Thread: Snake eats everyone

Although in order to provide a more accurate interpretation it would usually be best to have some general background information about you (and a description of events just before this frightening dream), it’s safe to say that it comes from the deep layers of your psyche because of the “far-from-reality” nature of the giant snake who eats everyone.

This type of dream is called “archetypal” and appears at important stages in a person’s life to deliver an important message so that the dreamer can hopefully move forward more effectively overall.

The fact that the dream has repeated is also significant in showing its importance.

Dreams use the language of analogy and metaphor. In the case of archetypal dreams, it’s also helpful to look at how people through the ages have written about or drawn a given image in the dream because doing so can help to clarify its meaning for a modern dreamer.

Of course, snakes in dreams have had countless meanings attached to them over the centuries but a basic starting point is to view them as representing the primeval life force itself.

In turn, this overall life force can take on an endless number of forms, so a snake is connected with the life-giving force (i.e. on the analogy of how it resembles a phallus) as well as a life-destroying force (i.e. based on how various snakes are poisonous or can squeeze the life out of people). Similarly, it’s related to rebirth and renewal on the analogy of how it sheds its skin.

In your dream, the giant snake is found in a very run-down area of a town which possibly suggests a part of your everyday experience that has been neglected in some way.

It’s also dark with some street lights on which usually simply means that the dreamer would be mostly “in the dark” and unaware about a situation of some kind.

In this case, the situation is apparently a very important one because it has somehow resulted in (or could in the future) the fact that a very basic part of yourself is “devouring” aspects of your personality (the people you know who have been eaten).

This probably indicates that the snake has been (or could eventually be) “starved” by too little attention having been paid to what it represents in your specific dream.

If so, this might have made it “angry” and “irrational” in its behaviour which would not be a good state of affairs to be faced with.

The idea of anger might be supported by the fact that you feel you’re being watched all the time in that, although you never see the snake’s head, the eyes of snakes never close which creates an eerie feeling of “being watched” and being under constant scrutiny.

The idea would be that unless some situation is resolved which is making “nature itself” inside you feel angry, then it’s possible you could unfortunately be “devoured” to some extent in the form of unpleasant psychological or physical symptoms.

For example, you might come to feel a little down too often (e.g. the run-down town) and “want to get out”, but unless the snake is somehow placated, you won’t tend to “get past” what it symbolizes.

Since the colour of the snake was apparently very clear, it could provide a basic clue about what an underlying problem could be.

For instance, green is usually related in dreams to the idea of “outer reality” and the five senses.

The sandy brown and black patterning suggests “earthy” and to some extent “darker” aspects of life which are all the same part of life’s basic “fabric” and “pattern”.

So the idea could be that, for whatever reason, certain facets of outer reality are not being made enough a part of your everyday experience.

If so, this could eventually result in an out-of-balance approach which nature never likes, apparently preferring an all-inclusive way of dealing with the good and bad parts of existence overall.

Anyway as mentioned, without knowing anything much about you, this way of looking at your dream might not fit your personal circumstances very well, but I hope these ideas can be helpful in some way.

Please feel free to ask any questions or to make any comments about this particular way of looking at your dream.