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]
I had a dream about a large thick python-type snake and it was beginning to wrap itself around a few friends (or they could have been anyone) I told them not to worry that although this was a large snake it was okay that it wouldn’t hurt them so I came over and started dragging this large snake away from these people. The sheer size of the snake scared me but I knew it wouldn’t cause me harm and so I continued to pull it away from the people. In the end my friends felt that we needed to kill this large snake. I helped them because I knew the snake was scary and that it was necessary but I felt a little sad about doing it….
I really NEED to know what this means…I dreamed that a snake bit my husband, and I was there with him in horror! And few months ago I dreamed we were in a house and I stood in my back porch with friends, while he sat at the dinner table with the guys, and a snake approached me at the porch and into the kitchen dinner table where my hubby approached the snake and saved me from being bit, rather it BIT him….why am I having dreams of snakes biting him? Dose it mean bad fortune, or illness?
PLEASE HELP ME!
smuzib@hotmail.com
Wouldn’t this mean you may be connected with animals.
Maybe these are just random dreams. Somhow, i highely
deny th fact that people are given these dreams to help
others.,
am i wrong?
My dream was I was in my bed sleeping and I wake up to feel the snake on my arm. I ask my boyfriend to get the snake off of my arm.I closed my eyes while he got ot off. We got up and I seen it again and call for my mother ( she is deceased now)when Ilooked back I could see the snake big glowing yellow eyes and we got out of the room and closed the door.
Hi,
I saw a dream in which i saw a very big snake, i saw that snake ate 3 womens alive and all the people were afraid of it. i was in a village where my uncle lives where i have not been from last 2 yrs. Later i saw that i went with my mom to see that large snake while it was sleeping. Suddenly thah snake waked up and we ran from there. THe snake followed me there. My mom , my brother and i were afraid of that snake but that snake smiled at us and said he liked our clothes. He wanted us to take to his home and meet his wife. We went to his house it was like a very old house with no lights and fans. all filled with darkness. I saw tea boiling on gas (old cowdung gas). I drank a little bit of tea. I saw her wife also . I dont remember what happened later. the face of the snake that turned into the man was not recognised by me.
Please tell me what does this dream means.
Regards,
Reshma Farooki
Even though the snake is very frightening and dangerous, it seems to have good intentions towards you. If I were you I would try to continue mastering my instinctive fear of the snake and see what it has to teach me.
Hello Dr. Bulkeley,
I keep having a reoccurring dream over the past few years that I am fighting a snake. In the dream I am usually trying to keep the snakes mouth shut from biting me. Every new dream seems to get more violent. For example, the last dream I had I was literally trying to choke the snake to death, but it wouldn’t die. It’s venom spewed out and felt like it burned my hands. Sometimes I think the snake bites me, but I never feel it and never see blood. I feel like I have to kill the snake in order to keep it and get a cure from the bite. I am always terrified in the dream and don’t see how it could be beneficial. Why do you think I keep having this dream?
Thanks,
Danny
Recurrent dreams usually have an important message, or reflect something important going on in our lives. I don’t know about your personal situation, but if I were you I’d be thinking about where I see/sense “snake energy” in my waking life. It could relate to gender (e.g. a conflict with instinctual masculinity), or “evil” in a Judeo-Christian moral sense, or perhaps the deep reptilian impulses in all of us that struggle against civilized consciousness. You might try Jungian active imagination to “re-enter” the dream in a meditative state and try to dialogue with the snake–what does it want? In history snakes have also been agents of healing, and a small amount of poison can inoculate people against worse poisons, so that’s something to consider too.
In my dream me and my girlfriend are sleep I then wake up to rattling I lift the blankets and she has it wrapped around her. Hand and it keeps getting close to my face and I can feel something hot but it never bites me but keeps tryin while she has it I then tell her to give me the rattlesnake by the head but its really slippery and I feel like I’m chokin it then I wake up what does this mean?
Hello Dr. Bulkeley,
I had a dream about 2 snakes and one had swallowed the other and later it came out of the mouth of the snake who had eaten it. the snake who had swallowed the other snake runs away and the remaining snake approaches towards me and my child. after a war i kill the snake. in coupl eof minutes the snake that had previously run away also comes into picture and i along with my child and some other ppl are trying to kill it.. could not see the later part of the dream. i have been feeling very uneasy since i had the dream and unable to arrive at any conclusion
Thanks
Bhavya
Good Day
I wonder if you could help me determine my very strange dream ?
I dreamt that I was walking through a large field, which had a high mesh fence around it.
