Dreaming of Snakes on your Bed
Dreaming about snakes on your bed might stir up strong emotions. At best, the scene is intriguing; at worst, the dream comes with disgust, anxiety or fear. This wild creature can be interpreted as a symbol for your sense of privacy, intimacy or the expression of your sexuality. Meanings for this snake dream are influenced by what the setting in which the dream takes place, your bed or bedroom, and what this place typically represents for you.
Dream Meaning Summary
- You’re getting in touch with your sexuality
- Ambivalent feelings towards romantic or sexual intimacy with a partner
- Your personal boundaries are being tested; need to define your private space
- Need for rest
- A healing process is taking place
What dreaming about a snake on my bed mean?
What does dreaming about a snakes on your bed mean? Here are several meanings to help interpret your dream.
Dream Meaning #1: Snakes as classic symbols for sexual instincts
Dreaming about snakes on a bed may refer to deep urges, especially connected to your sensual desire or sexuality.The snake is typically considered as a phallic symbol. This meaning is emphasized in a dream where snakes are in a bed.
The snake dream could mean that you need to look within yourself to see how you relate with your own sexuality and its expression.
Depending on what the snake look like, you may interpret the dream as an indication of how you perceive your own sexual energy and desire. Is the snake colorful or dull? Does it move vigorously or is it slow? Is it big or small, aggressive or friendly? Your response will give additional clues to interpret your dream.
Dream Meaning #2: Intimacy and invasion of privacy
Firstly, the classic meaning for dreams that take place in a bedroom, especially if your bed or bedroom is portrayed, is associated with intimacy. It could be intimacy with a partner or simply how you experience your own connection with yourself. Seeing a snake or several snakes in your bed bring this meaning forth even more strongly.
Secondly, the bed or bedroom could symbolize your private sphere, a sense of your personal space or boundaries. To see snakes crawling in your bed in a dream denote insidious feelings that are creeping. Perhaps you have been avoiding looking at a sticky situation in your waking life and the dreams is bring it to your attention.
Snakes in a bed can refer to a situation in your life where your private space is being invaded and your boundaries not respected. In the dream, you may be surprised by the presence of the snake in your bed, just like you may not be fully aware that you are being bothered by a situation or someone close to you in your waking life.
This type of snake dream relates to the need to look at guilt or an anxiety that is associated to the topics of private space or intimacy in general or in the context of your current relationship.
Dream Meaning #3: Exploring new ways to express yourself
If dreaming about snakes on your bed comes with a feeling of curiosity or fascination in the dream, this may mean that you are in the process of exploring new ways to express your own sexual or sensual life.
This snake dream is a reminder of your own creativity and need to express deep, instinctual desires.
Dream Meaning #4: Seeing snakes in someone else’s bed
If you dream of seeing snakes in someone else’s bed, this could point to your desire or curiosity about someone who is close to you. It could mean that you would like to strengthen your current relationship or wish to renew it.
The snake could also represent your ambivalence regarding the development of the relationship and the deepening of emotional and/or sexual intimacy.
Dream Meaning #5: Unresolved guilt regarding a partner or your own feelings
Snakes in a bed could indicate that you’re feeling guilty about about sexual or romantic feelings you’ve been having.
Depending on the overall feeling in your dream, this may indicate that you are in the process of dealing with ambivalent emotions regarding your own sexuality or sexual desires towards a partner or potential partner.
Dreaming about snakes in a bed may point to a need to acknowledge these feelings more fully and explore ways to express them more respectfully and harmoniously in your waking life.
Dream meaning #6: Personal healing process is taking place
If a snake appears on your bed in a dream and you are not very afraid or not afraid at all, this may mean that you are involved in a healing process connected to your sexuality or a relationship with an intimate partner.
The snake could be interpreted as a symbol of deeply rooted sexual energy or desire that is trying to be expressed more fully. The dream may indicate that you need to pay attention to sexual or romantic matters of importance to you and your intimate partner.
