Snake

Dreaming about snakes can be a complex experience as it can have different meanings depending on the context of the dream. In general, snakes are often associated with change, transformation, and shedding of old identities. Additionally, snakes can represent the healing, nurturing earth, knowledge, or primordial spiritual power.

However, it’s important to note that in Western cultures, snakes are often associated with evil, temptation, and deception. Being bitten by a snake in a dream can mean that you are accepting all parts of your nature as you grow into a stronger person. Snakes can also represent deep-seated fears or sexual fears with trauma or violation.

There are many different interpretations of snake dreams, and they may connect to various areas of our lives:

• Evil, source of evil
• Healing, rejuvenation, new life
• Sexuality, psychic energy, power of nature, intuitive wisdom, unconscious
• Guarding something, true and total self/personal development
• Wisdom, tree of knowledge
• Deep-seated fears or sexual fears with trauma or violation
• Change or transformation, shedding of skin, rebirth
• Healing force, spiritual awakening, kundalini, power and energy
• Temptation, confrontation with change in value system
• Shift in awareness, death of old paradigm, birth of new consciousness
• Fear and anxiety, pending situation that may cause harm
• Male genitals, warning against entering certain sexual encounter
• Heartless, cruel, treacherous
• Intelligence, change, understanding, revitalization of spirit, alterations in life
• Transformation, shedding of old identity, reinventing oneself
• Wisdom earned in facing and embracing shadow
• Phallic symbol, sexual healing or trauma
• Ability to release old incarnations, attachments, identities
• Evil, anger, envy, negativity in life that hampers progress
• Fertility, healing, nurturing, god of healing, anger, and envy

It is important to consider personal associations and details of snake dream as it can have different shades of meaning based on emotional response to the snake. Furthermore, different cultures have different interpretations of snake dreams. For instance, in some cultures, snakes are referred to as the awakening of spiritual power, known as kundalini, which is experienced as an incredible energy that undulates up the spine. Stimulating this can induce a tremendous healing force that has the ability to purify the nervous and glandular systems.

In conclusion, snake dreams can be a powerful force emerging from the unconscious mind. They can inspire great and varied personal emotions and, therefore, can ultimately connect to very different shades of meaning based on personal associations and cultural background.

If you are like most people and snakes arouse fear and loathing in you then if your dream focuses on a snake it may well turn into a nightmare. Snakes can often represent intimidating situations in waking life.

The most common dream is of a pit of snakes or piles of snakes lying on the floor around you; this may represent the many worries that are threatening you, or the poisonous words and innuendo of people around you. If, however, you admire snakes or keep them as pets, your dream is unlikely to have been sinister. Dreams that feature snakes poised to strike their victims with venom or suffocate them with their coils may be warning you about an emotionally cold person who is suffocating you in waking life. Is there a viper in your midst or a snake in the grass, someone who appears friendly but who is about to stab you in the back? Your dream may also have been influenced by Christian symbolism of the serpent in the Garden of Eden; the snake may have represented someone who is trying to tempt you to deviate from your moral code of conduct.

The snake’s positive associations date back to ancient Greece and Rome; the Greek god Hermes (the Roman Mercury), for example, bore two entwining snakes around his neck to symbolize the harmonization of two conflicting forces.

If the snake doesn’t try to attack or harm you in your dream, it may therefore be referring to physical or emotional healing that has begun in your waking life.

If the snake sheds its skin in your dream, this may indicate your desire to cast off the past. According to Freud, the snake is a phallic symbol so it could also denote repressed sexual urges or fears of masculine energy that are creating power issues in your relationships. Besides being an obvious phallic symbol, for Jungians the snake embodies the dark incomprehensible and mysterious aspects of the self that must be contained. In addition, in the Indian mystical tradition, the kundalini snake is a symbol of latent energy, instinct and sexuality, so your dream may also have represented your spiritual or intellectual awakening.

Pythons in dreams embody the power to dominate a situation by having a potent grasp on it. If, in your dream, the python is not a menacing but a benevolent presence, it is likely to be a reminder of your power to cope with a challenge by wrapping yourself around it. Pythons can also represent people or situations who are trying to put the squeeze on you in waking life. For example, a jealous lover who watches your every move or a financial commitment that limits your freedom to spend.

Dreaming of a snake can symbolize negative characteristics such as deceit, envy, and jealousy.

If you kill a snake in your dream, it may suggest that you have defeated an enemy. Owning a snake may indicate that you are gaining power.

If you find a golden snake skin in your dream, it could mean that you have discovered treasure. A horned snake may be a sign of good fortune.

(Boy; Contemptible person; Enemy; Hidden treasure; Idolatry, Innovators, Power, Unjust ruler, Woman)

A snake in dream represents a person who lives in a valley.

A snake in a dream also means enmity from one’s in-laws or children, or it could represent the evil and jealousy of one’s neighbor.

A sleeping snake in a dream means a sleeping enemy. As for an unjust person, a water snake in a dream means receiving help, or it could represent a verdict. Owning a snake in a dream means gaining power and authority. Its flesh represents enemy money, or it could mean joy.

If one sees himself wearing the skin of a snake in a dream, it means that he will unmask his enmity toward others. Killing a snake in a dream and staining one’s hands with its blood means destroying one’s enemy.

A snake in one’s dream also represents a rich enemy, for its poison means money.

If one sees snakes being killed in the streets in a dream, it means a war.

A small snake in a dream represents a little child. Hunting snakes in a dream means tricking or deceiving one’s enemies.

A black snake in a dream represents a strong-enemy.

A white snake in a dream represents a weak enemy.

If one sees a snake talking to him and saying nice words to him in a dream, it means enjoying pleasant moments with one’s adversary, or benefiting at the hands of one’s enemy. Ifthe snake talks harshly to him in a dream, it means suffering from tyranny and oppression caused by one’s enemy. Becoming a snake in a dream means being contemptible against one’s own religion. Seeingoneselfas a half-snake half-human in a dream means being able to neutralize half of the enemy’s power. Discovering a snake skin which is made from gold in a dream means that one will discover a hidden treasure.

If a snake swallows someone in a dream, it means that he will reach a powerful position. Ifone sees a snake sitting over his head in a dream, it means that he will earn the respect of people in authority.

A field which is covered with snakes in a dream represents a destructive rain.

A snake with a horn in a dream represents a profitable business. Black snakes and pythons in a dream represent army generals. Water snakes in a dream represent money. Ifone sees his garden covered with snakes in a dream, it means that its trees will bear fruits and exceed the normal crop.

A snake coming out of its hole in a dream represents a son.

A snake leaving one’s house in a dream means its destruction or demolition. Killing a snake in a dream means marriage. Tapeworms or other intestinal worms in a dream represent one’s relatives and their children. Seeing snakes eating on one’s table in a dream means separation between friends. Desert snakes in a dream represent highway robbers. In general a snake or a serpent in a dream representjealousy,envy, perfidy, swindlingpeople’s properties, deceit and an avowed enmity.

(Also see Belt, Sting)