All of a sudden snakes appeared on the field and started slithering towards me. They were various sizes and species,big black, brown snakes.
I ran towards the trees and climbed up a large oak tree. I then noted some snakes were
inside this tree, so I jumped over to the next tree and moved through the branches with ease.
Not sure where I obtained my weapons from, but I had knives and forkes on me and I started throwing the knives/forkes towards the ones on the grass, my aim was pretty good, I stabbed most of them in the head, well about 10 of them. I cleared the pathway at the bottom of the tree, climbed down and managed to reach the mesh fence, climbed over it and left the field and the rest I don’t remember….
I don’t remember feeling scared but I remember feeling in control.
i had a dream in which there was alot of different kind of snakes in my headboard not threating to bite me or anthing but just watching me sleep. I grabbed one and killed him and then I saw a earwig with scorpion claws laying on the bed clapping his claws and watching me. Help
Hi Kelly,
Today morning I had dream of Snakes.
In dream there was some different home in fields where we are living. (We don’t have such home)
Outside I am cleaning the surrounding of home.
And I see on wall small round formation of mud, I just take out little part on upside and see that inside that there are several snakes of different colours and they are moving on each other and theirs face is facing us I mean they are seeing us. I was seeing them and I am feeling very curious to see them as they are very beautiful of different colours which I have not seen such snakes in real life also- colours were White, off white, gray, brown. and they were very shiny.
Later I go to neighbours house- neighbours were also new I don’t know them- and they are telling that on their wall also there is some round mud formation is there- I am telling them that not to take it out but they already has taken out the some part of mud of it, and there also I see similar snakes of different colours moving on each other and theirs face is facing us I mean they are seeing us
Later I come inside home, and I am thinking that these snakes may enter in my home and I need to close the doors or do something to avoid them to enter in our house.
What does this dream means?
Dr. Bulkeley,
My dream is recurring, and has happened about 10 to 12 different times… its always very similar. i’m always having to walk through snakes…. the place may be different, but its generally snakes are laying on the ground and i have to carefully take steps to walk through them. they never try to bite me and only barely move but they are there and i have to step around them to travel along the path in the dream. one dream i was definately walking on a pond levee. the others i’m not sure of my surroundings except that it appears to be a grassy area… i would say the snakes are water moccasins or copperheads in my dreams…nothing fancy like cobras or anacondas or anything… just normal snakes….. any advice?
A recurring dream like that seems worth paying attention to. It sounds like the mood of the dream is potential but not actual danger. Given that the dream has occurred several times, it would make me wonder if it were a metaphor of life–walking along a path, aware of possible dangers on all sides, trying to stay calm and moving forward. So many snake dreams involve actual physical attacks that it seems important to highlight cases where the snakes do NOT harm the dreamer.
Hi Madhu! Your dream picks up on a theme that’s part of many snake dreams–the gaze, the eye-contact, seeing and being seen by the snake. It can lead to an appreciation of the serpent’s beauty, as in your dream, and it can in some cases lead to an appreciation for the snake’s intelligence and wisdom. The mud formations are curious; they sound like the simplest of earthen enclosures, which makes sense given the connection between snakes and caves, earth, the underground. I wonder about how best to relate to these snakes in your dream. What would happen if they came in the house? They seem to be getting close to home, appearing in the neighbor’s house, potentially coming in the door. I don’t know what the colors mean, that’s always a difficult aspect of dream interpretation. If I were you I would certainly draw or paint a colorful picture of this snake!
Hi Kelly,
I had a dream where I got up to go to the bathroom and in the bathroom were a bunch of small white snakes with black stripes on them. They didn’t hurt me at all but just were moving around a lot. I was not afraid of them but yet felt squirmish. I just went to the bathroom and went back to bed. What could that mean?
I dreamt that my dad was swallowed by a snake, what does this mean?
