What do Dreams of Snakes Mean?
Below is a chapter about the history of snake dreams, using psychology and religious studies to explore their meanings. It comes from my book Spiritual Dreaming: A Cross-Cultural and Historical Journey.
If you are interested in how to interpret a dream of a snake, you might take a look at this post.
If you’d like to know what Carl Jung said about snake symbolism in The Red Book, read this post.
To learn more about actual snakes, check out the East Bay Vivarium.
Chapter 2: Snakes
Animals of various kinds appear in spiritually meaningful dreams. Birds, dogs, bears, wolves, fish, and even insects have come in people’s dreams to deliver important messages from the divine. But the animal that makes perhaps the most powerful spiritual impact in dreams is the snake. People from cultures all over the world report dreams in which they have intensely vivid encounters with snakes. Content analysis studies performed by Robert Van de Castle indicate that even in the dreams of modern Americans, who presumably have little direct contact with snakes, these animals appear with surprising frequency. [i] Many reports of snake dreams emphasize their strange, uncanny quality; the dreamer feels both attracted to and yet repelled by the serpent. As the following examples suggest, many people through history have regarded snake dreams as deeply spiritual experiences–for these dreams reveal the ambivalent nature of the sacred, its capacity to be a force of joyful creativity and violent destructiveness in human life.
1) A fifty year-old woman named Rosie Plummer, of the Paviotso people living on the Walker river reservation in Nevada, told anthropologist Willard Park of her shaman father. Rattlesnakes frequently came to him in his dreams and told him how to cure snake bites and other illnesses. Eighteen years after his death, Rosie started to dream about her father. “She dreamed that he came to her and told her to be a shaman. Then a rattlesnake came to her in dreams and told her to get eagle feathers, white paint, wild tobacco. The snake gave her the songs that she sings when she is curing. The snake appeared three or four times before she be lieved that she would be a shaman. Now she dreams about the rattlesnake quite frequently and she learns new songs and is told how to cure sick people in this way. [ii]
2) Lilias Trotter, a Christian missionary who worked in Algeria in the early part of the twentieth century, had these two dreams reported to her by Muslims who were converting to Christianity. A) Trotter says that an Algerian she knew named Boualem had been involved in an angry conflict with a neighbor. She wanted to help Boualem, but didn’t know how; then she says, “now God has dealt with the matter. Boualem told us that a dream had come. ‘I dreamed that a great snake was coiling round my foot and leg, and you [Trot ter] were there, and in horror I called to you. You said to the snake: “In the name of Jesus, let go.” It uncoiled and fell like a rope, and I woke almost dead with joy.’ And the shining of his face told that his soul had got free.” B) Trotter says, “Blind Houriya came this morning with ‘I want to tell you something that has frightened me very much. I dreamt it Saturday night, but I was too frightened to tell you yesterday. To-day my husband told me, “You must tell them.” I dreamed that a great snake was twisting round my throat and strangling me. I called to you [Trotter] but you said: “I cannot save you, for you are not following our road.” I went on calling for help, and one came up to me and loosened the snake from off my neck. I said: “And who is it that is saving me, and what is this snake?” A voice said: “I am Jesus and this snake is Ramadan [the Muslim ritual fasting period].”‘” [iii]
3) Henry Shipes was the son of an English father and a mother from the Maidu Indians of the Sierra Nevada mountains of Califor nia. He grew up at the end of the nineteenth century, during the gold rush era, when the indigenous Maidu culture was coming into conflict with white culture. Henry told anthropologist Arden King of various dreams in which he fought against native shamans who were jealous of his power. In one of these dreams, Henry “had a dream contest with a shaman who was also the headman at Quincy [a Sierra Nevada town]. In this dream Henry and the shaman were contesting with each other to see who had the most power. This was a fight to the death. The shaman acted first. He loosed a snake which pursued Henry Shipes, but was unable to catch him. Henry then tried his white power. This was stated by him to be specifically white. By ruse he caused the shaman to attempt the lifting of a bucket. The bucket exploded and the dream ended.” [iv]
