of my "dream", told me he had seen a UFO but he would never elaborate.