From I Hate Snakes in Virginia!
I had a dream three nights ago that I can’t shake. I was in the yard, at a picnic or something like that. I looked down and saw a snake coming toward me in the grass. No matter where I tried to run, there he was following me. I felt so scared and helpless because no matter where I went, he came.
I ran into a circus type tent and thought I was safe. But then the ring leader, who looked more like a talk show host, held the snake up in the air and started walking toward me with it. The snake still had grass on it and was, at first, playing dead. Then he reared up and looked really angry. I knew he was mad that I had tried to get away from him. Thankfully I woke up before the ringleader and the snake got to me.
I can’t get this dream out of my head and keep expecting a snake to be everywhere. I hate snakes anyway, so this is a really horrible deal for me. Any help would be greatly appreciated. It may sound silly, but I don’t even want to go outside.
I can totally relate to you – snakes are one of my own biggest fears, so I don’t think it sounds silly. You will get over this feeling in a few days, though, so don’t worry about it too much.
A few things strike me about your dream.
- The fact that you said you couldn’t “shake” the dream and that it is affecting you so strongly that you expect a snake to be “everywhere” mean a great deal. It takes a particularly powerful and vivid dream to stay with a dreamer like this. This is almost always an indication that there are extremely strong emotions tied to the interpretation of this dream.
- Most dreams involving snakes stay in our minds because of a snake’s symbolism. We associate snakes with satan to a great extent, thanks to the Garden of Eden. It’s hard to get any scarier than that, right?! Even thought any animal could have been used to speak to Eve, the fact that satan chose a snake stays with us.
- Your snake was so persistent! This is another indication of the importance of this dream’s interpretation.
- The fact that you said you were scared and felt helpless are huge.
This dream seems to indicate that you are feeling more helpless lately than you have ever felt before. Because of the impact this dream is having on you, I’d say that feeling helpless is a feeling you aren’t at all familiar with. The fact that your subconscious mind chose something you hate so passionately (snakes) is a clear indication of the inner turmoil you’re feeling. You probably aren’t even fully aware of just how much stress you’ve been under or how helpless you’ve been made to feel.
Once you realize that the snake in the grass was merely symbolic for this emotion, you’ll realize that you don’t have anything to fear around the next corner – not even outside! This snake in your dream only symbolizes whatever it is in your day to day life that you feel helpless against.
When you find a way to deal with this particular problem, you will have won the battle!
Until then, here’s something to keep in mind about snakes – so many of us are afraid of them, but we can’t name one single person we know who has ever been bit by one. Yet, most of us can name several people who’ve been bit by dogs or cats – yet we aren’t afraid of them in the least! Or cars – most of us know of people who’ve been badly hurt in car wrecks, but we get into them every day without fear. I, myself, have been in 3 car wrecks and have never been approached by a snake EVER, yet I’m terrified of one and can’t imagine life without the other.
Try to focus on solving whatever it is in your life that has made you feel helpless and overcome it. Try not to dwell too much on snake dreams. When you do think about it – be thankful! He may have helped draw attention to something in your world that you need to address before it gets the better of you.
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I’m a 6’5″ ex-football player (I played in highschool and college) but I am scared to death of snakes. I’ve been dreaming about them the past week and each night gets a little scarier. What do I have to do to make the dreams stop? I’m almost ready to just drink red bull and stay up all night.
Paul,
Don’t do that just yet! When a dream is hounding you and hounding you the best thing to do is the hardest thing to do: Don’t think about it AT ALL. Right before going to bed, watch something totally engrossing – like a great movie (the first Pirates of the Caribbean, Sweeney Todd, Wanted, or one of the Bourne or Ocean movies). You know, a movie that you’ll think about for a while even after it goes off.
I’d much rather you dream about pirates, Angelina Jolie, or singing murderous barbers than snakes!
We give our dreams the freedom to put themselves on repeat cycle when we dwell on them. It’s tough not to do sometimes, I know. Just try to think about anything and everything else though, Paul If you like books, grab a Dean Koontz book like Odd Thomas or Watchers. He’s excellent at getting inside your head.
Besides, he’ll scare everything that’s in there OUT!
Good luck and sweet dreams…. I’m with you, snakes are the evil.
I hate snake’s more then anything!! I’m very scared of them. But last night I had a dream that in my room there was 3 snake’s small ones and they where under my bed. And I did not mind it at all. They never really moved or anything they would just stay curled up. And I would always check and see if they where still under my bed. But one went missing and I freaked out!! What does this all mean!!!
Nikki,
The fact that the snakes didn’t seem to bother you indicates that you were and are at peace with something in your life that had been causing you trouble.