4) The Egyptian Pharaoh Tanutamon is reported to have had the following dream experience in the first year of his reign, as presented by philologist A. Leo Oppenheim in his work on dreams in the ancient Near East: “His majesty saw a dream in the night: two serpents, one on his right, the other on his left. His majesty awoke, but he did not find them. His majesty said: ‘Why has this happened to me?’” His interpreters told him that the dream means that both Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt now belong to him. “Then his majesty said: “True indeed is the dream; it is beneficial to him who places his heart in it but evil for him who does not know it.” [v]
5) In Carthage in 203 A.D. Vibia Perpetua, a newly married woman of twenty-two years, and mother to an infant son, was imprisoned and sentenced to death for refusing to renounce her Christian faith. As she waited in prison for the day when she and other Christians would be cast into the arena and killed by wild beasts, her brother came and told her to ask God for a vision to reveal her fate. Perpetua agrees, and says she’ll tell him what she learns tomorrow. “And I asked for a vision, and this was shown to me: I saw a bronze ladder, marvellously long, reaching as far as heaven, and narrow too: people could climb it only one at a time. And on the sides of the ladder every kind of iron implement was fixed: there were swords, lances, hooks, cutlasses, javelins, so that if anyone went up carelessly or not looking upwards, he would be torn and his flesh caught on the sharp iron. And beneath the ladder lurked a serpent of wondrous size, who laid am bushes for those mounting, making them terrified of the ascent. But Saturs [a fellow martyr] climbed up first… And he reached the top of the ladder, and turned and said to me: ‘Perpetua, I’m waiting for you–but watch out that the serpent doesn’t bite you!’ And I said: ‘He won’t hurt me, in Christ’s name!’ And under that ladder, almost, it seemed, afraid of me, the serpent slowly thrust out its head–and, as if I were treading on the first rung, I trod on it, and I climbed. And I saw an immense space of garden, and in the middle of it a white-haired man sitting in shepherd’s garb, vast, milk ing sheep, with many thousands of people dressed in shining white standing all round. And he raised his head, looked at me, and said: ‘You are welcome, child.’ And he called me, and gave me, it seemed, a mouthful of the cheese he was milking; and I accepted it in both my hands together, and ate it, and all those standing around said: ‘Amen.’ At the sound of that word I awoke, still chewing some thing indefinable and sweet.” Perpetua tells her dream to her brother, and they both understand that she is to die for her faith. [vi]
If you rarely dream about snakes does it still mean anything? if so, what does it mean if it bites you….on your ear??!
I had a dream about a Snake. I was sitting in the front seat of the car next to the driver and a snake was on my left hand side on the road almost standing… as the car turned, it jumped over the car and went the other side.
Next day as I was driving my car, I took a turn, I saw a brown snake, on the left of the road almost standing position, ready to jump. This was real….
I cant understand that what I saw in the dream, actually alomst happened the same way.
Such an experience might be considered a synchronicity, Jung’s term for strange but meaningful coincidences.
just last night, i had a dream that i was over a friends house who had tons of pets, a snake being one of them..and my sister happened to be there sitting on the couch. i walk into the room where she was sitting and saw the snake slither right by her on the couch hitting her chin with its tail as it slid by, but then all of a sudden it came back and started coiling around her neck so i immediately jump up and try to dig my nails into the snake so i can pull it free. well i finally got it off and threw it outside…but then the same thing happened again and the look on my sisters face as the snake was tightening around her neck was horrid. her eyes wide open with fear looking at me with desperation, as i am now paralyzed and im trying to reach her but something wont let me and i have to watch her be strangled…but finally the paralysis lifted and i go to save her once again. is this supposed to mean something?
My aunt had several dreams about snake people. They were humanoid with a snake face and upper body. They carried big curved swords like a rapier in one hand and a strange sword with three or more snakes where the blade should be in the other. They surrounded her house and lit the outside on fire. The fire couldn’t be extinguished but for some reason never entered the house. She had this dream 20 or so times the month before she was in a fatal car wreck. She was dead for 4 minutes and brought back. She also had several other premonitions about her wreck.
My question, ever heard of any ‘snake people’ as I described them here?
