Post #2249468

The thing about today's visit to the spider exhibit is that it was not the real spiders the ones that set me the most off. Those were, after all, safely encased in their enclosures. It was the giant demonstrative resin spiders, the artsy spider shadows on the walls, the amplified electron microscope pictures of spider parts, the spider noises and the virtual reality games where you could pretend to be a spider. It was very well done, but directly touching an irrational fear at core level. I guess I ought to have believed the warning at the door (which I read but ignored). #spiders