Excerpt: many people dream about snakes. In particular, these animals represent ancient symbols that were implanted in humanity's consciousness. The snake appeared in The Adam and Eve story as a tempting entity. Then later the bible speaks about snakes being healing totems. So what do they mean? Should we fear them? Read my dream interpretation to find out.
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I am 24 years old and for a year now I have been in a relationship with a charming and amazing guy. Lately, I began to feel different emotions of uncertainty about the relationship because my guy is very practical and earthy and he has no possibility of having long conversations with me about matters that are beyond figures and facts. (like, sentences which begin with "I feel, I think, I believe").
Last night I had a dream. It goes like this:
We were together at the beach, my boy and I, he went into the water with his goggles and I sat down at the beach beside a little boy. Next to us were shells I had never seen, big and special. I touched one of them and suddenly a snake came out. Then four more snakes came out of the other shells and began to crawl quickly toward my friend into the water. I shouted his name a few times but he was under the water and did not hear me. They reached him and bit him once in the face. He got out of the water holding his face and started running. I started to run after him as I paved my way through people who were standing on the way, pushing them aside. I followed him, climbing a metal staircase, and finally entered, breathlessly, into the nurse's room where he was sitting safe and sound.
I immediately woke up and told him about the dream but he responded, typically, by caressing me and smiling. What is the meaning of these dreams? What do the snakes say and why did I run after him for so long only to see that he was all right? Why did the snakes come out of shells and what does it mean that when I tried to warn him he was with his head underwater and did not hear me?
Things are not necessarily what they seem to be. You perceive your spouse as a practical person who is unable to have conversations about emotional and spiritual matters. This is not necessarily the case but represents one line of possibilities on which you focus (and therefore create). The situation on the beach comes to tell you that you are simply unaware of the spiritual and emotional depth of your partner. He may not express things but if you change your point of view (= diving glasses) you will discover other sides in his personality.
On another level the dream speaks about you.
The dream describes a situation where you are in a place that allows "openness" to deep messages from the center of your being. This place is represented by the sea and the little boy represents the inner child within you. Your friend enters the water, that is, into the very heart of that inner world. In a direct response to his move snakes emerge from the shells and run/crawl in. Their biting is your interpretation to a fear within you – what might happen if you become more aware of your own deep wisdom.
Generally speaking, snakes in dreams symbolize two elements, which actually are one – spiritual wisdom and sexuality. I am saying they are the same because there is a deep spiritual wisdom in our sexuality and once we know to operate/utilize our sexual energy we can reach enlightenment. I will not delve into this topic now though.
So, the snakes crawled out of a shell, which is your interpretation to a vagina, (the shape is similar), which is the location in the body of that spiritual energy that I speak of. But you are afraid of them, meaning, afraid of the spiritual wisdom that you have, within you. What might happen to your boyfriend if you become really you; if you allow yourself to be a spiritual person? Will he leave you and you will need to chase him (hence the running)? The dream says it very well – everything will be find. Indeed, there will be hurt, he will be surprised by you, but after some healing period of time (="the nurse"), he will be fine and so your relationship.
The bottom line is – be yourself. It's time for you to let the ancient spiritual knowledge come out, not to fear it, and trust that things will be all right for you and your relationship.
Good luck!
