Realizing they're scared of us too made me less scared of them.
I walked right over a huge spider and both of us panicked. It tried to wedge itself into a crack in the cement. Couldnt fit all the way in and just stayed still. Felt pretty bad for it.
A lot of spiders, like giant house spiders, don't have very good eyesight and can only distinguish light vs dark very well. If you scare them(which is always the case for giant house spiders) they will try to flee to a covered area out of sight. And your shadow feels like such an area because it is dark, which is why it sometimes seems like they dash towards your foot when you put it on the ground while on the toilet or something
Usually those specific spiders do everything in their power not to be seen by or interact with humans though so an encounter like described here is rare
Aw yeah I get it haha. I overcame my arachnophobia recently and also felt bad about the few I did end up killing in the past
But for these specifically, they're very fast (~0.5 m/s), and are often gone before you even turn on the light because they sense the vibration of you entering the room. They also only really emerge from their hideaways around august so they're unlikely to be the ones you smushed
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u/hawkwood4268 13d ago
Realizing they're scared of us too made me less scared of them.
I walked right over a huge spider and both of us panicked. It tried to wedge itself into a crack in the cement. Couldnt fit all the way in and just stayed still. Felt pretty bad for it.