What do Dreams of Snakes Mean? - Page 2
6) In the 1930′s anthropologist Dorothy Eggan collected a number of dreams from a Hopi Indian man she calls “Sam”. This is one of Sam’s dreams, as recorded by Eggan: He becomes aware of a woman’s dance being per formed in the plaza. This bothers him, because he believes that performing this dance at this time of year can harm the crops. The people in the plaza ask him to join them, but he refuses and goes to sit under a tree. A crowd gathers around him, whispering curiously, and finally an old man tells Sam that behind him there is something that the people fear. Sam says he isn’t afraid of anything, but he gets up and looks: “There I saw a huge snake coiled up. His head must be the size of the mountain lion and around the neck I saw four Pahos (prayer feathers) hang ing down. It seems to me that [it] is a sacred snake. “Lay down,” said a voice. “Sir, is that you speaking, Snake?” “Yes, I am not going to harm you. You must obey me.” I lay down again in the shade and didn’t pay any attention to that snake. Well the snake stuck his tongue out and began licking my face and hands. At first I [was] kind of scared, but remembered that the snake would not harm me. Soon the snake put his body over my belly button and was very still. The snake must be around four hundred pounds. Well the snake began to move up to my head and put his nose close to my mouth, but I have to stand it. I remember he is not going to harm me. Well by and by X___ came along, and he must have seen that huge snake over my body. He ran to me and took a stick and try to chase that snake away, but the snake is too quick for him. He bound X___ round and round and was ready to crush him, but instead of killing X___, he sank down into the earth. I get up quickly and look down in the hole where the snake sank down into. I can see the movement of the water, a wave, like a boiling water. I notice the ground is shaking and the wind coming up. Everybody who has seen the snake take X___ down into the hole, they get after me. Some are crying. Then the people are running away in order to get away from me. Well I left that hole and went into my house for I wanted to be with my wife and see if the world has come to end. I woke up and find that it is windy.’” [vii]
7) In his trilogy of plays known as The Orestia, the fifth-century B.C. Greek play wright Aeschylus told the story of Orestes, whose mother Clytemnestra killed his father Agammemnon for having sacrificed their daughter (and Orestes’ sister) Iphigenia on the eve of the Trojan war. The following dialogue is from the middle play, The Libation Bearers, after Orestes has watched his other sister Electra reluctantly bring offerings from Clytemnestra to the grave of Agammemnon:
Chorus: That godless woman [Clytemnestra] was driven by dreams and by night-wandering terrors to send these offerings.
Orestes: Did you find out about her dream, to be able to tell it rightly?
Chorus: She thought that she gave birth to a snake–that is how she told it.
Orestes: How did her story end? How did it come out?
Chorus: She wrapped the snake in swaddling clothes, like a baby.
Orestes: What food did it need, this newborn monster?
Chorus: She gave it the breast, in her dream.
Orestes: How did the hateful thing not hurt the nipple?
Chorus: It did. It drew clots of blood with the milk.
Orestes: This is not meaningless! It is a vision of man.
Chorus: She started out of her sleep and cried in te ror, and many a lamp that was blinded in darkness blazed in the palace walls to pleasure its mistress. And after that, she sent these funeral offerings; she hoped that they would cure all that was wrong.
