Snake Dream

I had another fun dream last night, this time, with snakes. I was very eagerly purchasing pet snakes, a red one and a blue one, and I wanted desperately to be the sort of person who could handle snakes without fear. I became quite fond of my snakes because they were beautiful, and I carried them with me to a conference about literature/tattoo convention. I was wearing a beautiful silk blouse with 3/4 sleeves, and I had one snake coiled around each arm. The blue snake was wiggly, but the red snake was quite still.

I wanted to show my snakes to some of the people I was hanging out with at the convention, and I kept feeling these twinges of fear. The snakes were dangerous, I knew, but I wanted so much not to be afraid of them that I kept forcing myself to swallow the fear and just enjoy the snakes on my arms. I went to show my friends, and they were all immediately terrified and wanted me to put the snakes away.

I had to find a room where the snakes could stay. I thought about the bathroom, but I realized that people might need to use the bathroom during the keynote speaker's speech. Then I kept opening doors down this long hall, and finally I found a room that was rather reminiscent of my family's church's nursery room, where I went to play during church as a small child. It was a perfect room to keep the snakes in, and so I went to put them down.

Getting the snakes uncoiled from my arms was a particular challenge. Both snakes were suddenly latching onto me with a death grip, and both were highly poisonous. I didn't know what to do, because I didn't want the snakes on me anymore, but I loved them because they were beautiful. I started trying to find ways to pry them off of me, very carefully casually removing first the blue one and then the red one from my arms. I put them down on the ground, and they moved all over very quickly. I left the room.

Later, the snakes were under the garage. There were kittens, and the snakes were alternately trying to eat the kittens, which was terrible, or at risk of being eaten by the kittens, which was terrible.

My mind is so busy lately!

Here's what the online dream dictionary had to say about snakes in dreams:

To see a snake or be bitten by one in your dream signifies hidden fears and worries that are threatening you. your dream may be alerting you to something in your waking life that you are not aware of or that has not yet surfaced. The snake may also be seen as phallic, and thus symbolize dangerous and forbidden sexuality. The snake may also refer to a person around you who is callous, ruthless, and can't be trusted. As a positive symbol, snakes represent transformation, knowledge, and wisdom. It is indicative of self-renewal and positive changes.