If we think of a person’s life from conception to death, we see a flowing moving event, similar in many ways to the speeded up films of a seed growing into a plant, flowering and dying. So, generally, snakes depict many different things, but usually the life process.
The Hebrew word for the serpent in the Garden of Eden is Nahash, which can be translated as blind impulsive urges, such as our instinctive drives. This may be why snakes are used as a symbol of the medical profession.
So the snake was both poisoner’ and ‘healer’.
After discussing the dream with his wife, and realising much of his thinking and feeling was intumed, the pain disappeared. Even as I slept I felt the snake was an expression of the attitude of not shanng myself with anybody except family’ (David T).įor months prior to the above dream David had experienced a great deal of neck pain. Then I was near an elephant I loved, and hoped it would remove the snake. At one point I put my head on the ground, hoping the snake would wish to crawl away. I could feel it on the left side of my neck Fearing it was poisonous and might bite me, I moved very slowly. Chameleon: either one’s desire to fade into the background, or adaptability.Įxample: A small snake about a foot long had dropped down my shirt neck. In the above dream, the banana is both David’s pleasure and sexuality, while the lizard is the creativity emerging from his unconscious through the attention he is giving it-he is looking at the lizard. Generally, a lizard is very much the same as a snake, except it lacks the poisonous aspect awareness of unconscious or instinctive drives, functions and processes. But I felt cenain the lizard had “painted” these wonderful pictures with its unconscious an’ (David T). In fleeting thoughts I wondered if the bird “paintings” were to attract birds, or were some form of camouflage.
DREAM WITH LOTS OF SNAKES FULL
With amazement we saw on these flaps wonderful pictures, in full colour, of birds. We then were able to see it had large wing-like flaps which spread from its head in an invened V. The lizard turned so it was facing away from us-head up the wall. Frogspawn: sperm, ovum and reproduction.Įxample: ‘My wife and I saw a large lizard on the wall near a banana. Unconscious life or growth processes which can lead to transformation (the frog/prince story) the growth from childhood vulnerability-tadpole to frog-therefore the process of life in general and its wisdom. See The dream as extended perception under ESP and dreams. If we begin to touch these with consciousness, as we do in dreams, new functions are added to consciousness. They function fully only in some fight or flight, survive or die, situations. Being unconscious they are less amenable to our waking will. This is because many extraordinary human functions take place unconsciously, in the realm of the reptile/spine/lower brain/right brain/autonomic nervous system. Also the very primitive has in itself the promise of the future, of new aspects of human consciousness. The survival urge at base might be kill or run, but it can be transformed into the ambition which helps, say, an opera singer meet difficulties in her career.
Modern humans face the difficulty of developing an independent identity and yet keeping a working relationship with the primitive, thus maturing/bringing the primitive into an efficiently functioning connection with the present social world. Our relationship with the reptile in our dreams depicts our relat- edness to such forces in us, and how we deal with the impulses from the ancient pan of our brain. This includes the fundamental evolutionary ability to change and the urge to survive-very powerful and ancient processes. Our basic spinal and lower brain reactions, such as fight or flight, reproduction, attraction or repulsion, sex drive, need for food and reaction to pain.
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