And according to Freud, they may even represent the phallus.
#SEEING LOTS OF SNAKES IN DREAM SKIN#
They can, however, also mean rebirth through the shedding of one’s skin or relate to health and spiritual problems. They can, in venomous snakes, represent death by stealth. In dreams, snakes can be primal, sexual creatures, but also oppressors. Carl Jung, for example, believed that snakes were ‘chthonic devils’ (spirits of the underworld), but also that ‘ serpent is an adversary and a symbol of enmity, but also a wise bridge that connects right and left through longing, much needed by our life.’
The same is true of many texts on dream interpretation. One of the first studies of dreams, the Oneirocritica by Artemidoros, lists several potential interpretations – from the women who dreamed of snakes before giving birth and birthed sons who were orators (because of the snake’s forked tongue), thieves (because a snake never moves in straight lines), priests (because snakes are sacred to the gods) and more. The snake, for example, plays many roles in dreams and not all of them are negative. But it helps to know how such things have been interpreted throughout history.
The meaning of dreams is always situation-specific and relies as much upon the interpretation of the dreamer as any other interpretation.
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