Last night I dreamt that I was in a place with a clear shallow water stream, plain rock brown bottom, there were a couple of big rocks and trees around. To my right, I saw a green, gray and black snake curled up on a tree. I was staring at it until I noticed it was a snake and became cautious. I had a newborn baby wrapped in white cloth and Im moving away from the snake walking backwards on the clear water shallow stream. I faced forward and to my right I noticed another snake curled up by itself on the ground looking at me, this one was black. Then I see two of my best friends passing on the stream like going down on a slide (they seemed happy), and I tell them there are snakes. I have the presence of a men to my right helping me cross the stream, while carrying the baby, to my left there was another green snake bigger than the other two. I jumped right next to it with cautiously but no fear. The place where I jumped to was a regular paved street I walked a couple of steps into a building with a feeling of relief, waiting for an elevator. ?!? I broked up with my boyfriend, of three years, a month ago. In two weeks, I will see my best girlfriends who have been giving me pep talk during these times. Its my bday celebration and they want to party like crazies although I dont feel like it. Maybe that is what the dream is about no? What is your interpretation of the dream?
Hello,
For several months 3-4 times a week, I have had dreams of snakes. Usually I see them in my house, or as im visiting friends, or even walking through a small low lit restraunt or pub. Its usually dark and sometimes I see the snakes as I’m walking through someones’ yard. Usually more than one and usually large coiled up in a corner watching or sometimes baby snakes racing across the floor in hopes to either scare me away or hide. I am very outdoorsey, love to hike in northeast TN, camp, garden. Im not scared of much of anything EXCEPT snakes. I am threatened by their sneakiness and the way they can be so agressive, fast moving and camoflauge.
Any help on this fear would help greatly!
Thank you, Terri
Also if there is any correlation to snakes and seeing demolished cars on the road that have been in terrible crashes and emergency personell trying to free the drivers please let me know. I have this re occuring dream but not as often as the snakes. I see EMT’s prying cars to rescue people, and I see blood and head impact prints and body impact marks, but not the actual people in the crash. Just morbid looking cars with blood and sometimes carseats. Knowing the ppl that had been in the cars didnt make the wrecks.
Ok, well any advice in my screwed up head would help.
Thanks,
Terri
I had a dream last night that I was on a rollercoast and I passed a huge big snake all coiled and looked like it just ate with a big bulge at the bottom of it’s tail. It was just staring at me as I passed. It did not strike at me or do anything. Then I was with 2 young children and 2 small snakes came out of nowhere and started slithering near the kids. They did not strike the children nor did they go away. I couldn’t reach them but they were just there slithering around the kids. I woke up before the rollercoaster ride ended or got to my destination. I was never hurt. What does this mean?
Snakes are ambiguous creatures, dangerous yet associated with healing and wisdom.
A rollercoaster ride can be a vivid metaphor of what life feels like sometimes!
The danger to the children could refer to actual children, and/or to a metaphorically “young” part of yourself.
The connection perhaps is a sense of uncanny creepiness in both types of recurring dream. The awful fascination with horror and danger–a snake’s lidless gaze, the aftermath of a bloody car accident.
Last night I had a dream that I opened the back door to my house and there were snakes everywhere. When I tried to close the door a snake stuck his head in and I could not close the door. I pulled and pulled and the snake turned into a komoto dragon and forced his way in. It began flying towards everyone. I wanted to to swat at it but it was so big I thought it would bite me, but then I realized it wasn’t trying to hurt me, but it was flying back and forth like a fly or a gnat. Then I woke up. What in the world could this mean???
That’s interesting how the snake changes into a larger, more fantastic reptile once it gets inside. If a snake were to force its way into my private space, then turn into a dragon, that would make me think there’s something about “snake energy” (something primitive? wise and ancient? masculine? alien? healing?) that I don’t want so close to me but I can’t hold back any longer. Then comes the realization it’s benign, harmless–that seems significant, like once it gets inside, the sense of threat and danger diminishes, and the energy becomes more manageable.
Last night I had a dream the a few friends and I (I don’t know who they were now, but in my dream I knew them) were on a walk through a forest with dead trees and dry brush all around, until my boyfriend said that we had to get to some play on time, we would have to go through the almost rain forest like area. I get up to that section of forest, and there were 3 snakes guarding it, besides the fact two were on the ground and one was in the tree, also everyone I was with had already passes them. The one snake in the tree looked huge almost like a boa constrictor, and the two on the ground, one was like the green snake above on this page, and the other had a red head and back and white striped body. By the time i was about to pass them I took one step and the red headed snake attacked me, for some reason I had my purse with me and I tried dropping it on the snake, that didn’t work and the snake bit me on my butt cheek. Everyone who was watching was worried, I didn’t feel it so I laughed and tried to keep playing with it. After that my dream went onto my boyfriend getting in his car I got in mine. He thought it would be fun to race me so he was in the lead, and I was trying to catch up with him, he fly’s across rail road tracks and skims by, and my car swerves and ends up parallel to the tracks, a half second later the train is screaming by my car and shaking it uncontrollably. After the train passes everyone in town saw another train coming, so i got out of my car because it was stuck, everyone gets to safe grounds, and all you hear is explosions and screaming. Next thing you know my car and half the town in up in flames.