Orestes: This is my prayer, by this land, by my father’s grave: may this dream find fulfillment for me! I judge it will, too; all of it fits. For if the snake came from the same place I did, and wore my swaddling clothes, and sucked the breast that gave me sustenance, mixed the dear milk with clots of blood, and she was terrified at what happened–then, it must be so that, as she raised this fearful monster, she must die violently! For I that became that very snake will kill her, even as the dream has said.” [viii]
A Figure of Strength and Potency
The snakes in these dreams are powerful–in every case the snake is a figure of strength, energy, and potency. Sometimes, the dreamer struggles against the snake, trying to fight its power. The Algerian Muslims fight to free themselves from the grip of the snake (2.2), Perpetua confronts a dragon-like creature blocking her way up a ladder to the heavens (2.5), and Henry Shipes fends off the snake loosed at him by an antagonis tic shaman (2.3). But sometimes the dreamer becomes an ally of the snake, and is allowed to draw upon the snake’s power. Rosie learns how to become a shaman from a rattlesnake (2.1), Sam is physically cared for and protected by the sacred snake (2.6), and Pharaoh Tanutamon extends the range of his kingdom by “plac[ing] his heart” in his dream of the two snakes lying beside him (2.4). But even in these latter cases, where the snake’s power has a positive quality, the dreamer feels wary of the snake: it takes three or four dreams for Rosie to trust the rattlesnake’s message, Sam must continually remind him self in the dream that the great snake promised not to harm him, and Tanutamon notes that such a dream would bring evil if it was misunderstood or ignored.
Turning to the various interpretations that the world’s cultural and religious traditions have attached to snake dreams, we find this same complex of reactions:
The Temne of West Africa believe that if a person has sought the aid of a personal river spirit to gain wealth or children, the spirit may appear in a dream as a snake and reveal its name. [ix]
9) A Muslim treatise on dream interpretation dating from eighth-century Persia states that “If you see a small snake in a dream know that you will be in the midst of treasure; and if you see a big snake, you will be at war with your enemies.” [x]
10) Among the Berti of Africa, snakes in dreams are interpreted as indicating enemies. To dream of killing a snake indicates that the dreamer will defeat an enemy or win a dispute. This dream can also indicate that a village child will die or a pregnant woman will miscarry. To dream of being bitten by a snake means that the dream er will lose a dispute or fall to an enemy. [xi]
11) For the Tzintzuntzan people of Michoacan, Mexico, to dream of “a serpent means one is ‘in a state of mortal sin’.” [xii]
12) The Lotuko-speaking Lango of Africa believe that “to dream that a snake bites one is a very bad omen. Immediately on waking one bites a piece of charcoal and spits it out and pricks oneself with a thorn. This will avert the omen and even if one meets a snake, as one surely will, it will not bite one.” [xiii]
13) In the Oneirocritica of Artemidorus, the second-century Greek text that has so profoundly influenced Western dream studies, it says that “a serpent signifies a king because of its strength. It also signifies time because of its length and because it casts off its old skin and becomes young again…. It also means wealth and possessions, since the serpent guards treasures…” Artemidorus says that if a serpent approaches the dreamer and gives, speaks, or reveals something that is not bad, it means good fortune from the gods. But if the serpent does the opposite, this means bad fortune. Serpents in dreams can portend death, because the snake is a “child of the earth” and thus suggests the burial of the dead. He goes on to say that “A snake signifies sick ness and an enemy. The way in which the snake treats the dreamer determines the way in which the sickness or enemy will also treat him.” Artemidorus also gives a long list of possible interpre tations for a pregnant woman’s dream that she gives birth to a ser pent. [xiv]
14) According to the Oneirocriticon of Achmet, a Chris tian from tenth-century Byzantium who patterned much of his work on that of Artemidorus, “The dragon signifies a king, while snakes denote enemies who are very powerful or insignificant in propor tion to the snake’s size…If someone dreams that he was fighting with a snake and killed it, he will cut down an enemy whose power is proportionate to the mightiness of the snake he saw in his dream; if he dreams that he cut or split the snake in two, he will receive from his enemies wealth in propor tion to the cut…If someone dreams that he was eating snake meat, he will find in crease of wealth and exult over his enemies.” [xv]
These different interpretations of snake dreams correspond closely to what we find in the dream experiences themselves. There is, first and fore most, a recognition of the power of the snakes that appear in dreams; there is a tendency to regard such dreams as very negative, as indicating strife, illness, and defeat by one’s enemies; there is also a tendency to see snake dreams more positively, as portending wealth, success, and victory; and there is almost always an undercurrent of wariness, fear, and even dread regarding the appear ance of snakes in dreams.