Today I Had a Dream about i was trying to cross a bridge with a friend. My friend slowed down and i yelled at him keep going because a Huge snake was behind us. He got my attention and told me a snake was also in front of us. At that time i tryed to run and couldn’t go anywhere because i was surrounded by snakes. I was barely across the bridge and i couldn’t turn around and run. At time a snake wrapped around my friend and pulled him through some grassy area. I kept trying to run but more giant snakes appeared. Another one of my friends came to try to help me but a snake quickly wrapped around him. When the snakes started to wrap around me 2 of my friends came and pleaded with the snakes to take them instead of me. The leader of the snakes said this ” 2 souls for 1″ and my buddy toold me that i was more important because i could save alot of peoples lives. At that time the snakes let me go and i walked completely across the bridge. I looked back and the snakes took my 2 friends who sacrificed themselves for me. But the strange thing was the snakes didn’t wrapp around them, They all just walked of into the bushes and then i woke up in tears. Someone Please Help me…. What does this mean
Hi…. I have had a recurring dream… my house is full of snakes.. all different kinds and they are everywhere… dripping over all of the furniture.. i end up running out of the house onto the back porch and there are two enormous snakes that begin to fight… i run at them and pull them apart. As I do so, the face of the snake on the right begins to change into another animal ( Cat maybe? the dream is always fuzzy on this) and then i wake up with a jolt. What are possible meanings for this???? It must be telling me something or I wouldn’t be having it repeatedly. Thanks so much
Hi Kelly,
Im wondering if you could enlighten me about a dream I had last night – I still feel very disturbed by it.
I was walking with one of my daughters (she is
along a street, she was preparing to be part of some sort of play / show and was wearing a long/ thick grass skirt … as we walked I saw a snake slithering in her skirt. Obviously, it frightened me and I think I woke up at this point … then when I feel asleep again we where sitting in a room with her on a chair next to me, I looked over and saw the snake again – this time I felt my mind turning over all the possibilities of how I could remove the snake without scaring her (she was unaware). It didnt seem to be threatening (strangely) it was just there! I just kept trying to work out how to help her … I figured I needed to keep her still, so that the snake wouldnt bite her, I played a game of who could hold completely still (but allowed her to move her arms / head) and was really struggling with the question of ‘do I tell her’ and risk her freaking out or be responsible for not telling her …
It was the most vivid dream, I can still ‘see’ this snake … it was brown with gold/yellow on it and very big, mind you I only really saw its head and a portion of its body – clearly a very large creature.
Can you please give me some indication of what it could mean? Im still reeling from it!
I had a dream that I had a snake it seemed it was a pet – it was black. and sometimes it would curl around me which I found slightly irritating but I wasn’t afraid of it. I din’t mind it roaming around in the room I was in but had to stop it going to other parts of the house in case it scared the other residents.
What does this mean?
I dreament of snake’s last night, every size and specie’s with one rather large one python type, i was not bit or threaten by the snake’s. i was alittle afraid of them and a exfriend whom i have’nt seen or talken to in years was trieing to capture them. I wish i would could remember more about my dream, maybe i’ll have another one tonight
That sounds like a powerful dream. To associate a snake “in the grass” with one’s pre-adolescent daughter, a theme of sexual maturation may be present. I hope that’s not an offensive idea! As the parent of a daughter myself, I certainly worry about snaky guys, probably more than she does.
That makes him part of the snake now. It suggests a dramatic transformation and a primal threat.
In my dream i was walking on a road, there were very big sized trees on both sides of the road and there were a lot of snakes on the trees. I was feeling good when i was seeing the snakes. But then a very big snake came to me and tried to bite me but i woke up, this is the only in which a snake tried to bite me. Else in any other dreams i just saw big snakes but they never tried to hurt me and i feel very good whenever i see snakes in my dream. Please tell me what can be the meaning of my dream.
Hi Kelly,
I ended my relationship with my girlfriend and that night I had a dream about snakes. In the dream there were several small snakes of which I knew they were of a poisonous species. I remember being nervous around them but not to the point of true terror, mainly just uneasy and nervous. One scene that really sticks out in my dream is where my sister was sitting in a chair holding one of the small snakes, i assume in a room, but Im not sure because the background was dark and the spot where my sister was sitting holding the snake was in a way “spotlighted”? I remember being nervous around the snake but my sister holding the snake was comfortable. I remember being afraid that the snake was going to bite me but mainly afraid it was going to bite her.
I am currently unhappy where I am at professionally and am seeking a new career in medicine. It is daunting to think how much preparation it is going to take to get accepted into medical school. Trying to build up the energy to start the preparation. Anyways, i discussed my new interests in medicine with my sister and family along with my struggles in my relationship. Perhaps thats why my sister appeared in my dream?