Can someone tell my why I got bite by a snake and my car went up in flames in the same dream?
I had this dream the other night about snakes. I was in the grass jumping over the snake; almost floating. But there were more than one snake. I was jumping to someone. I believe it was my boyfriend.?.
Last night I dreamt that I picked up a rattlesnake and as I picked it up , it turned black. It was trying very hard to bite me but couldn’t as I held it right behind the head. All of a sudden it streatched out and it bit me on the hand, as I looked at my hand thae snake died and slowly turned to gold and fleked away to nothing, I was waiting to die but instead woke up.
i am with a friend and her children and we are collecting snakes for a collection i have. I am a teacher and have her children sometimes and she thought this was strange. Like a boa constictor and then i said we had to go back and get more and more cause i wanted a collection!
2 nights ago i had a dream that i was looking in the mirror and i saw something black globbing out of my ear and when almost was out it appeared to be asmall snake or worn that was black so i started screaming and trying to pull it out of my ear but it begin to bite me on the face so i woke up with my hand gripped to my left ear in fear what does this mean
ive had 2 snake dreams over a 3 day period.
in the first dream were somewhere where there’s a lot of rocks and suddenlt theres a normal snake (not very big or very long).someone tries to kill it with a big rock but misses so we run away. when i turn aroud its coming out of some guys mouth attacking me and i wake up
in the second dream theres this absolutly HUGE snake which is accompanying me and a friend at night ( we’re in the country) and its protecting us. i feel like i like it and i dont have bad feelings about it. and then something bad happens to the snake and i feel liek i want to help it.
does anyone have any explaination? cuz the second dream is very strange and i cant find any interpretation about it
i m seein snakes and scorpios in my dreams and even seeing them around me
i m even feeling very depressed . evrything is gong on well still i dont feel gooed.
i dont knw wats happening with me. can anyone help me in intreprting this pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeee
Just had this dream. I was walking into a building. I was talking with a white man about something(I’m african american) he’s walking slightly ahead of me like we’re on the sidewalk of a building. I look behind me sensing a presence and there was a huge bright green snake a ways back that scattered off when our eyes met. As we near the end of the sidewalk a bright green smaller snake bites me and I’m like oh shi*! I knock the snake off me and the guy was like are you alright. I’m like yeah that snake bit me. The guy then says yeah, just because you see em doesn’t mean they won’t bite you. We kept walking and my dream went on. Weird.
I dreamt of a green long snake at balcony sort of branch which turned its head towards my direction. I got the door keys and ran out
snake in ur dream means some one is jealous on you
Last night I dreamt that I entered a room and a couple of snakes slithered quickly away from me, into hiding. Then I saw a rattlesnake on the ground in front of me. I started to run from it, but it raised its head and hissed like it was going to bite me, so I stopped running and ended up laying on the ground, hoping to calm the snake. I stayed still even as the rattlesnake slithered around me and around my head under my neck. It kept going without stopping, never coiling around me, and then left me completely. Later in the dream, I did the same thing when I saw a non-poisonous snake (laying down and letting it slither near me). That time when I stood up, I was relieved that the snake was gone until a friend pointed down at my ankle to where three or four small snakes were loosely coiling around. I shook them off easily and then walked away from them. What could this mean???
I have these dreams all the time about my teeth falling out (I’ve had those since I was a child), I also dream about snakes all the time. The tooth dream doesn’t bother me so much I have gotten use to those dreams. But the dreams of snakes scares me so. I have read other people’s comments on the subject, but I still don’t understand why I dream of snakes. I have never liked snakes, they scare me when I’m awake let alone while I’m dreaming. I recently moved from my home town to another state and my boyfriend is not with me now, he won’t be able to join me until November…I wonder if the dreams are because I’m scared? Please let me know. Thank you for any advice you may be able to give me!