Next Step: Make your Own Meaning
To go further with the interpretation of your snake dream, ask yourself the following questions. You can get more help by looking at the Snake Dream Interpretation Guide.
- What does the snake look like in your dream? What are its characteristics, qualities?
- What is its behavior in your bed: Is aggressive or friendly, fast or slow?
- Are you feeling guilty about something you did recently, especially as it relate to an intimate relationship or someone very close to you?
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Post your dream below if you dreamed of seeing snakes everywhere and need help to interpret its meaning. Other people passionate about dream interpretation will have a chance to answer. You can look at other types of snake dreams in the Dreams Forum.
I had a rather restless night attempting to sleep. somewhere late in the morning, i’d guess about 5AM i thought i woke up to two snakes in my bed. I didn’t do much to avoid them, but they really werent comfortable with their skin on mine; one i was almost cuddling with, the other was just barely touching me from time to time. I tossed once or twice before the cuddle-snake made me too uncomfortable and i realized there was a snake in my bed, so i clumsily reached over and grabbed the one i was almost cuddling with and was going to throw him out of the bed. When i grabbed him and began to tug he bit me, so i got out of bed and turned on the lights. there were no actual snakes there, but i swear it was so vivid im still confused.
I don’t know why this is happening. I’ve never been such a believer in god either. Could that have something to do with my dreams. Every night I go to bed now. I wrap myself because the thought of snakes on my bed frightens me. I’m not startled by them either when handling them in reality. And I dont come in contact with them a lot. My dream happened in the morning around5-6am and I see a not a small nor large black and redish snake with shiny scales move across my bed. From the middle to the head rest of my bed and then under. Then I got up and. ran to my moms room and knocked fast. And she asked what was wrong and I said I thought I saw a snake in my bed. It seemed so real I but I just knew it couldn’t be. I just want to why this happens
i dreamt a white snake flying in my class-room (college). the place got crowded to see it and every 1 ran after it; till it fled.
the tail of a long snake catched my legs and when the snake turns to attack me i bite the tail detached it from snakes body and i feel safe then i awake
…if u dream a snake it means that there is a Jinn visiting u….you must have a shower before sleep and its important after sex…
My 4 year old daughter keeps telling me that she sees a snake in her bed everytime she goes in her room. She describes it as a red and black snake which imma assume to be a coral snake. Does anyone know what this means?
Have you got any answrs to why she is dreaming about snakes? My 2 yr old has been running a fever and is freaking out in the middle of the night because snakes in her bed No matter what i tell her she still thinks their there
Help!!!!!
This morning around 5-6am I thought I saw a red and black snake move across me bed and I was frightened. I am 15 years old and also looking for answers to this dream or hallucination.
in my dream, I saw two snakes lying still on my white msttress, then out of nowhere a very large one came from under the bed and went right back. next i ended up in a school auditiorium asking a unfamiliar man if he caught the snakes and he replied, “yea I got the 2 snakes on the bed”. Then I said what about the giant one under bed. End of dream
I am pregnant 9 weeks exactly. I don’t know if this means anything. I had a dream about a huge jet black snake in my home. How it got there I am not sure. I first spotted it in my hallway then it went into my sons room then made its way into my room in the bedl. As the events take place I call my husband to show it to him. He wasn’t affaid. Then it comes back down the hall to my family room my 2 year old saw it and she took off running towards it. Of course I stopped her but he saw her and stood up on his tale and came to her to allow her to pet
him. Of course I didn’t allow that to happen either. Eventually he went out the front door curled up in front of the door and my husband closed it because I asked him too. The snake appeared harmless and
Friendly it could move fast at will but knew not to approach my family
and I slowly. I have seen snakes in the wild, kept as pets, continously in my dreams and at the zoo. I feel they are one of my animal spirits. I just don’t like them.
friendly. I myself in dreams or otherwise don’t like them. I have seen them
I saw a black snake with a white dot on it on my dreams. It just pass by thought the window looking for entry… Trying to go up to find place to a rooftop but, he couldn’t find it so he will go back and I saw it going in to my mums room. Then I went to my mum room to let her know… We go out of the house and someone help.