Anyways, any insight or comments you have about my dream would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Joseph
first and foremost, i own a ball python,”paz”.. whom i love dearly..i am not afraid of snakes, i have handled different snakes and reptiles, but i am not a crazy snake freak or lunatic or anything,,if anything im more of dog person, and ironically i like rats also..
i have this reoccuring dream, where im handling my snake and then lay it on my bed, and then when i turn around there are multiple snakes slithering around calmly. they are always smaller than my snake and i always pick them up and put them in a tank. they are always peaceful and have never bite me or been aggressive. i seem to have a need to save them and keep them from escaping. the number of snakes have varied from like over 50 to like 7, and there is always an extremely large snake (10-15 feet) in all my dreams, whom i also handle and try to secure..i usually feel panicked and over run by so many snakes that i have to capture..and that is about it..sometimes the snakes start to mate which is kind of cool..but im just confused to any symbolism this may have, because all of the imagery and symbolism of snake dreams seems to be negative, and my dream imagery seems to be positive..any comments? concerns? suggestions?let me know, thanks!!
Hello,
I dreamed about this man that I am not interested in last night he was standing naked and below him was this nake slithering kind of erotic. The man was smiling. This guy has been trying to ask me out but I am not interested plus I do not date co -workers. The last time I had the dream about him and it was a anaconda snake and I was holding on to it wrestling it. But it was very sexual because I was actually having sex with the man. It will never happen.
Hi,
I had a dream where I was with a friend and we went through a door and on the other side was a male lion lying in the grass. I was immediately intimidated and wasn’t sure what to do. Then I started feeling a female lion rubbing her head up against my back. I was terrified and unsure. She never did any thing but push her head on my back like a kitty who wants attention. Then all the sudden I am with a snake that is now doing the same thing but rubbing on my arm. It was a very vivid orange and yellow snake. I knew I was supposed to look in its face to see what color the eyes were – that somehow mattered. At first, I couldn’t make out what color they were because the snakes eyes were so well camouflaged. Then I finally saw it had red eyes. At that point the dream was over.
Any interpretation you would like to share would be most welcome. Thanks
I had a dream of a huge group of small of group snakes both big and small moving all over me as I trip and fell, and a huge snake from the group quickly paced on to me and bit me on the back, I started screaming for my friend and he passed me a stick to hold on to, the pain seemed to be excruciating because I was screaming my lungs out, my dad woke me up in reality saying I was screaming out my friends name what does this mean?
@Dunn
I also had the same similar exact dream that you had. Snakes of all species that even I dont know wether they existed. There were lot of them. I wouldnt have even seen that much in movies too. And yea I was not afraid of them. Instead I was very comfortable even though I had a little fear
Hello,
I recently had a bad dream about a small child like woman that wanted to show me a cat that was in pieces. She took me to this dark area and pulled out a cat that started talking to me about how much he didn’t feel good. I then realized the cat had a very large snake eating him alive. I saw parts of the snake coming out of its body and saw a tail coming from the head of the cat. I then told him we were goin to perform surgery and put him under in order to make him feel better, but instead we really were goin to put him to sleep (euthanize) because it was too late to save him. I was very disturbed by this dream. I don’t know what it means?
Thank you.
Yeah, that’s a grim one. I’d be curious to know how you feel about cats. As a cat-person myself, I would be especially upset! Violent dreams often symbolize life transitions, when many old aspects of life are “dying” and the mood is fearful and uncertain. The small child-like woman might represent an under-developed aspect of yourself? There’s a sense here you’ve gone to a very deep part of the unconscious psyche. It sounds like in the dream you were going to do the surgery? Or at least knew about it? To me that sounds like an intelligent, caring approach that your dream ego brings to this situation.
Dear Sir,
Good Day!!
On 10-05-2011 early morning @ around 1.55 am I got up for a nature’s call and then slept. Got up at @ 6.50 am when the alarm ringed. In between I had a dream where in 3 Headed (ferocious) snake was insisting not to go towards the direction it was pointing (Something like it did not want me to go in that direction. If I proceeded it would have taken me to task or even attack me). So, I took opposite direction and on the way (in the dream) I saw Gorrillas/Chimpanzees on the right side living happily with their kids. They did not harm and were quite while I was passing that route. Then I woke up.
Please help me what does this mean.
Regards
Murthy
I’m not sure if you have any actual waking contact with snakes or primates, but assuming these are symbolic creatures, your dream seems to be pointing you toward the realm of mammalian nurturance and away from mythic reptilian energy. If it were my dream, I would wonder where I see happy parents and children in the world–am I moving towards them or away from them?
This morning, I had a dream of a red/black snake. It was not a big snake however in the dream, I was sleeping in my bed. I felt something crawling, when I woke up it was the snake on my arm. I threw the snake off of me and went back to sleep. Then, I felt it again on my leg, this time when I pick it up, it mouth was open as if the snake was about to bit me. I threw it again and it landed at my feet, then I woke up from the dream.
