Snake – in common with serpent dreams, snake dreams occur when we are attempting to come to terms with our more instinctive self. Inevitably this has to do with the recognition and harnessing of energies that have been suppressed and thwarted. Since the most primeval urge is sexuality, the image of the snake is the most primitive one available. Because snakes are such a low form of life, while also being in some cases poisonous, they have become associated with death and all that man fears.
A snake twined around the body or limb indicates some form of bondage, possibly being enslaved to the passions. A snake, or worm, leaving a corpse by its mouth sometimes represents the sexual act (the little death), but can also signify our control of our libido. A snake in the grass image denotes disloyalty, trickery and evil. The image of a snake with its tail in its mouth is one of the oldest available to man and signifies completion and the union of the spiritual and physical. Being swallowed by a snake shows the need and ability to return to the ultimate and lose our sense of space and time. Dreaming of a snake twined around a staff or similar suggests that the unconscious forces that drive us are being released to create healing, rebirth and renewal. The colours of the snake may give additional insight into the meaning of the dream.
Snakes
For a woman to dream that a dead s nake is biting her, foretells she will suffer from malice of a pretended friend. To dream of snakes, is a foreboding of evil in its various forms and stages. To see them wriggling and falling over others, foretells struggles with fortune and remorse.To kill them, you will feel that you have used every opp ortunity of advancing your own interests, or respecting that of others. You will enjoy victory over enemies.
To walk over them, you will live in constant fear of sickness, and selfish persons will seek to usurp your place in your companion's life. If they bite you, you will succumb to evil influences, and enemies will injure your business .
To dream that a common spotted snake approaches you from green herbs, and you quickly step as ide as it passes you, and after yo u had forgotten the incident to again see it approaching and growing in dimensions as it in ears you, finally taking on the form of an enormous serpent; if you then, after frantic efforts, succeed in escaping its attack, and altogether lose sight of it, it foretells that you will soon imagine you are being disobeyed and slighted, and things will go on from bad to worse. Sickness, uneasiness and unkindness will increase to frightful proportions in your mind; but they will adjust themselves to a normal basis, and by the putting aside of imaginary trouble, and masterfully shoulder ing d uties, yo u will be contented and repaid.
To dream that a snake coils itself around you and darts its tongue out at you, is a sign that yo u will be placed in a p osition where yo u will be p ower less in the hands of enemies, and you will be attacked with sickness. To handle them, you will use strategy to aid in overthrowing opposition. To see hairs turn in to snakes, fo retells that seeming insignificant incidents will make distressing cares for you. If snakes turn into unnatural s hapes, yo u will have troubles which will be dispelled if treated with indifference, calmness and will power. To see or step on snakes while wading or bathing, denotes th at there will be trouble where unalloyed pleasure was anticipated.
To see them bite others, foretells that some friend will be injured and cr iticised by you. To see little snakes, denotes you will entertain persons with friendly hospitality who will secretly defame you and work to overth row your growing prospects. To see children playing with them, is a sign that you will be nonplussed to distinguish you r friends from your enemies. For a woman to think a child places one on the back of her head, and she hears the snake's hisses, foretells that she will be persuaded to yield up some possession seemingly for her good, but she will find out later that she has been inveigled into an intrigue in which enemies will tantalize her. To see snakes raising up their heads in a path just behind yo ur friend , deno tes that you will d iscover a conspiracy which has been formed to injure your friend and also yourself. To think your friend has them under control, denotes that some powerful agency will b e employed in you r favor to ward off evil influences. For a woman to hypn otize a snake, den otes your rights will be assailed, but you will be protected by law and influential friends. See Serpents and Reptiles.