Dream Prophesy

ok i had this dream last night, it was about a blonde girl who actaully was a snake…she didnt look like a snake but she was a snake nonetheless…the only way to capture the snake was to give her some sort of drug which was prescribed by a snake expert, who was also in the dream…

what does this mean?!

God knows I would have woke up screaming as well! What a wild dream.

The first dream symbol to look at is, of course, the snake. Snakes are believed, by most, to be a bad sign in dreams. Ancient dream guides would have you to believe that all manner of evil will come down upon the person who dreams of snakes. Thankfully, this isn’t the case - since everyone dreams of snakes at one time or another.

The first thing to ask yourself, after a dream about snakes is this, “Have I seen a snake in person, on tv, in a book, or in the movies in the past 5 days? Or Have I read about snakes in the past week?”

If the answer to either is “Yes,” the dream is probably just a result of that.

However, if you have had as little to do with snakes as possible (like me!) - then the snake is symbolic for something else. Dream snakes, unlike those in the “real world,” represent pretty positive things. For one, they often symbolize healing. After a break-up, an illness, or a bout with the blues - a dreamer will often dream of snakes to symbolize that they’re healing and that the healing is nearly complete.

Why snakes in dreams take on this meaning is beyond me. I honestly can’t draw any line from one to the other - except that maybe snakes are one of everyone’s greatest fears, and facing them is the way to heal from this fear. It’s the only way I can even begin to explain it - but, nonetheless, they do symbolize healing.

Another thing that’s interesting about dream snakes is that they represent energy. This can be different kinds of energies: They can be sexual energy, extreme ambition, geared toward school, work, a relationship, working out, weight loss, quitting a bad habit, etc. This goes hand in hand with the “healing” aspect because anyone who has been sick knows the way you feel when you’re well - you have so much energy you want to take on the world….it feels so good to feel good again! The same’s true when a broken heart heals, you have an energy to get out there and try to get it right this time.

The specifics of the dream, the fact that she gave chase - and the fact that you couldn’t destroy her - leads me to believe that, IF your dream is about healing, your healing is nearly complete, but not quite. If it were totally complete, I feel that you would have had the upper hand. However, the fact that you made contact with the rock shows that you are in control. Something that is very, very interesting is the fact that your mind made the snake a female (complete with a wig!). This would indicate that there is a female involved in the picture somewhere. She’s not necessarily blonde, either. The mind could have simply chosen that as a strong contrast to the snake - to be sure you got the picture that it was a femme fatal you were dealing with.

Also, by the nature of the dream, I think that there is a great deal of energy around you right now. Things you want to do, places you want to go…that sort of thing.

Thanks for sharing your dream - and if you are in the process of healing from an illness, loss, or disappointment - I hope the healing’s complete by the time you read this. Now go make all of that energy work for you!

Thanks for sharing your dream - it was a fascinating one!

Joi

I haven’t been posting much lately on the blog, but I have some very good reasons. For one, I’ve gotten a very large amount of PRIVATE dream requests lately. So, most of my dreamology work has been taking place in e-mail. Something interesting that I’ve noticed - whenever something very traumatic happens (such as the tragedies at VT), people’s dreams become more troubling. So, I hear from more dreamers then than ever before. Whether we actually realize it or not, events like this shake us to our core. They make us aware of the world in which we live, and frankly, that can be very unsettling.

I’ve also been working a lot on a Forum for this website. For whatever reasons, I’ve found that people seem to prefer talking on forums than blogs a lot of times. And I want the communications to go both ways here. So, I thought we’d just provide more opportunities for more communicating!

The Forum should be up and running by Monday….Tuesday, at the absolute latest.

I often say that you should pay particularly close attention to how you feel in your dreams. The reason is that a very, very large percentage of your interpretation lies in this very area. Sometimes, our dreams will give us insight in to how we’re actually feeling about things/people/events in our lives. The funny thing is, it’s often news to us!

A perfect example lies in a dream submitted over 2 years ago.

In a dream submitted to a little over 2 years ago, the dreamer, “Kate” was having very troubling dreams. In them, something bizarre and unpleasant would happen….every night. One dream involved her being wrongfully blamed for something at school (where she’d been a teacher for 12 years). Her best friend knew she was innocent but was afraid to speak up. She was fired and the friend got her old room, her desk, and her students.

The other dreams she described were similar. There would be SO MANY different emotions involved with these types of dreams that I had to give her an exercise to do, to get at the root emotion.
I knew the initial responses would be frustration and sadness - but they’re like the skin on an apple: Important, but not nearly as important as the fruit inside! I wanted her to get past the “skins” known as frustration and sadness and get to the fruit of the main emotion.

I told her to draw a staircase on a piece of paper. The staircase was to have only five steps, but each step should be long enough to write on. Then I told her to think about how she felt in the dreams. Then to start at the bottom and write down the emotions as they came to her mind. I assured her that when she got to the MAIN emotion, she’d feel the strongest about it. So I wanted her to pay particularly close attention to her body language and feelings during the exercise.

She said that on the first step she wrote sad. Because in each of the dreams she felt sad that she was being treated unfairly, or sad that something was going on that she didn’t want to go on! The next emotions she wrote down were frustration and shock. She detailed WHY the dreams made her feel this way, but she still didn’t seem CONNECTED to the emotion(s).

Then it happened. She said that right before she wrote the next emotions, she could feel her jaw clench and her hand muscles tighten. Then she finished the steps with anger and resentment. Kate went on to let me in on what was going on in her real life. Her husband had recently been given a promotion - one that was very important to him and highly rewarding. The only drawback was that it involved a move, nearly across the country! They had lived in northern Minnesota all of their life, but they were on their way south - as his promotion would carry them all the way to Birmingham, Alabama!

She was excited to see different places and very, very excited to see the new house and get started with a fresh new life, BUT she said she’d always been insulted that he never really asked her how she felt beforehand. She said that, if he had, her answer would have been the same - go for it! However, she really resented that he never treated her opinions or her career as being on equal ground as his.

She said that when she wrote down those emotions, it was like a huge light came on. The first words to come to her mind were, “No wonder I’m having these headaches! No wonder I’m on edge!”

I encouraged her to talk things out with her husband - because from the way she’d described him (and the white horse he rode on!), I was certain he never even realized what he’d done. Turns out, he thought he was doing the best thing for her. In a situation that seemed like he was thinking only of himself, he was actually putting her first.

The year before, she had lost both of her parents in a car accident. Two years before that, she’d gone through a series of surgeries, herself, that had literally saved her life. He wanted, more than anything, to take her away from an area that had been so cruel to her and give her a fresh start in a beautiful, warmer place! (Since the surgeries, the cold weather was particularly painful for her.)

After they talked, she said every feeling of anger had been replaced. It was reassuring for her that he wasn’t being selfish, at all. He had been thinking of her the whole time. (Which, Kate said should have been obvious since he’s the one with parents still living in Minnesota.)

She took him out to eat that night and, two weeks later e-mailed me to say the bad dreams had ended entirely!

Give this exercise a try with your next strong dream. A Strong dream is one that stands out as being emotionally charged or memorable. Weak dreams often aren’t even remembered - that’s because they aren’t important. The strong ones are where the good stuff lies!

When you do the Emotional Step exercise, pay close attention to your body language and emotions. When you get to the emotion that makes you FEEL the most, you’ll know you’ve arrived at the heart of the matter.

Sweet dreams!
Joi

P.S. If you’re reading this, Kate, I’d love to hear how you’re doing in Alabama!