This morning, in the ten minutes between snooze alarms, I
had a series of nightmares. One where I screamed psychotically at a cashier for
letting someone cut in line in front of me. One where I was driving in the snow
and started spinning wildly on black ice. And one with a snake.
I haven’t had the snake dreams for years. They started when
I was a child – I assumed as a direct result of the huge snakes that my step
father kept as pets. I had a fear that they would escape, I guess, because I
would regularly have dreams that they did
and that they would come into my bed and bite me and / or strangle me to death.
In one prominent dream the snake mutated to a science-fiction size beast that ate
all of my family as I watched. I still remember it vividly.
The snake in this dream was normal sized, but it couldn’t be
caged. It seemed friendly at first. I was trying to play with it, as were the
two cats and as I am writing this I am realizing exactly how comical this dream
was because Oh my god a snake with
two cats? It doesn’t get any more Freudian than that, does it? Except it does because the snake kept darting in
and out of the covers and out from under the bed trying to attack the cats who
weren’t sure if they wanted to play with something that could kill them. And I
couldn’t cage the thing. No matter where I grabbed it’s head it bit me. In my
dream state this was all so terrifying but in my waking state sex sex sex sex sex sex sex. OY VEY.
Ahem. Yes, Dr. Freud, I hear you.
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http://www.snakedreams.org/snake-dream.html
Interesting....
Who knew there was a whole SITE devoted to the snake dream!
Ever since I heard that in Florida there were snakes in plumbing and they'd come up through toilets (ok, maybe it only happened once. Or maybe I made it up).
I've had some nightmares about that.
I have never heard of this. But I was alway terrified of spiders coming up and biting me in the ass. So to each his own, I guess!
Snake nightmares were my recurring nightmares until my 20s when it switched to teeth falling out. I just woke up to an actual spider crawling very close to my face. I nearly ate it and went back to sleep but realized in a panic that it was a spider close to my eyeball and tossed the fucker. Now am WIDE awake. Asshole spider.
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