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October 31, 2024 9:17 PM Subscribe
Spider showed up at school with no pants on! Spider has to give a speech in front of all these other spiders and he hasn't even practiced or prepared any slides! Spider is driving a car but the car keeps getting smaller and smaller!
Honestly I really hope spiders don't dream like humans do. I hope all their dreams are nice dreams
posted by potrzebie at 10:41 PM on October 31 [3 favorites]
Honestly I really hope spiders don't dream like humans do. I hope all their dreams are nice dreams
posted by potrzebie at 10:41 PM on October 31 [3 favorites]
All its pedipalps are crumbling
posted by aubilenon at 11:16 PM on October 31 [5 favorites]
posted by aubilenon at 11:16 PM on October 31 [5 favorites]
Nooo not the pedipalps dream!!
Spiders ONLY dream the fattest and yummiest fly just flew right into their web and they've got to wrap it up in silk and eat it, every night. And they wake up all "YAWN, I just had the most AMAZING dream, oh my god I slept like a baby, what about you Stanley" and Stanley on the next web over is "yeah me too Myrtle, dreams are the best, just make us better at the work of our lives, making webs, just a nice little break in our sleep from hours of honest toil to experience the best web successes."
Then they both kind of stare into the middle distance for a minute and they're like, welp, better get on this WEB, not gonna spin itself...
IDK maybe I actually don't want spiders to dream. Maybe it's better if they don't
posted by potrzebie at 11:41 PM on October 31 [1 favorite]
Spiders ONLY dream the fattest and yummiest fly just flew right into their web and they've got to wrap it up in silk and eat it, every night. And they wake up all "YAWN, I just had the most AMAZING dream, oh my god I slept like a baby, what about you Stanley" and Stanley on the next web over is "yeah me too Myrtle, dreams are the best, just make us better at the work of our lives, making webs, just a nice little break in our sleep from hours of honest toil to experience the best web successes."
Then they both kind of stare into the middle distance for a minute and they're like, welp, better get on this WEB, not gonna spin itself...
IDK maybe I actually don't want spiders to dream. Maybe it's better if they don't
posted by potrzebie at 11:41 PM on October 31 [1 favorite]
Little spider
Spide-ing sadly
In the webly
Light of leaves!
What’s inside a
Spide’s mentadly
Makes its hebly
Full of grieves?
Little spider
Legged and lonely
In the bonely
Way of thieves
Where’s the fly-da
On the phone-ly?
Mervyn Peake
posted by Phanx at 12:25 AM on November 1 [6 favorites]
Spide-ing sadly
In the webly
Light of leaves!
What’s inside a
Spide’s mentadly
Makes its hebly
Full of grieves?
Little spider
Legged and lonely
In the bonely
Way of thieves
Where’s the fly-da
On the phone-ly?
Mervyn Peake
posted by Phanx at 12:25 AM on November 1 [6 favorites]
Spiders sleep?
posted by straight at 1:49 AM on November 1 [1 favorite]
posted by straight at 1:49 AM on November 1 [1 favorite]
"(sob) I dreamed I thought I wove SOME PIG into my web but when I looked, it read DIE WILBUR YOU PIG (sob) and they took Wilbur away and they killed him and ate him and they left me a drop of his blood and he was delicious BWAAAAH-HAAAH-HAAH" (sobbing uncontrollably, wipes all 8 eyes)
- Charlotte
posted by zaixfeep at 1:52 AM on November 1 [3 favorites]
- Charlotte
posted by zaixfeep at 1:52 AM on November 1 [3 favorites]
Oh don't sleep deprive spiders! How mean is that? Though fascinating, obviously.
posted by paduasoy at 2:26 AM on November 1
posted by paduasoy at 2:26 AM on November 1
Spider dream being person... but maybe person dreaming be spider!
posted by quinndexter at 3:16 AM on November 1 [1 favorite]
posted by quinndexter at 3:16 AM on November 1 [1 favorite]
This is ignoring the real question: how many humans does the average spider eat in its sleep?
posted by eykal at 4:13 AM on November 1 [3 favorites]
posted by eykal at 4:13 AM on November 1 [3 favorites]
I'm here for all the jokes, I really am, but this line of research is incredibly cool, and I especially admire this:
But I think research is showing us again and again, again that all these complex things have always been there in other forms. And it's not just that they evolve with humans, like, boom, everything's super complicated and complex and no one else does this. And seeing that, it's also present probably in dogs and cats and other animals, there's probably an evolutionary story behind it.
posted by signal at 4:19 AM on November 1 [1 favorite]
But I think research is showing us again and again, again that all these complex things have always been there in other forms. And it's not just that they evolve with humans, like, boom, everything's super complicated and complex and no one else does this. And seeing that, it's also present probably in dogs and cats and other animals, there's probably an evolutionary story behind it.
posted by signal at 4:19 AM on November 1 [1 favorite]
This is ignoring the real question: how many humans does the average spider eat in its sleep?
It depends on whether you include Humans Georg in your sample or not….
posted by GenjiandProust at 4:27 AM on November 1 [5 favorites]
It depends on whether you include Humans Georg in your sample or not….
posted by GenjiandProust at 4:27 AM on November 1 [5 favorites]
Do Robotic Spiders Dream of Electric Flies?
posted by CynicalKnight at 5:16 AM on November 1 [1 favorite]
posted by CynicalKnight at 5:16 AM on November 1 [1 favorite]
I bet spider nightmares come from jerks like me wrecking the webs they make across my backyard. Stop putting them in my path, and I'll leave them alone.
Or about having to tie so many pairs of shoelaces, while bending. And a cramp comes! And one is knotted but not tight enough. And all the other spiders are Judge Smails spiders: "Well, we're waiting!".
posted by The_Vegetables at 7:49 AM on November 1 [1 favorite]
Or about having to tie so many pairs of shoelaces, while bending. And a cramp comes! And one is knotted but not tight enough. And all the other spiders are Judge Smails spiders: "Well, we're waiting!".
posted by The_Vegetables at 7:49 AM on November 1 [1 favorite]
or they have nightmares about humans crawling on them
posted by supermedusa at 10:54 AM on November 1
posted by supermedusa at 10:54 AM on November 1
Best of the web
posted by brilliantmistake at 12:44 PM on November 1 [1 favorite]
posted by brilliantmistake at 12:44 PM on November 1 [1 favorite]
Okay, it's not just me. They only settled that bugs sleep in 2000, well after I was out of school, and I was not informed.
"Sweet dreams, spiders." (addressed to the several dozen that are likely in earshot of my desk)
posted by straight at 5:02 PM on November 1
"Sweet dreams, spiders." (addressed to the several dozen that are likely in earshot of my desk)
The fresh-water polyp Hydra vulgaris and the jellyfish Cassiopea are among the most primitive organisms in which sleep-like states have been observed. Observing sleep states in jellyfish provides evidence that sleep states do not require that an animal have a brain or central nervous systemhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_in_animals
Bees have some of the most complex sleep states amongst insects. Decade after decade results mounted that insects do sleep, and that this resembles mammalian and avian sleep. Nonetheless, sleep scientists continued to not accept these results and there was wide agreement that insects did not experience sleep. It took the gene expression studies of Hendricks et al. 2000 and Shaw et al. 2000 showing orthology between mammals and the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster for this to finally be accepted.
posted by straight at 5:02 PM on November 1
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Spider, waking: Oh, thank god. I'm a spider I don't know what a final exam is!
posted by axiom at 9:19 PM on October 31 [13 favorites]