Dream analysis - Snakes

Anyone good at dream analysis? I had one of those can't wake up from dreams this morning. It was all about snakes. I don't normally dream of snakes, but anyway.

I was in a big warehouse type space. I had a baby with me and I was going somewhere. At one stage I put the baby down and then I couldn't find him. Mum was exasperated with me for losing the baby, but I realised the baby had turned into a snake. There were a few small white snakes and I was trying to work out which one was my baby.

Later I was walking/running away. There was uneven ground and in a rock I was passing over was a big black snake. I didn't want to move too quickly in case it bit me so I was trying to be nonchalant about moving away. It was going to attack me though. Then I was back in a the big building and there were snakes climbing the walls. Also some on the floor, but not covered in a Raiders of the Lost Ark kind of way.

I remember being disturbed and confused but not scared. I was mostly worried about the fact I lost the baby whilst being careful about not being bitten. There was no grief feeling though. I didn't get the feeling the baby I lost was Leo, but a different baby (and no, I'm not pregnant :)) Though of course it could have been Leo. I don't know.

I know it's the subconscious processing things, but it was a big dream. I think there's something to it.

ps - thankful it wasn't spiders. they really do freak me out.

Hmmm, I am scared of snakes especially since we had a brown in our yard last year. I dream of snakes from time to time and usually they don't scare me at all but when I was pg for the second time I had a dream the night before a scan when I was 9 and a bit weeks. In the dream they were brown snakes and I was trying to chop theirs heads off with a shovel. I woke up and felt so bizzare and like I knew something bad would happen that day. I had my scan that afternoon and found that my baby had stopped growing within the last couple of days and I'd had a missed m/c. Saying that, to me you having a dream about small white snakes doesn't give off the same awful vibe that my dream did. I find white a very peaceful and calm colour. I think your dream may indicate the healing journey. The black snakes and snakes climbing walls showing that it is not an easy journey. I am in no means a dream interpretor I just find them to be fascinating. I have googled snake dreams lots of times which all indicate meaning of sexual nature but I never feel my snake dreams are of that nature, far from it. Thanks heaps for sharing hoping you get some other replies with more interpretations.

I'm not sure of the specifics of your dream, but one dream book I had a while ago said that snakes in dreams are representative of a male authority figure - usually a father or husband (it was an old book, so of course it assumed that your husband would be an authority figure :lol:)


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I've been dreaming of snakes a lot lately as well. I dream that they bite things around me but not me, in the last dream it was my dog. I've always thought snake dreams have to do with sex as well but like AJC they don't seem to be for me.

I've had really big dreams about snakes in the past. For me they have been about connecting with spirituality around sexual power - not about sex - but about healing the sacral chakra by integrating my masculine and feminine energies, and connecting with my body, and the spiritual/psychic energy that opens up when you're able to do this. In order to do this, I needed to heal some trauma that I was storing in that part of my body.

I'm not sure how that relates to your dream, but I think the symbolism of snake is a very profound/meaningful one, so it might take some letting it settle, and thinking about the feeling/energy in the dream, and what part of your life feels similar in order to identify what your subconscious is speaking about.

The other thing snakes represent is transformation (although I am prompted to write transfiguration - no idea why) - shedding the skin and changing into something new. That may be relevant to your dream also.


ETA - finally remembered the word I was after - transmutation!

Thanks all. I talked to my reiki lady last night about it. She mentioned snakes can be about sexuality and sensuality but also about renewal through the shedding of skin etc. It can be about a transformation as synchronicity said.

She mentioned the black snake is my deepest fear and not to confront it head on but to gently ask my inner self to let it go. Letting go of fear is always difficult, especially when there's already been so much grief, but I'm working on it.

I need to keep a dream diary. Some of them can be very interesting.

On the track of renewal, snakes can also symbolize healing (which plays into md's sexuality and chakras as well).

Perhaps your mind is entering a different stage of grief...one with renewal and hope.