Hi Kelly,
there are really interesting dreams here – good to read.
I had a dream just two days ago that confused me and scared me that I’m still trying to workout what it really means..
All I can recall is a very very large python snake (don’t like them) with an overly large head with a johnny Depp like hat just stared into my eyes and told me “come with me.” I hesitated but still went with this snake. It seemed to me that I was climbing the snake as we kept going higher and higher to what seemed like nothing but into the clouds and blue sky.
After that, I ended up in a desert. It was like seeing it in a movie. I saw myself in the small, sunny but windy desert covered up from head to toe with just my face revealed – like what people using wear in the desert. There were a couple of trees there. I remember feeling like “I have to get there..I *must find it”. I felt that this was my path/journey to my “treasure” or fulfillment.
Please help.
hi , i was woundern if ucan help me understand a dream that i had of a snake thta was black and brown .. it was in a sealed up bag tryn to get out but every time it would try to get out i wouldnt let it … the feeling i had in the dream was frieght can u please help me understand this dream or is some one tryn to tell me some thing thanx …. sandra!
Dear Kelly,
I walked in to my old catholic grade school but it wasnt the same. I was there to be in an out patient depression hospital type thing(i was in in patient last year for a month for anexioty and depression). apperantly i was 3 weeks late and that made me nervous. they gave us new seats and treated us like little kids. i saw many firmiliar faces i knew. i talked to a few saying oh i didnt relieze you were this depressed or why are you in here? many of them acted like i should have known. some were very hostial. then i didnt know some of the others and i remember judging them. we sat down in our desks but something was wrong with mine. it turned into dirt and was almost like a hole. but it was ok for me to sit in like a normal chair. the counsler was talking and i looked down near my leg. i saw a piece of toilet paper with small dots of blood all over it and behind it i could just barely make out a dark shape in a smaller hole. then a small black snake came out. i screamed and backed away farther and farther untill i thought it wouldnt come after me. this black snake almost looked like it was floating towards me then it lunged and bit me. it latched on and wouldnt let go. i screamed but felt no fear or pain. Im not sure if it was poisnous but i think it was and im not sure if i saw any blood on my leg from tthe snake bit but i remember once a counsler got it off and killed it they yelled at me and said it was my fault because i should have seen it earlier. i felt so embaresed and dumb. i stayed quiet then i woke up.
please help me with my dream. i will give you any more details or information that you need to help me figure this out. for some reason this dream really stuck out to me and i want to know what its all about.
please write back,
Kelli
I had a very strange dream last night, the one that stays with you all day the next day. First, I dreamed of being in my mother’s house (my childhood home) with my current family and watched a snake eat a rodent that was in the house. Then during the same dream, I was in my chldhood bed in the same home, and while I slept, a snake crawled inside me and when I woke up, realized it was in me and panicked, telling my husband to take me to the hospital to get it cut out. I thought it was the same snake, but learned it was not. However, before i could react, the snake left my body on its own and slithered away not harming me or anyone else. It was a long plain brown snake. I’m sure this has to do with what i am going through right now, but not sure how it relates. My mother is elderly and planning on moving and selling her home (the home in the dream). We (my family) are contemplating moving to her home and relocating our children into another school district. I don’t want to do it, but for financial reasons we may have to. I had a dysfunctional childhood w/verbal abuse and many bad memories. What is this snake telling me?
