A spider landed on my forehead in the night

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I'm in my 60s, live alone and have a lifelong fear of spiders. Last night I was startled awake by something touching my forehead, reached up to feel what it was and swept an enormous spider off my forehead onto the pillow. I jumped out of bed and put the light on, at which point I realised just what had happened and exactly how big the spider was. I think it must have fallen off the ceiling as it passed overhead. I ran to get a glass and card and had to move bedding around to find the spider and then struggled to slide the card under the glass on a soft surface. Anyhow, once it was light, I took it to the end of the garden and let it go. I even went back to bed and actually slept! This is a non event for most people but an absolutely huge achievement for me. I just needed to get it out somewhere as I won't speak to anyone today. Go me! 😀

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Op wow as a fellow arachnophobic that's a horrid nasty event to happen and yet you lived through it ,didn't even kill the bastard and managed to sleep !! Well done !!

Blimey that was brave, well done! A huge one fell on our eldest DD’s head in the shower ages ago. Set off a huge phobia.

Your poor daughter! Note to self, check the ceiling before you get in the shower 🤣

I had one monster covering my eye when I woke up one morning. Aged 9. I've hated them ever since.

You acted amazingly - brava 👏

Had a huge one drop onto my shoulder. I heard it land. I screamed like a banshee. Husband came running thought I was being attacked by a mad axe murderer. You are very brave. Well done you

I'm gearing up for a false widow cull shortly we have them all over the garden

You were really brave. I would probably have had a heart attack and dropped down dead.

This is the stuff of nightmares!

Set the house on fire. There’s no going back from this.

At least you do not sleep with your mouth open

Awww really well done. I like spiders - but would NOT have liked that experience.

This happened to me once - it felt almost wet in my forehead. I screamed the house down and then couldn’t find it for ages so lost a few hours sleep. I still scan the ceiling and pull back the covers before getting into bed each night.

Ahhh well done to you! Winning at life!!

They stick a thread on to the ceiling and parachute down. I had one land on my arm in the night - it was felt cold and sort of damp. The big hairy spiders are harmless. The ones with small bodies and long thin legs can give a tiny nip if they are startled. They are also vicious to other spiders - I found one trussing up a large hairy spider one night in or kitchen - I tried to rescue the big hairy one by chasing the aggressor away and picking the thread off with tweezers but it is sticky and I couldn’t save him.

They can nip!!! Oh no. One of the things that kept me calm was internally chanting "It's north-west UK. Spiders can't bite." The one that dropped on me had fat legs and a long body, not spindly legs, so I guess the safer kind?

I actually really like spiders. I let them stay so they can get the flies. They've all got names. Marvin lives in the bathroom and sometimes he falls in the bath, so I make him a little rope out of tissue and he climbs up. He's learnt to start walking over to me when he sees me coming with the rope now.