Not sure what this mean? Can you give me some feedback on this dream?
hello,
i dream that a green snake was trying to kill go inside both of hamsters cage but when i would see that happening i would blow air at it and the snake would go away.i tried to save my pet hamsters but when i
turned around they were already dead, and some were drowning inside of the cage. The snake was after
me as well,he tried to bit my mom but she hit the snake.in the whole dream that green snake kept staring
at me in the eyes. what would this mean?
hi…i really need to know what this means.i dreamt that there were snakes in my house,everywhere i went there was a snake but they didnt do anything they just stayed there and stared and when i tried to show my uncle and sister they disappeared.what does this mean?????
If the snakes were not threatening, I’d take that as a sign of insight rather than danger. The dream seems to offer a private revelation: these mysterious creatures are everywhere, but only I can see them.
This sounds very scary! The gaze of a snake seems to have special power, as if their eyes were reflecting an alien kind of intelligence that we humans struggle to understand. For that reason, snakes are often symbols of the unconscious mind, the part of our psyche that feels “alien” to the conscious self. The pet hamster is no match for the powerful snake energy. Your mother seems to respond with strength, however. If it were my dream, I would tell my mother about it and ask what she thinks.
Hmm, a dream like this sounds like it merges sleep postures and bodily sensations with snake imagery. I wonder if your body were more peaceful when you went to sleep, you would be less likely to have such a disturbing dream. Could the snake attack represent something connected to physical stress? Or to a feeling of being unsafe before going to sleep?
i had a dream about a california king snake ( black and white) in my bedroom. what does this mean?
I had a terrifyling dream last night. For one snakes are my biggest phobia that I have, i am absolutely terrified of them. I had a dream I was outside and there was a flowerbox with a bunch of snakes in it, and this man approached me and said these black snakes are everywhere and for some reason I put my hand in and one of the snakes bit me on the thumb and wrapped its body around my arm and wouldn’t let go. I tried pulling it and tried to shake it off and nothing would work, then the man said to me that if I got bit by that snake it was gonna take 10 years off my life. It was the weirdest thing ever, I woke up in a panic, sweaty, and was scared. I need to know that this means??
I had a dream one minute I was out with coworkers eating. Then another scene with a woman who her little girl out of the house to punish her. I let her back in. I was playing with her and other people were coming in talking and bringing food in and eating. I was walking and looking for something, pulled something back and there was a snake looking right at me, coiled with its head up, black small diamond shaped head, looked like diamonds on body. I jumped right out of sleep.
i dreamed about lots and lots of snakes then one attack me and my brother my family was in my dream but then my neibor saved us while 9 was scared to death
does it have a meaning?
i dreamed about lots and lots of snakes then one attack me and my brother my family was in my dream but then my neibor saved us while i was scared to death
does it have a meaning?
i look the 2 snake is biting me.what is the mean?plz tell me
Hi! Good Day Dr. Kelly!
I also had a dream last night and some other nights about snakes. In my dream, there were three black snakes and it seemed we were of close relationship that we slept together as if they were my kids. Though im a little bit afraid of sleeping with them, i just thought that they won’t bite me because they came from me as if i’m their mother. The two were too movable kept moving around me while the other one was so till sleeping with me with open mouth and close eyes lying straight beside me. THe other two kept on moving but i didn’t mind them at all. I wasn’t that in total asleep, as if my eyes were just close but im conscious about the things around me. Then i felt aches on my knees and then when i really woke up from that sleep, i confessed to a friend that my snakes bite me and she said that we should see a doctor about the wounds i got and she told me that those snakes shouldn’t have done biting me on my knees because im their mother. Im really worried now and a little bit confused why im dreaming about snakes lately. Will you help me of the meaning of my dreams. Hoping for your enlightenment on this dream. Thank you and hope to hear from you.
I had a dream about someplace similar in shape to my homes hallway and I was staring straight above me it was an enormous python and it was shelling and i could see the shells of its skin, it was getting bigger as I staired and I froze and screamed to my son to get out of the house and not get closer and he ran, then I did not see my son get closer but then it fell on me but did not touch me! It was curling to bite at me as It was falling. I was sweating when I awoke. Scary dreams of various nature usually happen to me when I sleep in the middle of the day as did this one. You may say something about enemies bit these days everybody has enemies and the truth of it is usually they are all more afraid of you than you are them but this aprticular dream was frightening and I searched about it and it was just as ambigious as I thought it be as if I were asking muy grandmother to tell me what it meant and when I ask her again she would tell me a different version. Anyway I was scared adn if yoyu can help thanks