MY DREAM WAS A LITTLE DIFFERENT ! IT WAS NOT LIKE A SNAKE ATTACKING ME ! I SAW TWO DREAM ON DIFFRENT DAYS ! FIRST WAS THAT I WAS IN SOME GRAND BUT OLD PALACE TYPE PLACE,,THE WALLS WERE NOT OF CEMENT BUT OF METAL OF GOLDEN COLOUR!MAY BE OF GOLD! I WAS ROAMING ABOUT HERE N THERE N THAT PALACE WHEN I WENT TO A ROOM LITTLE DARKER THAN THE OTHER ONES! THEN I SAW THE TAIL OF A SNAKE ,,I CUDNT SEE REST OF ITS BODY BCZ OF D DARKNESS IN THAT ROOM! THEN I SAW A LITTLE GOLDEN SHIVA LINGA ( WHICH WAS EXACTLY LIKE THE GOLDEN SHIVA LINGA I HAVE AT HOME,,N WHICH I HAVE PERSONALISED AS MY OWN LINGA AS MY MOM USES ANOTHER ONE TO WORSHIP ),I SAW THEN MANY SMALL THIN SNAKES CRAWLING AROUNG THE SHIVLING N 1 COILING AROUND IT! THIS WAS WHEN IT WAS THE FIRST WEEK OF SHRAVAN i.e. lord shiva’s birth month! BUT I WAS TOTALLY UNAWARE THAT ITS SHRAVAN NOW ! MY MOTHER TOLD ME!
IN ANOTHER DREAM JUST A WEEK AGO WHEN I WAS SLEEPING IN MY BED AND IT WAS ABOUT 9-10AM IN THE MORNING WEARING A RED NIGHT GOWN,,I DREAMT EXACTLY THE SAME SITUATIONS IN WHICH I WAS ACTUALLY SLEEPING i.e. the day time 9-10 am,.,wearing my red gown in my bedroom!I SAW A VERY THICK AND LARGE BROWN COLOUED SNAKE CRAWLING UP THE WARDROBE BEHIND MY BED! IT HAD ROUND N BIG BLACK SPOTS ALL OVER ITS BODY N LOOKED SO BEAUTIFUL! IT HAD CRAWLED HALF THE WARDROBE N NOW WASNT MOVING! SURPRISING I WASNT AT ALL SCARED TO SEE THE SNAKE! THOUGH IN REAL LIFE IM VY SCARED OF THEM ! THERE WAS A VERY DEVINE N POSITIVE FEELING ABOUT THE SNAKE IN MY DREAM! THEN I SAW THE SNAKE TURNING ITS LARGE HEAD TOWARDS ME BUT IT WASNT THREATENIING! I DECIDED TO CHANGE Y NIGHT GOWN N WEAR A GOOD DRESS N THEN GO OUT OF THE ROOM N CALL MY PARENTS TO SEE THE SNAKE! WHILE I WAS DOING SO,THE SNAKE WAS MOVING N TURNING ITS HEAD IN ALL THREE SIDES BUT WASNT ATTACKED ME ! THEN I WOKE UP! WHAT CUD BE ITS MEANING??
hi, can u plz help me solve the mystery of this dream I had only once, but it disturbed me a lot.
I saw that I was dreaming in the dream that there was a pond type in front of my building. In the center of the pond was a statue beside which was a pot of holy water. There were many huge snakes in the pond & I could see them. My mum said that I’ll go and bring the water for us. I tried to stop her but she didn’t. As she was going to lift the pot a huge snake ca,me closer to her, I warned her, but she said it’ll not harm her & she started pampering the snake. But the snake started strangling her.I was not knowing what to do, so I pick up the stone nearby & threw in the water. The snake left my mum & we went in our home. Later a mouse from the pond came in our house & it stared biting me. And because the mouse was from pond the snake surrounded our home from all sides to get the mouse. Later we consulted a pandit & he said that seeing a snake was not good for my fiance. What does this dream mean? Does this dream has anything to do with my mum or my fiance? please help me.
Thanks.
Hi Kelly, I had a dream that me and my children were in a wooden boat in some exotic place ( I am assuming) and a very big and colorful ( anacondaish) looking snake, with some orange and green I think with black spots slithered across the whole boat. I remember telling my children to sit still. I think it was kind of on my lap and it bit my left ankle and before it bit my right ankle I fed it a snack ( a cookie or something) that was packed in the boat and I don’t remember anything else after that.
i am getting frequent dreams abt snakes from past 4 days… cobra n other big one following me in my college.. in the same place [college] i had fought wit my gd friend and i hv nt so many gd friends.. i mean dey envy on me… now i jst want to ask if snake dreams and having enemies is der any relevance. as per islam….please reply
last night i saw a black flying snake in my dream,who was flying around me,my sis & bro was also there..i said to them not to kill him, just let him go from this room afterthat we opened d door to let him go from dat room..He didnt harm us and fly away fromd room.