I dreamed that a snake (striped in black and white) crawled from my neck down to my crotch and into my back. i was so scared that i felt my body wiggled as the snake crawled its way from my neck to my back. i felt it stayed in my back and when i woke up, it was my daughter’s hand in my back. appreciate if you can enlighten me on this.
I dreamed that I was in my bedroom, lying in bed, sort of paralyzed. (Possibly a semi-hypnagogic dream?) A fun, attractive female friend of mine, Anita, was holding a large, dark brown snake with no distinct markings. (It must have been 4 1/2 or 5 feet long, neither especially thick nor thin; Anita herself is a curvy 4’11″, so it was about as long as she!) I was glad to see Anita, but very uneasy about the snake! By contrast, kittenish Anita was completely fearless and uninhibited vis-à-vis the snake, and was taking mischievous delight in the fact that I *was* afraid of it! Standing in front of my bed and holding the snake, Anita assured me it was harmless; but although I *knew* it wasn’t poisonous, I still feared it might bite me. She teased me, saying that she should put it in bed with me (to prove that I shouldn’t be afraid of it)! With the skill, agility and fearlessness of an experience “snake dancer,” Anita began playfully showing off, easily lifting the snake overhead, nonchalantly holding it in various positions, wearing it on her arms & shoulders, etc. She was all but performing a sexy “snake dance” with it, which would have been VERY HOT in real life, but in the dream I was much more (unreasonably) afraid of the snake than turned-on. Anita was certainly aware of my fear–but she continued to tease me with the snake, and tell me how she ought to put the snake in my bed to prove I shouldn’t be afraid. I was at her mercy, as I was pretty much unable to move. Finally she effortlessly lifted it overhead with one hand (Anita is quite strong irl) and began twirling it around very rapidly, almost as if it were a lasso! I either thought or said, “Well don’t do THAT! You’ll piss off the snake and it will bite me for sure!” Sure enough, she put the snake in my bed, and it moved slowly against my left side and leg. I moved a little, and the snake slowly slithered off the bed. Anita was right–it didn’t bite me…but it scared me. I guess I woke up right after that.
Any thoughts on this dream?
You want Anita or someone else very much but you are afraid to go there for some reason. The snake represents the unknowing danger associated with Anita. It did not harm you, you had a adrenaline rush and kind of enjoyed the snake
In the bed.
I saw a snake dream last night that it was a big black snake sitting next to my bed and my daughter was there too so I get scared and I called my husband to come and get the snake but my husband come in the bedroom and get my daughter instead and then I ask him where did the snake go and we all started looking then in a meanwhile I saw blood on the floor and my father in law was standing there and I ask him did u kill the snake ? He replied I was trying but he escaped through the toilet.. That left me worried ..
i was in bed laying next to my husband and i fell asleep and in my dream i was in bed with a whole lot of snakes and then i woke up in my dream and walked to the kitchen and i saw a small brown snake on the floor and i just started stomping it, but i am scared of snakes so i don’t know how i had the courage in my dream to kill one.i finally awoke and i was still scared.
I was in my bed asleep at night, I woke to the feeling of a snake sliding across me, however I did not see one and I did not look for it. I told my sister that I felt like a snake crawled across me. I went back to sleep and felt like something was draining me, taking every breathe I exhaled when I breath. I woke up and was looking face to face at this brown snake with black spots. The next thing I recall is I had the snake by the throat and squeezing it. I began beating it with a hammer. I took it outside and continued to make sure it was dead. As I was talking with my neighbor I saw other snakes and started to kill them the same way. I had no fear and every one I saw.
I have scary dreams of snakes . Then when i wake up the snakes are still in my room every were intill someone trun on the light….
I have this also weird dreams that urged me to wake up quickly, I’m on my bed about 8am after sleeping again by alarming my phone at 6am. Then i saw a snake on my bed and my reaction was very scared and i was like “where the hell it came from!!!” then unconsciously I gasped the snake and it bites me, made me scare then it rolled around my arms.