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grey spider

I was half asleep turning over in bed when I saw a big spider crawling down my pillow. It scared me so much I turned on the light. I then got up and saw one crawling on the floor. Any ideas? I've never seen this before. Both spiders faded away but they seemed so real at first.
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It was so real that I still remember it now, 55 or so years later.  But I'm certain there was not a tarantula on my pillow.  
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That exact same thing happened to me when I was a child.  I woke up and saw a tarantula on my pillow.  It looked as real as anything I have ever seen.  I screamed, and my mother came into my room, and the tarantula was gone.   I know now that it was a sleep-related hallucination, but at the time, it seemed totally real.  It was so real that it disturbed me when my mother did not take it seriously.
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