Hi, I got a dream yesterday night..In my dream I have seen a big large black snake and it is on the side of the wall…i am sleeping on my bed..I just opened my eyes and saw a some thing on wall and I conformed it was a big large black snake..and it is coming near down slowly to come near to me..I had this in dream what does it mean..can u plzz..help me..
i want to know why im dreaming this ……….first : snakes all over the walls at my mom’s house but she didnt see them and i was so tr one long big yellow one was in the front door way …2nd: in a pool a young man show me a like granden snake and he let it go in the pool then it like broke in to lil pieces i trun away then i was falshing boy not knowing i didnt have underware,,, i’m 24 live with my babydaddy and three kids what are they trying to tell plz hlep
hi, i offtern have strange dreams all the time. but last night i had a dream about snakes and all day i cannot stop thinking about it, and its really starting to annoy me.
theres so many websites about snakes in dreams and all i would like is a straight up answer.
All i remember in my dream is that it was at a school i use to go to, which i really didn’t enjoy being at, & i was walking thru the school with another person (that i cant remember who) and there were open cages with snakes everywhere with tree stumps and leaves in side of the cages, and the person i was walking with didn’t see the snakes and got bitten several times and i had to keep yelling out to the person to watch out for the snakes, and im really scared of snakes i have never liked them, and in the dream i wasnt scared of the snakes and i was able to dodge them and not get bitten!
this may not mean anything but if anyone thinks it might could somebody share some information about it with me! i would really appreciate it!
thanks mikki x
Last night i saw thousands of cobra in my office they were all around my office for about an hour and some of my friends were so comfortable with the snakes. But one of them nearly bit me. After an hour they all went out when one of my friend took all the snakes out.
I had a dream about a bright green snake, in my dream it tried to bite me, but I managed to kill it.
What does it mean? Does snake dreams always mean bad things are gonna happen?
I had a dream about a brown and black snake and wanted to know what it meant. It didn’t try to bite me or anything it actually came towards me and turned around. Someone caught the snake and walked pass me and as he did the snake just looked at me. What does this mean?
I am fron Nigeria. I had a dream that i and my twin brother were fighting a very big and long snake in our compound. Confronting the snake which had several times attempted to bite us, the snake changed to one of our dogs and changed back to the snake. This happened twice. After sometime the snake ran out of our compound. Determined to hunt it down, i pursued it to the street. And i saw a mighty man as of a giant caught the snake by the neck lifted it up squeezed it and brought it town to finish the kill. The snake had the head of a dog at that moment.
Waking up i decided to sell the dog cos i cant live with it again after the dream. Mum was reluctant to sell at first but changed her mind four days later because the dog had a sudden change in attitude. She thought it was about to have rabies and we sold off the dog.
It’s three days after selling the dog and i had another dream. In this dream, the dog came back to our compound with it’s body covered with blisters and sometime looking like raw meat. This dream is hunting me.
Is the dog possesed? The dog would cry and run whenever we played guitar in our house. Is it naturtal or doea this have a spiritual meaning. Please help
I have had many dreams of snakes, most unpleasant and nightmarish. I always am glad to wake up from them. I hate them.
