First, the most obvious sign is potential danger most likely from something that is toxic in your waking life. Dreams About Snake Bitesĭreaming about being bitten by a snake has several meanings and, in fact, this imagery is quite common as a dream scenario. Being chased can also make you feel incredibly unsafe and vulnerable: These feelings may point to conditions that make you feel stressed, vulnerable, nervous, or anxious. At the same time, this dream might also be a sign that you are running from a toxic situation or condition that only you can rectify once you face it head on. This dream may be calling on you to take a closer look at the people you are dealing with and to reconsider whom you trust. Consider the word “snake” when used to describe the characteristics of a person: It represents someone sneaky, devious, or even potentially someone you might consider evil. Chase dreams are not at all uncommon, and often times the person/being/monster/creature chasing you is a symbol of one or more people you are currently dealing with in your waking hours. This is an interesting dream because it brings together chase symbolism with the symbol of the serpent.

Moreover, the snake in the bed might show some hostile feelings towards a romantic partner. With snakes in the bed, the emotion you experience at sighting them may indicate how you feel about sex, intimacy, and someone crossing into your personal space. Alternatively, snakes are associated with phallic symbols because of the shape of their bodies and are therefore a symbol of sexuality. Translated into waking hours, there is likely something the dreamer is doing or will be doing that incites a sense of danger, vulnerability, or the need to act quickly on the situation before acting on it is no longer an option. Dreams About Snakes In Your BedĪs the initial dream scenario presents, there’s nothing to make you feel oh so vulnerable than to wake up with a serpent coiled up nice and tight as it sucks up your body heat! To dream of snakes in the bed is to recognize your vulnerability, to feel as if you are in danger, to fear making a move lest you are bitten, and to pull back, act quickly, and run from the snake’s vicinity in an effort to protect yourself.

The Hopi Indians had a yearly dance to honor the union of Snake Girl and the Snake Youth, which were believed to renew nature’s fertility. In some cultures, however, the snake is a sign of fertility. Sigmund Freud considered snake dream imagery as a sign of sexual repression because of the snake’s phallic like qualities and believed the repression had to do with discomfort with male genitalia. Water also comes to represent the subconscious mind a snake in the waters in this context suggests diving into the subconscious for a period for the purpose of self-exploration, only to later re-emerge both changed and wiser than before. Water symbolizes emotions and with a snake symbolizing wisdom, this image may suggest the wise control of one’s emotions or wisdom derived from emotional experiences. The serpent is sometimes depicted as emerging from the cosmic egg. Water symbolizes the primordial waters of chaos, and with the serpent in the water may signify creation of the universe. The snake’s movements, actions, and the landscape the snake interacts with can be translated to offer meaning.Ĭonsider all of the following potential dream scenarios and how they differ: Dreams About Snakes in the Water Alternatively, if you have a special love for snakes, is there something in your waking hours that you are enthusiastic about? Is there something you can really “wrap yourself around” and become incredibly passionate about?įor further analysis, think about the action the snake is doing or not doing when you encounter it in your dream narrative.

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