What does a snake bite mean in a dream?
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If you have a dream about a snake bite, ask yourself about and take note of your emotions. That snake bite might be saying, “Hey, there is a painful truth that I need to deal with. I'm being bit by the truth of life. And I need to take that bitter poison because it may be healing to me.” But on the other side, it can also be like, “I'm being attacked by lies right now. Maybe those are the lies that people tell about me, or those can be the lies I tell about myself, like my low self-esteem.” I think the answer is one and the same. It's both. How do I recognize the lies that are in my life and then live my life more authentically? That’s the snake bite.
Oftentimes, the biggest difficulty in dream interpretation is that we apply a conscious lens to these subconscious symbols. Deam interpretation is inherently difficult because we're operating from the subconscious. Subconsciously, happy equals happy, sad equals sad. There’s a direct correlation between emotions in the subconscious brain, but a snake can mean many things all at the same time.
Snakes in dreams are very common. Every human being has snake dreams and has this connection with snakes. That's why you see it in so much religious literature. A snake is often a character because it sort of transcends all demographics. Snakes shed their skin. They were long thought to be immortal. Snakes can be a huge transformational symbol of change that says, “Hey, it's time to shed my skin of who I was and be reborn.”
Snakes are also in Greek mythology. Think about Asclepius, the god of healing, and the snake curled around his staff of healing. That snake is the one that provided the antidote, that provided the medicine for people.
On the other side, there’s Adam and Eve, the Garden of Eden. Snakes can mean deception. A black snake crossing your path in a dream can mean that there's something deceiving happening. Or, maybe some big change is about to take place where a deception is going to be revealed. You need to be ready for that change. Snakes hiding in grass or snakes biting you are a sign to stop and ask yourself, “What is poisoning my life right now?” So there’s a light side and a dark side.
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Oftentimes, the biggest difficulty in dream interpretation is that we apply a conscious lens to these subconscious symbols. Deam interpretation is inherently difficult because we're operating from the subconscious. Subconsciously, happy equals happy, sad equals sad. There’s a direct correlation between emotions in the subconscious brain, but a snake can mean many things all at the same time.
Snakes in dreams are very common. Every human being has snake dreams and has this connection with snakes. That's why you see it in so much religious literature. A snake is often a character because it sort of transcends all demographics. Snakes shed their skin. They were long thought to be immortal. Snakes can be a huge transformational symbol of change that says, “Hey, it's time to shed my skin of who I was and be reborn.”
Snakes are also in Greek mythology. Think about Asclepius, the god of healing, and the snake curled around his staff of healing. That snake is the one that provided the antidote, that provided the medicine for people.
On the other side, there’s Adam and Eve, the Garden of Eden. Snakes can mean deception. A black snake crossing your path in a dream can mean that there's something deceiving happening. Or, maybe some big change is about to take place where a deception is going to be revealed. You need to be ready for that change. Snakes hiding in grass or snakes biting you are a sign to stop and ask yourself, “What is poisoning my life right now?” So there’s a light side and a dark side.
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