Snake, (suborder Serpentes), also called the serpent, of more than 10,700 extant species of reptiles recorded in the Reptile Database, making reptiles one if the most unique and diverse types of vertebrates in the world. The snakes are known for their legless characters and stretched body and tail. Snakes are often considered as a bad omen and misjudged because of our unfamiliarity, oblivious of their true nature.
But what does it mean to dream of snakes surprisingly, even though you are thinking or you haven’t seen one. The dream can represent unconscious motivations, feelings, thoughts, desires and wishes according to the famous book ‘The Interpretation of Dreams’ by Sigmund Freud.
The snake is a symbol of rebirth and transformation, an omen of good fortune and health, and a symbol of wisdom and strength. Sometimes, death, lies and temptation. Nonetheless, the snake has opulent background and uncanny significance in our history.
Snake Bites
If you have seen in your dream that a snake has bitten you, it is usually symbolizes of your fears in real life. Stress caused by traumatic events, such as death of love once, sexual abuse or accident. When we have many difficulties and problems in our lives, we usually dream about a snake biting you. It is a wake up call and warning that we need to recalibrated and change our minds and lifestyle to find our inner peace and balance in life. Sometimes, it might be a warning that you might experience ~ a big change in your life.
Killing Snakes
These dreams can be frightening, but in general they indicate good and bad thing. It may represent a feeling of powerlessness in the face of external conflict or some people are deceiving you behind your back. It may shows having restrained rage at a particular person.It may portray alarm and anxiety of missing that particular person or that relationship ~ afraid of losing and forgetting this. Sometimes it symbolizes as a sign of recovery and you will gain your inner peace soon (overcoming your fears).
Lots of Snakes in Dreams
It could have various potential meanings. This dream normally interprets as running away from the problem that you are encountering right now. Always look at the brighter side, every problem is unique and unaddressed problems never become solved. And sometimes this dream refers to removing an unhealthy (toxic) people in our life. If that person is not doing good to you ~ slowly avoid them. It’s your desire to remove these people into your life.
Being Chased by a Snake in a Dream
Sometimes, when the problems seem endless and instead of doing anything, we are afraid of failure. We are filled with self doubt and that makes us want to run away from the problem. You need to face them head on because they are not going away unless you do something about them. You also need to seek out help before it gets in too deep and drown in confusion.
The dream is one of the most enchanting and unexplainable aspect of sleep. Examining and studying the dream is one way to seek answers about the most basic question we still must answer. Why we dream.
By Joshua Marasigan, IFY Books
Great article Josh :)
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