Tyler, There is a nice word for your sensation, if you are willing to think of them as ants instead of spiders. Formication, from Latin Formica meaning ant, same root as formic acid, the main ingredient in most ant stings (the harmless one; it is the trace-level proteins that cause the persistent allergic irritations), and a possibly important chemical in the emergence of life (though believed less by some of us than by others). Formication became a more popularly known word when heroin addiction was in the public eye, because the autonomous excitability of sensory nerves when the addict is under-sedated gives the feeling of being crawled on by ants.
Anyway, useless mot for today, Eric ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