can u tell me wat does this dream mean plz my brother in law had a dream about me that there were two snakes in my house eating from my food plz
Last night I had a dream that I was laying down on a big white ship …then suddenly someone told me” hey theres a snake inside the ship if it comes to you don’t move so it wont feel you are alive”
then it will pass by you ..as soon as she was telling me this i felt the snake on my body …i couldn’t look at it Because i didn’t wanted to move but i could feel its weight on me …when it reach to my left hand ,it bite back of my LEFT HAND and i whispered to my friend : “HELP” and she went to bring someone to help me …i was feeling dizzy and i had bruise on back of my left hand, but not so painful…
This is not my first time dreaming snake bites back of my hand …thats why i’m curious to know the meaning why always back of my left hand …what does it mean ?and it feels so real that even when i wake up i feel my left hand is hurting a little O_0
I just had a dream that I was walking down a dirt road and an old firend of mine appeared. She had two green string beans left in her hand and asked if I would like them. I said ok. She gave the two green beans to me and as I look down in the palm of my hand they are not green beans they look like two large crabs but the skin is like a snake and is green and they begin to move in my hand. I remember in my dream looking and feeling that I did not like this.
What the heck kind of dream is this?
last night i had a dream that i was being chased throughout my house by many many snakes. They varied in all sizes from huge to small. All different colors. Some were chasing me, some werent. Some actually bit me, some didnt. Then when i ran outside, they were all around me outside my yard to.
What does this dream mean????
few days ago durring day time i saw a bad dream that a black snake getting out from dustbin placed close to my bed, and my younger sister also lieing sleep next to me but she still slept and i wake up and try to kill this this attacking black snake by throwing purse found close to my bed and after hit by purse snake fell down into dustbin back and then with matchbox I burnt it off along with dustbin and of fear didnt even look into dustbin just burnt it off inside dustbin then because of fear I wake up…please help I am quite disturbed after this dream, although from past I am extremely frightened of snakes usually, even if snakes comes on movies or tv I simply change channel cant bearing watching them
I had a strange but vivid dream last night. I was wondering if anyone could help me solve he meaning. I was walking than i heard a snake hiss and ripped through my left shoulder. I could feel it moving around in my body. Then i saw it seemed like the shape of the head coming from my stomach so i got a knife and grabbed the head tightly, and, started ripping through my skin and cut off the head and took the rest of it out of my stomach. i know it sounds bad but I’ve never dream t of anything like this?
i often see a black snake chasing me all night…… it came closer to me said hiiiii n den went away
All I can remember from my dream is that I was in my parents old house and I was blowing my nose. I looked up my nose to see if I got it all, I saw a snakes eye. I kept blowing and when I checked again I see just the snakes mouth. I stood there terrified to keep blowing but knew it couldn’t stay in there but also at no point did I feel it was in there anyway. Once I blew enough to get the full head out I start screaming for my mom and started pulling the snake out. It was very stiff. I dropped it in the sink realizing it was dead and the jaw was bent backwards. It was black w/some yellow. I was freaking out continuing to scream for my mom and then woke up. There was also no blood at any point during that dream either.
i think,its an indication for desire of sex.
is it correct???????//
i noticed it is common in young age group and during menopause.
Last 3 nights ago i dreamed of being bite by many snake climbing on the trees
I was flying but they were hunting/following me and they bite me whenever they reached me
But when i got wounded badly there is a guy who helped me and cure my wound
i cant remember his face..
Hi,
I had two dreams related to snakes that I recall offhand and would love explanations about.
First – I saw me entering a house, and recollecting that I thought it was smaller than what I wanted but a house nevertheless. But my father was not able to enter it because there were a bunch of snakes at the gate that wouldn’t let him enter. One of them was black with shiny scales and white stripes like the sea snakes. They were in a square pit just near the gate. So I was at this side of them, and my father at the other end. Felt very helpless at the situation and very sorry for papa.
Second one which I had just yesterday. I saw a not so large snake being mauled by two larger reptiles that looked like giant lizards. It was as if somebody was teaching me how to hunt down a snake in my dream.
I fear reptiles.
I dreamed I was at my parents house and a big boa was in the kitchen. It got up to strike at me and I threw a cloth across it’s face, it covered it’s eyes. I then grabbed it’s head and held his mouth shut. I was holding it very tightly because I didn’t want it to get me or get away from me. I kept calling my mom and dad to help me but they never would come. They have passed away many years ago. Finally, my husband came to help but I didn’t know how was was going to let go. The cloth slipped from it’s mouth and instead of scales, it had fur on it. I remember looking at it and thinking it looked raggedy, then I woke up.
