I had this dream last night and thru searching for its meaning, I came across your research here.
I was in an old house (looking like my old grandma’s) and we were expecting guests. I noticed that the energy is overall low and felt that no one cares so I went out to the big yard and started hosing the yard, the ground, the walls and everywhere to bring up the freshness scent when you wash the outside. I also remember that there was a girl in the house, don’t recall any details but she was kind of a servant or sth, we constantly exchanged gazes and I knew I liked her. Part of the reason that I go out to hose the yard was to impress her, I guess. Anyways, once I was almost done, a dark brown snake popped up in front of me ( and I am very scared of snakes in general). I froze but it bit me twice on the wrist. My dad came to my rescue and caught the snake by its head but he was bitten as well. Now I could see a moving tail inside my wrist (my dad had the same thing) that was following my blood vessel. I was trying so hard to pull the thing out but was amazed at the size of it once it came out. It was long, moving and biting. Did the same thing for my dad and then last thing I remember, I was looking for zip locks to keep these so than hospital can review upon our arrival. This is the second time in 2-3 months that I dreamed of being bitten by a snake. Last time, it was a very black one. When I googled, I first came across the notion of confronting feelings that are ignored! Any light you can shed is much appreciated…

I found your blog because of a dream last night: I am in a beautiful forest with a deep gentle warm stream. I enter the water with friends and family, and then realize that there are snakes in the water which I suspect are dangerous. I am concerned for my companions and want to protect them. I try not to be afraid, but one swims up to me, and I feel its slippery body touch mine. We lock eyes then the snake darts in at me and I awake, terrified, sure that the snake has bit me in the neck.

I have night terrors regularly but my dreams are usually peaceful so this dream was unusual.

That’s a very strange dream! It has a kind of fairy tale quality. Grandmothers often carry cultural wisdom and spiritual traditions that are neglected by patriarchal society, so if this were my dream I would wonder what kind of knowledge this grandmother is carrying with her in “unhuman,” non-land-based form. I like the phrase “liberated swimming”–it makes me wonder about your feelings about water? The final scary scene makes me think some kind of sacrifice is required to preserve the grandmother’s wisdom and keep it alive. Again, if it were my dream I’d ask myself, what has been sacrificed, or what needs to be sacrificed, in my life to stay true to the wisdom of the snake?

in this dream, i have two girls, twins. it’s at night. one of them was asking me about their grandmother, my dream mother-in-law (i think). i tell them vaguely (though i see it quite clearly) about her leaving my father-in-law at the alter and disappearing into the sea. (i remember nothing about my supposed husband.) i take the girl out of the yard that’s in front of the house from the last mess of dreaming and we are suddenly on the other embankment of a wide river. we watch as a glistening silver and blue water snake sweeps back and forth just on the surface of the water, almost glowing. that is the girl’s grandmother. she had chosen a life of an untamed unhuman instead of becoming a human wife and living on land.

we are suddenly on the other side of the embankment again, having followed the snake in its liberated swimming and then another snake joins it and somehow the two communicate to me that my daughter has to choose between going with them or sending her twin sister instead. (at this point, i am feeling much less like a mother and i specifically remember thinking it was strange at how little fear or trepidation i felt in telling my dream daughter this.) she took some time thinking about it, staring fearfully at the snakes and the water and finally said they should take her sister (lauren, i think). she is a little relieved that the decision was made and it wasn’t her, but then the snake darts inside a house and comes back dragging the other sister, fangs into her hand and through the water. at that point i remember hearing ‘lauren’ screaming underwater.

even after watching her emerge with the snake in some cove and and after some time, swimming with them, happy, i was very disturbed by this dream. and during the dream itself, very disturbed. anyone have any thoughts?