Dream demons

[BodhisattvaStyle]

I have been having a recurring dream for quite a while now. Last night this recurring dream progressed, and it's all kinda neat and interesting. So, I'd like to share it with you all. 

The dream I'm speaking of has been going on for about a decade now. In the dream I am always in a house with my family. It's never all of them at once, but they are all always in the background of the dream even if I don't see them. I have now had this particular dream in every house we ever lived in. Plus there have been a few where it was a new house we had recently moved into. There was one or two where this took place in my grandparents home; and that is both sides of grandparents. I have now had this dream about a dozen times. Always different, but always the same.

The dreams are pretty simple.

In these dreams I am with a family member in one of these homes. There always seems to be an undertone of family argument going on; and in some a full blown argument. Then suddenly a snake appears that has been hidden somewhere. The snake is always different. It has been everything from a tiny white snake to a giant green and black snake. In every dream the snake is about to attack and so I choose to fight the snake. I always look for a way to capture the head of the snake. A dozen (or so) times I have been attacked by this dream snake, and every time I have been able to capture it by its head before it can bite. In a few I have killed the snake. . In each dream the snake strikes at me, but ive never been bitten. These dreams are always dark and disturbing feeling, but I have always been able to grab hold and subdue the snake, and thus protect my family.

Last night I had a new one...


In this one I was in one of our homes. This was the first one that took place in this particular home. 
In the dream it seems I am in some argument with my sister or something. It's always night time, or dark in these dreams. I am walking through from the bedroom to the living room and there is a basket up high on the wall with something in it I need to get. I start to rummage around in the basket, but cannot see what I am doing because the basket is high up on the wall. As I am fumbling around in the basket I start to hear a rattle sound (the sound of a rattle snake). I pull my hand from the basket, and am somehow at eye level looking into the basket now, and there are two rattlesnakes squirming around in there and rattling away at me. One strikes at me and misses. I back away and across the living room looking at the basket trying to figure out how I'm going to capture these snakes. I have a realization now of this familiar dream, and so I do a "dream check" where i ask myself in the dream, "am I dreaming?" This felt so real I had determined that this was actually happening, and we were in real danger now, because as I'm thinking this both snakes crawl out and down the wall and then in different directions.
( I'm unable to articulate how real this all felt, but these dreams are really intense)
 I choose the snake that scurries off to the bedroom that my sister was in. I quickly find the snake and snatch it up by its head, and feel that feeling of relief that i had caught the snake before it could hurt me or anyone else... but this time it was only for a short moment, because the last thought I had as I was waking up was on the snake I didn't catch.



This was the first rattlesnake I had in this recurring dream. First time it was two snakes, and not just one. It was the first time I didn't "conquer" the snakes because of the one that got away. 


This is a different feeling because of that. I usually feel like I have defeated the evil that is trying to get my family. And yes, this is the metaphor I see the dream as. I wont divulge too much more of how I interpret them because i'd like to see what you come up with. I will say, I have a very toxic family though. But this one has me perplexed enough that I thought I'd give it to you all, and see what you fine folks here on rogue-nation come up with.

Interpret away, or just share any recurring dreams like this. Apparently this is a very common dream. Snakes in a dream are pretty significant and can mean a kindsbof things.
It'll be interesting to me to see what you guys and gals see in these types of recurring dreams.

[Ninurta]

I think it's telling you that we cannot deal with all of the evils around us all at once. Sometimes, we can only deal with what is most dangerous, and have to leave the rest for another time, because dividing our attention between two evils makes us less effective at dealing with either of them.

It also says that evil cannot always be seen until it is, but once it IS seen, it can no longer effectively hid from you because, even if you can't see it at the moment, you already know it is there, and will be watching for it's reappearanvce.

Just my inflation-adjusted two cents.

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[BodhisattvaStyle]

I think it's telling you that we cannot deal with all of the evils around us all at once. Sometimes, we can only deal with what is most dangerous, and have to leave the rest for another time, because dividing our attention between two evils makes us less effective at dealing with either of them.

It also says that evil cannot always be seen until it is, but once it IS seen, it can no longer effectively hid from you because, even if you can't see it at the moment, you already know it is there, and will be watching for it's reappearanvce.

Just my inflation-adjusted two cents.

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That was truly insightful, Ninurta. You just hit some nails on their heads there, actually. One on what I'm going through now. And the second was what I had just been through with something huge I had learned. 

I'd have to write a short book to explain all that so I'm just going to leave that at that for now. I will say I'm a little mind=blown with how well that just aligned with things.

[GeauxHomeLittleD]

Snakes in dreams can represent danger but more often they represent secrets. The secrets they represent are usually of the sexual nature but not always. Are you trying to keep secrets from causing an uproar in your family? You wouldn't be alone, every family has them.

[Infolurker]

I used to have dreams about flying / levitating.... 

It was very unpleasant when it started as I would float off and fall, etc.

Over the years, I could control it and enjoyed it. I could even fly in my car. Flew under the St. Louis Arch in my car in a dream once.

Of course as soon as that happened, I rarely get that any longer.

Same with telekinesis.

Now I dream of being in the woods and a mushroom cloud goes off and running from the fallout that is coming wondering if that house I am running to has a basement.

[Ninurta]

I used to have dreams about flying / levitating.... 

It was very unpleasant when it started as I would float off and fall, etc.

Over the years, I could control it and enjoyed it. I could even fly in my car. Flew under the St. Louis Arch in my car in a dream once.

Of course as soon as that happened, I rarely get that any longer.

Same with telekinesis.

Now I dream of being in the woods and a mushroom cloud goes off and running from the fallout that is coming wondering if that house I am running to has a basement.

I used to have those same dreams of flying or levitating, and I learned to control it over time too. The worst ones were in the beginning, when I was flying on a "magic carpet" and the damned thing kept trying to jerk itself out from under me. I think that's why I learned to control the flight, in case it ever got it done.

Never trust a magic carpet.

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