Awesome dream incoming

So I was in a house somewhere, and I there was this guy showing me his collection of exotic animals. I was in a large room, just kind of walking around. He was showing me all of his snakes and other stuff. There were some shelves and some tables. The snakes were on a table all together in 20 gallon tanks. He opened his snakes cages and let them slither out so we could watch them move. I swear, the details were better than waking life. 2 of them had the body build of a corn snake and both of them were about 2 feet long. One of them had the pattern of an Anery Sand Boa. The big one was like a Ball Python but huge. The patterns were so intricate and.. ahh. I can't even put words to describe it. His snakes were just kind of floating almost, with half of their body in the cage and the other half just popped out.
After that he showed me some scorpions. He wanted to move them, and said they were Heterometrus. Looking back I know they weren't, the ones I saw were too bulky and tan. He wanted me to pick them up by the tail, so I did. When I did the top of the scorp came off, and under I saw a white spiralic thing, spinning in place. Like I was seeing the essence of that scorpions life form. I involuntarily put the piece of the scorp in my mouth and started chewing. I started freaking out and I thought "This can't be real," but alas, no lucidity. I spit out the pieces of the scorp and then just started looking at the snakes again. The dream fades out.

So, animals seem to be a big dream sign for me. Also, glad I could just rebound so quickly. I think that was definitely my longest and most vivid dream yet.