I have read posts around the net about people who can not go to bed to sleep because when they go to bed very large, visually fuzzy, ethereal spiders or beetles crawl out of their bodies and start biting them. I tried searching for posts today, but I was not able to find any posts about it other than regular bug bites or altered drugged states of spiders, beetles, and other insects.

I first read about people being attacked and bitten by spiders and bugs crawling in and out of their bodies at night while learning about Shamanism. They were were generally blips inserted as an afterthought to a main post on a separate topic. Occasionally I have read a few hints of these other world bugs in unrelated postings, generally as passing thought. Someone will mention it happens to them, and someone else will chime in saying, ‘Oh yes, that happened to me too’.

I have never experienced these shapeless bugs myself, only remotely as a child when someone my folks knew was ‘sent’ away to ‘dry out’, which was the term used a long time ago meaning – sent away for a month to a ‘clinic’ as an attempt to cure alcohol addiction.

I remember my folks saying so and so was seeing spiders and mice crawling around their room during the first days of ‘drying out’. That meant they have a severe alcohol addiction. Other than that I have no first hand experience with this happening to anyone I know.

On the other hand, I have seen what look like fuzzy flies fly into or out of people around me. They usually look like house flies, but their shape is really indistinctive. I think house flies because that is what they most resemble, or maybe a little like a formless black, ant bodied wasp. I have noticed when a fly of this type flies into someone, the person does not seem to be aware of it. I see it happen, and if they do too, they are used to it happening.

Usually within a half an hour, when one of these flies has flown into someone they undergo a mood shift, usually becoming angry or irritated for no obvious reason. Whether the bugs are bringers of the mood change, or if it is coincidence I have never known someone I see it happening to well enough to ask if they know a change is happening to them or not.

I do not see myself saying, “Hi, I was looking at you and noticed a fly or something like it, fly out of that door and fly right into your cheek. Does this happen often to you?”  I can not imagine any good outcome from asking a stranger a question like that.

From what I have gleaned from reading where people mentioned bugs crawling out of them and biting them, it was usually confined to the chest and stomach area. Perhaps this is where they were most focus is as sleeping usually happens in a darkened room. Or possible because that is where our life forces are located, in this area of our body

I don’t think it is a singularly Shamanistic viewpoint, but the few responses I have read is whoever this is happening to is doing something in their life that has taken their life out of balance; and this will keep happening until they take steps to get their life back in balance. In some cases I remember the cure was indeed a life style change, in other cases it was an act of intervention from someone who had experience with the ‘bug issue’ and knew how to fix it.

Personally, I am on the fence about the whole matter.  While it is well within the realm of altered reality, I do wonder if it happens in mundane reality, or do these people somehow how unknowingly shift into an alternate reality with no one around them noticing? If it does happen without their direct knowledge, how come, and does it continue?

Before someone takes off with this idea, I am not speaking of Morgellons disease or a seven foot tall Praying Mantis type creature that a few people see of when they wake in the middle of the night, or other overly large insects that seem to inhabit the world of our suddenly waking moments. These spiders and beetle stories I have read are from people who lay down to go to sleep, not people who have been asleep for some amount of time.

If you have any experience with these phenomena, I sure would enjoy hearing your serious thoughts on the subject.