Teresa
i dreamed me and a friend/coworker a girl i had knew prior to our job together who i had not a rocky relatioship with but we get along good well me and her had went to a relative of my ex husbands to let them see my daughter that i have with him on her front porch there were 4 cobra snakes one was very friendly and had attached to me he followed me around all day coiled around me stuck his tounge out at me i held him the other three were just laying there almost sleep like completely dormant my neice was in my dream and she was bit by a snake but not by any of the four that were apparant in my dream a rattle snake or a copper head we didn’t know which one and the snakes that followed me around and that were sleeping were cobras there was also a man who had lodged his fourwheeler in a large deep ditch and it was hanging stuck on the sides of the ditch
I had a horrendous dream , I was walking in mud and it was full of black anacondas some of them pregnant and I woke up horrofied
The same day I had a very big argument with somebody
Everytime I “dream” with snales I am terrified
I dreamed I took one of my snakes for a walk, while out it puked up it’s insides so I took the snake back home. by the time I had got home the snakes body had torn in two although the parts were still wriggling, slowly and gradually my snake died.
I woke up and had to check on the snake to calm myself down because it seemed so real!
I HAD A DREAM THAT I WOKE UP FROM A DREAM AND AS I GOT UP FROM BED TO GO BRUSH MY TEETH I FELT MY NECK RATHER HEAVY AS IS SOMETHING WAS ON IT. AS I WALKE TO THE BATHROOM I LOOKED AT MYSELF AND SAW THIS BIG BLACK CHOKER ON MY NECK I IGNORED IT BUT WHEN I MOVED MY HAIR TO BRUSH MY TEETH I HEARD THE RATTLE OF A SNAKE I THEN PANICKED AND TURNED AROUND AND SAW THE SNAKE I FREAKED OUT AND WALKING AROUND MY HOUSE WITH THE SNAKE STILL ON ME I TRIED FIGURING OUT HOW TO GET IT OFF OFF ME. EVERYTIME I WOULD TRY IT WOULD RATTLE SO LOUD THAT OUT OF FEAR I WOULD LEAVE IT THERE. I FELL BACK TO SLEEP KNOWIN IT WAS ON MY NECK. THE DREAM FELT SO REAL
I had a dream that a big brown snake with diamond designs on its head was in my kitchen on the floor and when i turned around and saw it I jumped up on the kitchen counter and then my son who is fourteen now was only about 3 or 4 in my dream came into the kitchen and went to reach for the snake and I grabbed him and pulled him up on the counter with me.The snake kept trying to climb up on the counter and I was hitting it off with a washcloth. I kept doing this over and over and then it bit my left hand and I grabbed its head and pulled its fangs out of my hand. I could feel them coming out in my dream. I then woke up. Please tell me what you think this means. I was really scared.
I wonder if this dream expressses your concerns about your son’s psychological growth and biological maturation. A snake bite marks, for better or worse, a connection with the serpent’s paradoxical power as killer and healer.
I had a dream today that really bothered me. I had a dream that I left my house to go get something and when I was trying to return I could not find my way I was lost on what seemed like a very similiar street to the one I lived on, when I finally reached my door I went up the steps to notice a brown and black snake curled up and the doormat it kind of blened in so I didn’t see it initially. upon site of it I began to run I ran and there were two men sitting at the corner(my house was the corner house) sidewalk by my house in tow chairs the snake crossed over them as if it was not after them by was directly after I began to run up the street which was a small hill, when I got to the top of the hill their were more snakes of the same color. Many of them there was also a small one and they were all comming at me, I fell on the ground and I could not get up no matter how hard I tried. I called out as I looked toward the sky dear got please help me and then I thought I hope that this is a dream and I hit myself very hard and woke up ( I have had the ability to wake myself from a dream since I was a child whenever I was having a bad dream I woke myself from it.) anyway I have a feeling it was a dream meant to warn are tell me of somethin but I dont know what. Can you help me please. Ps. I have dreams quite often and most of the times I know what they mean, I am a dreamer meaning that I get dreams that tells me how situations will turn out. I always have so I really want to get to the bottom of this one. this is not the first time I have had a dream of this nature but its been a while.
