Comments on: What do Dreams of Snakes Mean?

By: Kelly Bulkeley

Kelly Bulkeley — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:34:15 +0000

Thanks for sharing this! The fact that the snake’s bite penetrated your skin makes me wonder what the snake is giving you–poison? energy? fertility? The ankle is a vulnerable spot on our bodies. It doesn’t sound like you were too scared, is that right? Was your mother more scared than you? Depending on your religious background, snakes can be seen in positive or negative terms, so that’s definitely a factor. This is a guess, but perhaps you mother is scared you are growing up, becoming mature and independent?

By: tahira

tahira — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:34:12 +0000

Hi Kelly, last night I saw in my dream that a whitis ,brownish snake kept bitting my right ankle, I pulled that snake. Then looked at my rite ankle, 2 holes filled with blood. Then I told my mom She started to cry was praying for me and I didn’t feel and bad.

By: Kelly Bulkeley

Kelly Bulkeley — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:16:23 +0000

If it were me, I’d certainly tell my father about the dream, so he knows I feel concerned about him. The dream may not directly relate to him, but it might make you feel less anxious to share the dream with someone else. Plus, he may have something interesting to say about where the snakes are coming from….

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 16:39:22 +0000

I have had many dreams of snakes. My latest one, I was at an old wooden cabin by a lake. I was down by the water when I saw this snake, it was very huge and its skin had many different colors some that were glowing, this was at night time. The snake saw me and chased me, I was very scared, I got away, then I was down by the water again and the snake went by me again I could see the colors glowing in the night, this time I was not scared, as he went by I grabbed it by its tail end and it started to coil around my hand, that’s when I woke up.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 08:31:48 +0000

Hi,
I had dreams of Snakes from years,Different snakes (black and grey – multiple) they dont attack me in the dreams. But i always get scared of them and try to defend my self from them.
But I had a recent bad dream in which my house full of snakes (may be 5 or 6) Out of one is posionous snake attacking my father and I was trying to protect him from the snakebite.When i waked up from dream i visualized a coil cobra few feets away from my bed.

Can anybody help me out??? I m very scared after this dream.

ANDY

By: jot

jot — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:35:56 +0000

in my dream i saw me and my love was having fun..we went out for walk then i saw my love changing into snake in front of me i wasn’t scared nor frightened i was very relaxed as if i know it will not hurt me..after sometime i saw another with whom my love was playing after which the snake left and my love again changed into human …and we went away.

By: Kelly Bulkeley

Kelly Bulkeley — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:05:42 +0000

The motif of a special bond between women and serpents harkens back to Eve and the serpent in the Garden of Eden. You could explore a traditional symbolic possibility (snakes + women = danger) or a gnostic interpretation (snakes + women = spiritual wisdom). The second part of the dream puts the situation at a slight distance (the man) from the dreamer’s personal situation; is it happening to the dreamer, or to someone else? or some other part of the dreamer’s psyche? Whatever the snake symbolizes, the man tries to take it inside himself, incorporate it, transform it into his own body and essence, draw power from it. The ambivalence about killing the snake may mirror the ambivalent energy of the snake itself. The dream ends on a “heady” note, far from the woman at the beginning. If I were you, I’d start with her when reflecting on the dream.

By: SrS

SrS — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:05:35 +0000

Dream from last night:

I’m looking at an attractive and slightly mysterious woman who has a huge Boa wrapped around her neck – 1 foot diameter at its middle. The woman and snake are clearly benevolent toward each other. I like them, and am somewhat intrigued. The snake keeps twining and untwining itself about her neck until it finally decides to leave. When it does, it exits the scene by coming towards me. Its as if I’m on the “audience” side of the fourth wall, as in a theater, so I don’t see exactly where it goes, only that it exits the scene towards me.

Then in a next scene, a slightly rotund, middle-aged man with a small, dark moustache is going to prove that he can swallow a snake. He holds up a smaller snake – I think it’s a python or viper this time – and I see that it has a pink wound at the tiny part of its tail. He begins to swallow the snake about six inches at a time until all but the very last bit are down his throat. Then he extracts the snake by similar increments until it is entirely removed from his throat. As he takes it out, it’s very bloody. At that point, he places the snake on a table before him, cuts off its head, and quickly eats the head.

At that point in the dream, I feel ambivalent and slightly guilty about beheading the living creature, and, without consciously realizing I’m dreaming, I wonder if I shouldn’t revise the dream so that the snake doesn’t get killed.

Any responses?

By: Kelly Bulkeley

Kelly Bulkeley — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:45:13 +0000

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.

By: Kelly Bulkeley

Kelly Bulkeley — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:27:38 +0000

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?