Jason, who is 16 years my senior, was out playing catch with my Uncle Gord in their backyard when he started having terrible stomach cramps. They kept getting worse, so Uncle Gord took Jason to the hospital where they performed an x-ray and found a small pocket of something in his stomach. This pocket, originally thought to be a growth of sorts, turned out to be spider eggs. A spider had crawled into his stomach and laid it's eggs. He was to have his body cut open so that the eggs could be removed. However, while they were operating the spider eggs hatched and started crawling all through the place. Obviously that's where I stopped listening.
Now, clearly this story is not true. I've heard many variations of this story over my short years on this earth and the fact that my cousin didn't kill himself after he had spiders crawling out of an open wound in his stomach, the only reasonable reaction to such a thing, pretty much confirms that my mother was simply trying to scare me. I only wish I could remember to what end.
As it stands, Mother told me this story at an impressionable age. Often when I'm out playing in a park with my friends I will get a flash in my head of myself keeling over in tummy pain until spiders start flooding out of my mouth or burst a hole in my stomach and start pouring out there.
I think this somewhat overlaps with the marsupial frog thing. Living things coming out of other living things is down right terrifying. I also just right now made the connection between this and my lack of comfort around human babies. I thought I just didn't like babies because they cry and poop a lot. Maybe it is because they are a living thing that not that long ago came out of another living thing. And also that they poop and cry a lot.
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haha, in searching for pictures of this post, the first google result that came up was this, this kind of goes in hand with the mouse thing a few posts down: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Do_spiders_crawl_in_your_mouth_at_night
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