I had a dream last night, We are in a pet store and we get this white hollow looking shell with a lizard in it, my husband, his live long best friend and I take it home and but first we have to sit and wait for some kind of show to start and I am playing around getting chairs but then I turn around and my bed is infront of me with the white hollow shell. And it has s big black and yellow snake coming out of it with baby snakes crawling out of it!
Hi Kelly,
There was a big coincidence this morning. My hubby and I dreamt of snake. He saw big cobra early morning. IN dream ,he himself bought it and kept in home then suddenly it disappeared and rounded the body of his brother. And on seeing this scene his dream broke. Where as I saw snake somewhere at 9am. I was not in deep sleep, I was simply laying down and withing seconds I got dream. That snake failed down from the roof of house on me but still I didnt frighten,rather I was thinking in dream to throw it out.
We were not knowing about each other’s dream. But in evening we shared our dreams and was quite surprised with the coincidence. How could we both see snake in dream on the same day? What kind of indication or intimation it must be? Please clarify.
Snakes are very powerful creatures in dreams. Many people have vivid snake dreams, so it could just be a coincidence that you and your husband would both dream of snakes on the same night. But maybe it is not a coincidence. Maybe there is a connection of meaning or insight. If I were you, I would ask myself about the differences between his snake and my snake. He brought his snake into the house, whereas my snake fell into our house. His snake disappears around his brother, whereas I want to throw the snake out myself. Snakes can symbolize many things–wisdom, danger, healing, aggression, male sexuality, evil–it really depends on your life context to determine what the snakes are symbolizing for you. It does seem important that you and your husband dreamed about snakes on the same night. Perhaps you share other dream themes with each other? In that sense, perhaps the snakes are inviting you and your husband to a deeper dream dialogue?
Dear Kelly,
Thankyou so much for replying
This is the first time we had dream on similar lines. Both of us have very strong bonding and have open dialogues. I used to have had dreams related to water, but those are also rare these days. But in his case he sees snake in dream mostly once in a year. I am thinking on all fronts,but not getting any clue.
Could it be related by any chance to our secong child, which we are plannign to have these days. But then what is it trying to tell? Please if possible give it a thought.
Ana
I had a dream about a snake that just amazes me and scares me. I was back at a old house i loved so much growing up in as a kid. The snake was one of those red and white ones but mixed like around the tip was a ugly patterned brown, this was also the color of his head. Anyway, he was out in the sunroom/poorch area and he was trying to get through the door trying to attack me and i kept fighing him and finally killed him by braking his tale and neck with the door. Later my aunt and mom came down the drive way and i told them and then my side hurt and the snake had bitten me on myside. It hurt and i believe it was poisonous. There is just something, emotion maybe that draws me to this dream any feed back would be nice. Thanks(:
That’s interesting to hear about your plans for a second child. Perhaps the snakes are symbolizing sexual creativity? The power of creating new life together?
That’s an intense dream! One question that immediately comes to mind is whether or not the dream refers to an actual childhood experience of abuse or trauma (symbolized by the poisonous serpent). Nightmares from such experiences can recur throughout the rest of one’s life. If this is not true in your case, then it seems to be a metaphorical dream about feeling vulnerable and under attack in a very personal, private space–and having the power to defend yourself successfully. The appearance of female relatives plus the male gender of the snake makes me wonder about pressure in the waking world from masculine aggression, something my female relatives can understand. I don’t know what to make of the specific colors of the snake–he just sounds like a scary one. This may not relate at all, but your dream reminds me of Queen Maya’s ancient dream in which an elephant touched her on the side with his (snake-like) trunk, and when she awoke she had conceived the child who would become the Buddha. I wonder if in your dream something was conceived when the snake bit you, some kind of insight, some kind of new potential for awareness.