I had a similar type of situation myself not long ago. I HATE snakes more than anything, too… I’m terribly afraid of them. I actually think it’s a phobia. I had been dreading something that I had to do online for a long time (it involved re-doing a website and I was half-afraid that it’d kill the site). As it turned out, the whole thing went perfectly well, without one single problem! That night, I had a dream about a snake that I actually liked – I even talked to the fool thing in my dream and called it “sweetie.” UGH!
The fact that I overcame something that scared me sort of played out in the dream – and I think the same thing happened with you. You probably overcame something scary or had an experience that turned out to be not as bad as you thought it would be.
The missing snake (oh, Lord, can you imagine?!) indicates that you may have something ahead of you that you are also kind of worried about or apprehensive of. Good luck!
hello, last nite i dreamed that i sensed a snake in my home. so with my sense i looked and found it hiding and tryin to get away,it was yellow and white in block form kinda like the corral snake yet white and yellow. i took it and let it go outside wrapped in a magazine,newspaper something,and it started back to my house again. not sure what happened after that.any ideas what this means at all?
hi, i had a dream about 2 snakes dis morning.1 was long & other was small but thick. in my dream, i was in a metro station, nobody was entering that station but i was not aware of the reason. having nothing in mind i went inside & saw a snake, a long one running after me, i tricked him & made it jump off the roof & boldly came outside. with no reason, i went inside that station again & saw a small one running after me. i was scared but this time, jumped from 1st floor & came outside safely. again i went in & this time, small snake was about 2 jump at me when it suddenly died.. when had a look around i saw that there was a man spraying some poison to kill snakes, i guess he was a worker there..
3 things that i have noticed in my dream are:-
1) snakes were running only after me.
2) i was entering that station again & again, when i knew that i could get hurt .
3) i was a little scared but still had the courage to confront them.
I had a dream of snakes one time. In fact, even though dream experts say you cannot have a dream twice, I still believe I had this dream twice. I’ll give the short version of the dream and not bore with all the fine details, unless you want me to do so in another post. ok, here goes….
(This entire dream is in black and white, I usually dream in color) I find myself sitting in an old run down house. the wall, floor, celing, even the furniture, was old and worn out. I am sitting on a love seat, with no shoes on, my feet propped up on the chair. All over this house, the floor, furniture, everywhere, were every poisonous snake that exists in the world, slithering all over the place. They are slithering all over me. I remember one cobra slithering down my chest, down my leg, and biting me on the big toe. It didn’t hurt though, and there was no blood. (I happen to love snakes, so I remember this dream with great fondness) I see a door with a window in it that leads outside. I look through the window and it’s just and grey and dismal outside, as it is in the house. I remember thinking, “I need to get out of this house”. As I think that, I see that the snakes on the floor, parted, and left a trail of bare floor, that lead out the door. I quickly jumped up, ran toward the door, and before I knew it, I was outside. I look to my right and see an old worn out bike leaning against the house. You know the one, with the goosebar handlebars and tassles, and the banana seat. The one speed bike. I pick it up and begin walking it to my right, toward the front of the house and toward the road. I get to the front porch and i see two cobras that seem to be upright, as in constant strike mode, slithering back and forth on the length of the porch. They looked like they were guarding something. I look to the other end of the porch and see an old pair of tennis shoes. I seem to know that they were my shoes, as I was still barefoot after running outside from the house. I put the kickstand down on the bike and I am determined to get those shoes. I wait till the snake’s backs are toward me as they are slithering the other direction, and they are almost to my shoes. I then jump up on the porch, run toward the shoes, and quickly grab them from in front of the snakes, then turn around and run. As I’m running I notice the shoes are also old and worn out, with holes in them. I jump off the porch, grab the bike and start running toward the road. I’m pushing the bike as I’m still holding the shoes in my left hand. I get to the road and turn left. As i’m running, not riding the bike, I look behind me and see every snake that was in that house, behind me, chasing me, moving almost like how an inchworm moves. The head of the whole pack, out in front, were the two snakes on the porch, guarding my shoes. I look forward again as I’m still running, and I wake up.
It’s been many years since I had this dream but i still think about it from time to time. I still remember it in great detail too. Sorry this is so long. LOL!!
namaste sir , i am from nepal. last night i dream a snake it was chasing me. i was running but it was running after me and finally it bite me .i want to know that what does it mean when it bitre me on dream ?when it bite me then i suddenly wake up from my dream
When you dream of snakes your suppose to kill it. Dreaming of snakes means you have enemy weather you know it or not.
