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Originally Posted by Hylas
But it was just a pic not the real thing, so having nightmares because of it! C'mon! 
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I found difficult opening my Biology book in high school because there were so many images of spiders in it. It's impossible that I can play a videogame with giant spiders as enemies. Harry Potter's second movie was a kids flick, but I kept my eyes closed in every single scene with a spider in it (giant ones there were...). Same goes for the last LOTR movie. I also found really bothering the fact in Lilo & Stitch there was this pink (was it pink?) tv broadcasting live action footage from the old horror Earth vs the Spider. I can even feel a natural hostility towards people who pick nicknames as "spider-something" etc. Because the name itself contains the idea of the animal. No other animal has the same effect on me. I can be disgusted by worms, I can say I don't like flies, bugs are something I wouldn't want to see around, but I'm not upset in front of any of them. I can touch them when needed, I can get rid of them when others don't want to. On the contrary, that I can get rid of a spider is out of the question.
To me the idea of a spider is terrifying in any case, so even if a spider isn't real, being it a photo, a cartoon, a pixelated creature or a completely unrealistic toy, I get the same impression and I experience the same fear. Phobias are not so easy to explain. Their roots are strong and go a lot deeper inside a person's self than you could imagine. Many phobias are said to be archetypal, meaning they are beyond a single person's reasons, likes or dislikes.