This includes accidents as well as financial or relationship problems. Therefore, if one bites you in a dream, your struggles will occur without warning and quickly. Snakes strike quickly with little or no warning.
You will face a period of struggles against unfortunate circumstances. What are you worried about that you cannot admit to yourself? Did a snake bite you in your dream? Consider this a warning. But they’re also connected to mystery and deviance. Think about the people in your life that you feel might be hiding something from you or you don’t think are trustworthy. Snakes in our dreams are a warning about a person in our waking life that we don’t trust. “Snake dreams always indicate a discrepancy between the attitude of the conscious mind and instinct, the snake being a personification of the threatening aspect of that conflict.” Carl Jung In dreams, they are a warning to be aware of treachery or obstacles in your way because of deliberate sabotaging behavior. In general, there are three basic interpretations of dreams about snakes:Īs in real life, snakes are extremely symbolic. As such, the Bible talks about serpents as having great wisdom because, unlike other animals in the Bible, the serpent can speak. Jung also believed that there is a cultural and religious connection to snakes. In fact, you can see a snake curled around a staff called the Rod of Aesculapius which is the symbol for doctors. As snakes are reptiles he saw snakes as symbols of wisdom. This is the wise part of our brain that acts instinctively. He believed that we all have a reptilian part in our brain. Jung’s theory is different when it comes to dreams about snakes. Carl Jung’s Interpretation of Snakes in Dreams
After recollecting this dream, Anna’s paralysis disappeared and she returned to normal health. Even worse, her fingers then turned into tiny little black snakes.įreud believed that Anna subconsciously wanted her father to die in order to put him out of his misery as he was so sick and suffering dreadfully. In her dream, her arm was paralyzed and she could not stop the snake from biting her father.
#DREAMS ABOUT LOTS OF SNAKES MEANING SERIES#
Freud’s patient – Anna O, came to him suffering from a series of ailments including hysteria, paralysis, and hydrophobia.Īfter many talking sessions with Freud – Anna recounted a dream in which a black snake bit her sick father in a bed next to her. I couldn’t go any further without mentioning possibly one of the most famous dreams about snakes in the world. Sigmund Freud and the Famous Anna O Snake Dream The two greatest dream experts – Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung had conflicting theories regarding snake dreams.įreud believed a dream about snakes was an indication of repressed sexual desire whereas Jung regarded snakes in both a negative and positive light. But snakes are also phallic symbols and represent the men in our lives. The main reason we dream about snakes is that we worry about something in our lives. Dreams about snakes usually represent worry