That sounds scary! It seems significant that you found the snake when you were trying to return home. If it were me, I’d wonder if this means that before I can reach a place of comfort and safety, I need to overcome the snake’s power to frighten me. Snakes can symbolize wisdom and healing, but in a frightening form. Perhaps the knowledge you need to reach your destination requires an acceptance of the snake’s energy. The two men sitting on the corner don’t seem bothered by the snake, I wonder if they might be allies for you in this process?
i dream all about snakea that makes me scared then its a lot of snakes in the ground,!i dont no whats the meaning of that?..!i hope nothing will be happen with me..!!
I have been dreaming about snakes for several days straight now.
I am near this cave full of snakes, I hate snakes and I’m naturally afraid of them. Then I find a goat and I butcher it and give it to the snakes as a sort of a sacrifice so that they will not bother me.
Can someone tell me what this means?
I dreamt my daughter squashed a snake with her bare hand and there was venom all over.. Is there any bad energy coming towards here? Pls let me know cos i fear the worse
snakes in dreams are evil, deceit, treachery, you have to pray in Jesus name, when those type of nightmares occur
I would not assume that. Her ability to squash the snake could signify her power over whatever the snake represents. The dream could also reflect YOUR concern about your daughter, not necessarily something actually happening to her. Parents worry about their children for many reasons, and it’s good to be aware of those worries, and also to be aware of our children’s innate strengths and abilities to face the challenges that life throws at them.
In the Bible snakes are certainly portrayed as the embodiment of evil, but in dreams snakes can represent both negative and positive energy. It really depends on the details of the dream, and on the life circumstances of the dreamer.
Last night i saw a dream in which i saw three types of snakes small medium large, All snakes were moving away from me. No one was coming to me. Before this dream i saw many dreams with snakes in clean water or around some rock etc. Pls tell me wht prediction is associated with this dream in coming days
The dream may not predict anything specifically. The snakes may represent something from waking life in the present or the past, not just the future.
I had a dream in the early hours of this morning which is still disturbing me. I was trying to cross a river to get to the other side where my friends were haivng a picnic. I stepped intot hte river and started swimming only to find a snake laughing at me coming towards me. I grabbed a log whcih happned to be passing and put mylegs over it and the snake tried to bite my feet and legs but I kept moving them and it just put its head under the water, however, it then got me ont he foot and I started swimming away only to find other snakes swimming around all laughing at me, I then woke up but the dream is so vivid I can still see it happening playing it over and over again in my mind.
Wow, that sounds terrifying! Laughing snakes, that’s a new one. The act of crossing a perilous river is a classic mythic theme, so there may be some metaphoric possibilities there. Does the river symbolize the passage of time, or an emotional barrier, or just the turbulent cross-currents of daily life? I can only speculate and project, but serpents sometimes represent a form of ancient wisdom, so perhaps the snakes are warning NOT to cross the river? I wonder why the snakes are laughing–is it an extra-evil laughter, or is it an amused awareness of the dreamer’s futility?
I have always had a fear of snakes as I was bit by one as a child. I never saw the snake that bit me, but I do remember the pain from the bite. I have had dreams off and on throughout my life of snakes, and that fear was always a part of the dreams. I have been on a spiritual journey for quite some time, and realized a few years ago that I must overcome my fear of snakes and worked on lessening that fear.
Last night I had a dream in which I’ve found it difficult to understand. I was at a family members home (one that I had lived with during my childhood and where I had been bitten by the snake). There had recently been a storm and the ground appeared soggy, but many of my family members were gathered outside for a get together. (I should note that I have very little contact with my family, and this has been true for the past 20 + years.) There is a pond behind this family members home and I was walking to the pond. One of my family members yelled out to me that with the recent rains the snakes would be out and for me to not wake too many of them. As I’m walking, I notice the pond is at the bottom of a hill, and rain water is running down into the pond and there is a bridge that goes across the pond. Between the top of the hill and the pond, there appears to be a lot of heavy foilage that I will have to traverse. At one point, I must step across a small stream that has been created by the heavy rains and happen to look down and noticed that I had stepped on two snakes. I watched as they slithered away down the hill in the small stream, towards the pond which has now turned into a river.