I had a dream about a snake but i can not remember what color it was. I started walking up the stairs and there was a lady on top of the stairs looking down at me when all of sudden a snake came in between us and started chasing me . I fell to the bottom of the stairs I grab a chair holding it back then I gave in and let the snake bite my head. I felt at peace after the snake bit me. What does that all mean?
ok last nite i had a dream bout my grandmother who had passed away and she was calling me to the house we use to live in and as i was bout to run up da grass to her house i seen a snake in the grass. So I stopped and went around and there was a gray snake there and i ran from it. But when i was bout to run in the house it was a red and black snake that jumped out at me when i touch the door knob like it wanted to get in. So i ran away from the door and the red and black snake kept jumping up at me. I shook me so bad i woke up and wrote on a peace of paper a quick note about what the dream was about. I stayed woke for bout 10 mins scared i was gonna have the same dream. then i finally went to sleep but when i woke up the dream was still fresh in my head.
Please tell me what this dream means.
I had a dream where there was a man I never met before and we were at my friends old house she no longer lives at and two snakes came at us, the man I was with caught one snake and threw it over our heads and it did not come back but when I threw the snake I caught it came back around and was growing larger as it came at me. The snake tried to attack me and then I grabbed it and threw it over our heads so far out of sight and it did not come back. I do not know why but the man I was with I felt a great fondness for and I felt very safe after that.
I used to have dreams about yellow and red snakes but I havent had one in a long time. These snakes were light green and black
I have been dreamin about snakes for a while now. I remember most of the dream related to the snake… This all started a year back I would say after I graduated from school. One time I saw 5-7 headed snake chasing me through paddy field. It was pitch black in color and would raise itself when I stood in front of it. It never bit me though. In fact, so far all the snakes in my dream have never bit me, they just chase me around. They bite others whoever is in my dream but except me.
This other dream about snake was something like this:
I was in a big cruise ship and this ship was sailing through some sort of lake where the water was very murky. The lake was surrounded by land and trees on both side. Many creatures very swiming in that water. The strange part is all the animals/creatures like deer, rabbit, swan very 3 times there normal size would be. Then suddenly I noticed our ship was in admist of gaint brownish cobra-ish snake pool. Every where there where snake and each of them 3 times bigger in size and length crawling surrounding our ship in the water. I got horrified by the sight and woke up.
Again another day I dreamed about snake once again. This time though the snake was super small in size. I guess a baby snake chasin me around but didn’t bite me.
Yesterday again I dreamed about snake. This time again I was surrounded by so many snake of different variety and chased by them. At one point I thought it was gonna bite thats when I woke up from the sleep.
I have no clue why am I dreaming so much about these snakes. I hate snake and it is not that I think of them and go to bed. They just happen to come in my dream every now and then and scare the hell out of me. pls let me know if you what goin on with such pattern of dreamin or its significance
I had a dream where there was a black and green boa constrictor in someones room and everyone was freaking out it looked as though it was dancing and then they freaked out even more when it escaped the room and went outside onto the deck. I managed to grab it by the neck with minimal struggle and brought it back inside where the snake calmly went over and sat behind the sofa it was not a threat to me it liked everyone except one person and I can remember who. What does this all mean the snake just sat there.
I dreamed about a snake that emerged from a clump of grass. At first it was still and then it began to move. I put my foot on it and it turned it’s head as if to bite me but it didn’t. I wasn’t afraid, I was calm despite the fact that in real life I’m afraid of snakes. The snake didn’t seem like it wanted to harm me.
I am fascinated by this dream because it is still so clear in my mind even though I dreamed it two nights ago. What does it mean?
last week saturday I was dreaming and I seen my ex-boyfriend in the form of a snake with the face a human. Its really scared me. as i looked at him I felt as If my heart was beating faster and faster. He laid there right in front of my house. He told me that he’s been watching me everywhere I go. we ended on a bad note and are on bad terms. we were a homosexual couple.
Hi:
Last night I had the most vivid dream. A huge, almost a cartoonish snake like the ones in lord of the rings, actually just like that scary, huge awful snake was trying to attack me and I start running as fast as I can and it chases me on the ground, kinda running too. Just as I felt it at my back I leap into the air, like I can almost fly and the snake keeps running moving forward. I literally, can still see the snake underneath me as Im in the air and it just keeps going underneath me never looking back at me or hurting me. I remember being so scared, like I was going to die and then when it kept going I was confused but at ease a little. Other weird part is I cant picture a person with me but I keep feeling like there was someone else there. Maybe a male friend or something. I cant get the dream out of my head all morning and want to understand it more. Ideas?