Handling the Snakes

Handling the Snakes

By Sue Greenwald

I had a very vivid dream on August 22, 2022. It was so real, I felt intense, real pain when I woke up!

I dreamed that I was in my parents ranch house. In the dream they were both older, and needed help, as they couldn’t go up and down the stairs. They were upstairs, directing me into their basement. I went down the basement stairs. The basement was empty and super clean, except for an old wooden desk, which we actually had years ago. In real life, the desk was in the corner, stacked with papers. In this dream, the desk was on the long side of the wall.

There were 2 rattlesnakes in the basement, one much larger than the other. Their bellies were yellow tinged with pink. I got my mothers “grabber” (a long handled tool used to pick up things, often used by older people) and fearlessly walked up to the smaller snake, grabbing it by the tail with this grabber thing. I promptly got bit on the back of the right hand, and felt instant heat and pain. It was like the fangs hit bones in my hand, as well as venom going into my veins. It was intense, very painful, and my hand and arm instantly started to swell. Did I mention the intense and instant pain?

My parents were yelling down the stairs for me to be careful, of course. I disregarded that, trying to handle the snake, and said that I’d go to the hospital later. I got the snake out of the house. Yes, the second I grabbed the snake by the tail, I realized that I should have gotten it by the neck, but at the time I didn’t care that much.

I then saw a really long, huge and wide, large black snake with yellow eyes, which I got outside. It was huge, and almost seemed to be growing to be gigantic in my dream. By this time, my hand was very painful and swollen, which I still disregarded.

I got the snakes out of the house. I believe I took them to the very far end of our yard to release them. I got better at capturing them, grabbing them behind the head, instead of the tail.

I woke up into this physical reality, sat up and turned on the light, and looked at my hand. It was normal, but the pain from that dream still lingered. The pain was quite intense still, and I was rubbing and touching my hand to ensure that it was normal. In fact, I was very surprised to see my hand a normal size, and it took a while for the pain from the dream to dissipate.

A while later, I fell back asleep, and was again at my parents house, in the basement. It was the very same dream!

I immediately found myself back into the very same dream, maybe 30 minutes or so after the time that I left the dream the first time. This time, the basement was FILLED with about 50 different snakes, and they were kind of neatly lined up, parallel with the walls. They were different sizes and colors. I walked with confidence to get them, while my parents hovered upstairs. I assume that I got all of the snakes out of the house, although I don’t remember seeing the details of that.

I then went out to the back yard, where the (now) giant black snake from my earlier dream was. It was hiding under a lean-to or a giant pile of branches by our shed, which was at the far end of the back yard. The snake was hiding under the brush and woodpiles, so it wasn’t easily accessible.

It kept coming at me, and seemed to be growing bigger each time it lunged at me. It had yellow eyes, and I had the impression that it was a dragon or maybe a dragon in disguise. It kind of reminded me of Toothless in the movie How to Train Your Dragon.

I held up my hand, beamed a little energy at it, and commanded it to go away. It would back up for a while to hide, and then lunge at me again. I fearlessly pushed the energy toward it again and again, telling it to leave. This happened several times. We had some sort of a dialog, and it came at me one last time. This time, I was about done with playing around, so I blasted it with energy from my palm and commanded it to leave. The Energy came out of my palm strongly, and them bubbled out, enveloping the snake. It left. As I said before, as the dream progressed, this black snake turned larger and larger, and I had to keep sending it more energy to keep it at bay.

This dream was extremely vivid. I thought it was noteworthy for several reasons: First, the pain from the snakebite in the dream was intense, and I actually felt it for quite a while after I woke up, shocked that it didn’t immediately dissipate upon waking. The pain I felt upon waking was real and very intense. Second, I went back into the same dream when I fell back asleep, which is pretty unusual. I tackled the snakes without hesitation or fear, and the power that I blasted toward the black snake was immense. I had a long discussion with the black snake, which I don’t recall, but I was confident and was letting it go away on its own before I handled it.

To me, this was a very symbolic dream, very clear. The snakes symbolize transformation. Talking and fighting with the black snake symbolizes my own psychic abilities and power growing. The color of the black snake represents evil, which I easily defeated. The fact that I fearlessly handled all of the snakes means that I’m becoming more confident.

Do you have any insights that I might have missed?