I yell down to my cousin D (who was killed when he was 18 – approximately 24 years ago) to be careful as he has a couple of snakes coming his way. Apparently, my cousin D is swimming in the river. I work my way down the hill, through all of the foilage, and continue to encounter snakes along the way. There is no fear of the snakes. I see them as merely obstacles on the path to be encountered. I finally reach the bottom of the hill where my cousin is swimming, and watch him jump off a cliff into the water. I look into the water and see several snakes swimming around him. At this point, a young man, that I do not know is standing beside me. I turn to look behind me and see several snakes slithering away. I realized at that point I had woke them all up on my way down the hill. But they do not approach me, nor do I approach them, just letting them go. The young man says, “He’ll be okay.” I state that I know he will be. The man turns to look at me and I realize he has snake eyes, very dark, no lids, he smiles at me, “What about you?” It is at that point in which I woke up, but as I was waking up, inbetween that point of waking and sleeping, I imagined (or perhaps it was a remnant of the dream) that I saw that young boy turn into a snake and slither away.
How would you interpret this dream?
It seems important that your cousin D is there, as an emissary from a realm beyond ordinary mortal life. The snakes in that context seem like transitional creatures, helping guide the dreamer from one dimension to another. The abundance of flowing water, the softening of the ground, and the movement away from ordinary family reality all makes me think this is indeed a dream that refers to a spiritual journey. If it were me, I’d be encouraged by the relatively benign behavior of the snakes. I would also watch where I’m stepping, in waking and dreaming!
I had a dream that there was this animal that I could not tell what it was tried to bite me, my hand was in its mouth but it did not hurt me, then I escaped it with the help of someone else. There was also a gray snake in my dream that wrapped its body around me than I got out of its wrap, and I thought the snake was going to hurt me but the snake was really friendly and it liked me. What does this mean?
I don’t remember my dream just the end, all remember is there was a snake & before I could blink it had it’s jaws tightly clenched on the front of my neck, all I remember is trying to pull the snake off & I woke up gusping.
Can anyone help me interpret this.
Hi can u please tell me the meaning of this dream.. I had this dream of orange cobra with black stripes and snake was going to attack my mother.. and in the mean time i caught the snake in my left hand to save my mother but i dont know what happened snake crawled on my left arm biting two times on the arm and then bites 3 times on my neck and then snake dissappeared.. then i realized i was walking in our oldest house where we use to live 20 years back.. particularly in the storage place of the house one of my favourite place in the childhood .. then it felt like i was dying dizziness fading kind of feeling…after that i was not able to walk properly and then i found my mother sitting in our new house the distance between old and new house is like 40-45 miles…and i was telling her that i am dying mother but she was not responding not even looking at me she was praying contineously and with some kind of pearl necklace in her left hand and then i slept holding my mother’s feet…and then i started feeling good like peace then i dont know wat happened i wake up… it was really shocking dream and i remembered so much details which i generally don’t. So please kindly tell me what is the significance of this dream. Thanks.
This is the second time that I have ever had a dream about a snake- couple of weeks between each other. In the first, the snake was simply chasing me and I was afraid and running. I woke up and that was the end of dream one. In the second dream (occurred last night) the dream was following me around my home, but I was not afraid of it, just sort of annoyed by it. Whenever I sat still or became engaged in something for the moment, the snake would appear. Well, I threw something at it, and it died, and then I woke up. I remember another person being in my dream (do believe that it was my sister), but she was simply standing my the living room when the snake appeared. Any idea what this could mean? Also, I went to a wake (fallen officer that passed away) on yesterday (don’t know if this has anything to do with it). Any type of understanding would be greatly appreciated.
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A double dream like that often signals an important degree of psychological energy. As you can see in the article, snakes in dreams have had many different meanings attached to them, from very evil to very helpful. Almost always, snakes are considered powerful beings. I can’t tell you what your dream means to you, but I can offer some questions that might open up some good possibilities. What did the snakes look like, as exactly as you can remember? Size, colors, shape? Did you notice you wrote “dream” instead of “snake” at the beginning of your second report? I wonder if that indicates a connection for you between snake energy and dreaming itself. Was there any emotional reaction when the snake died? What did you throw? The presence of your sister, rather than your mother or a friend or some random person, naturally raises the question of how she relates to the snake. What is she, a witness, observer, mirror, by-stander?