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Dreaming about Being Bitten by a Snake
Dreaming of being bitten by a snake is one of the most common and striking snake dreams. While the dreamer is likely to wake up scared or confused about the meaning of such a dream, a general interpretation considers snake bite imagery in dreams as a precious warning or wake up call regarding your waking life.
A snake biting you symbolically signifies that you need to pay attention to a challenging situation or emotion that has not yet been completely acknowledged and dealt with.
Snake Bite Dream Meanings
- The snake bite symbolizes a wake up call
- Warning about a situation, activity, behavior or thought that are “poisonous” in your life.
- Warning about something that paralyzes your ability to make a choice in order to take the next step in your life or a relationship
- Resistance to what is perceived as a “temptation” or a situation that challenges your beliefs or values
- Sign that you’re on the verge of a deep personal transformation
What does being bitten by a snake in a dream mean?
What does dreaming about a snake bite mean? Here are several meaning definitions to help interpreting your dream.
Dream Meaning #1: Pay attention to something you’ve been ignoring
Dreaming of being bitten by this wild reptile can be interpreted as a painful reminder that you need to pay attention to a situation or relationship that has been challenging or difficult to deal with in your waking life. A snake biting you in a dream symbolizes your own guidance system or unconscious trying to get your attention through a wake up call.
You’re becoming more aware about an issue or aspect of yourself that you’ve been ignoring. The snake bite has the effect of prompting a reaction on your part, whether it’s pain, surprise or fear. Often, the dreamer will wake up right after the snake bites her in the dream. The attack from the serpent can therefore point to the need to wake yourself up, in your life too, from a situation where you have been compromising too much.
A dream of a snake bite reminds you that you need to resolve or come to terms with a situation or behavior that is paralyzing your ability to make a decision or move forward. Getting bitten by this wild creature is an invitation to examine what is currently “poisonous” in your life and to remedy it.
Dream Meaning #2: Meaning of the body part that is bitten by the snake
The dream interpretation will vary depending on what part of the body is being bitten. Consider the meaning you give to the part and how it related to what is challenged or needs to change in your waking life.
For instance, a snake bite to the right hand means that you are conflicted about taking action or making the right choice in your life; it could suggest that you are preoccupied with acting in fairness or maintaining a healthy transparency in a relationship whether it is intimate or related to work.
Being bitten by a snake in the back could indicate that you need to pay attention to ill words or deceitful actions of people around you; it could also mean that you need to resolve issues from the past or concerns that you have been carrying with you for a long time.
Dream Meaning #3: You’re holding back your wild, untamed side
When you dream of a snake biting you, the animal may reflect conflictual urges or desires you have in waking life and that are hard to grasp or control. Dreaming of a snake brings to your attention, through the image of this animal, to a part of you that you or possibly others consider as “wild”, untamed, perhaps even “out of control”.
This inner conflict may have escaped your attention or you may have seen it looming over you, just like the animal in the dream before it strikes. The fact the snake is biting you indicates that you are in the process of becoming more conscious of what you need to do to take control of a situation or matter that has been creeping in
Dream Meaning #4: Transformation is painfully taking place in your life
The serpent is delivering the antidote to numbing yourself and avoiding what needs to be done to get to the next step in your life. The snake bite may point to a shift occurring in your awareness, a transformation: You are on the verge of becoming more aware about a matter that was previously hidden or avoided.
This radical shift may be experienced in a painful manner at first, but will be beneficial in the long run. This wake up call is part of your growth process.
Dream Meaning #5: Struggle with temptation
Dreaming of a snake biting you may represent the archetypal presence of temptation in your life. Just like the serpent in the Garden of Eden in the judeo-christian tradition, the animal in your dream could connect to a “temptation”, desire or situation you feel conflicted about because of it does not fit in your usual beliefs or ethical values.
The snake bite is a wake up call to face whatever is causing tension, perhaps even challenge some of your core beliefs or values and get a fresh perspective.
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.
- How afraid are you of the snake and/or the bite in your dream?
- Which part of your body does the snake bite? Look at the corresponding meanings.
- How are you resisting change in your life?
- Has a fear of making a decision paralyzed your ability to stand for yourself or move forward in your life?
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I dreamed that a snake was coiled in attacking position and I avoid it and tried to pass around without interefering with the snake, then the snake uncoiled and speedly attacked and seamed to have bitten my foot-revising I could not find the bite-then a fellow in a USV stopped at my door to claim that I splashed and dirty his car and I tried to explain that there was a snake on the road and I hurled around to avoid it-I was now fitting in my sleep and my wife woke me up, because I was hitting at her.
I dreamed I was walking to a holiday Inn with my ex husband and his sister through long grass.( think it was her old home near a beach) I spoke to them saying ‘what about snakes?’I was then in pain showing the others my bite (in a camping area near a campfire) and at that momment a doctor appeared and everyone was worried about my ex’s small bite. After that the doctor saw I had 3 huge snake bites and said I was dying from them. Then the doctor proceeded to catch and remove 3 large yellow bellied black snakes away from us. At that point I woke.
PS: The bites were all together on my lower left leg.
no..Right leg
i had a dream that i was walking when suddenly i saw a snake, then when i run, the snake were chasing men, and when i look at the snake, suddenly it multiplied, then i tried to step on the snake but it bit me at my foot. then i run again, but the snakes were dead. then i took my fone and call my dad for help, (my hands are numb that time) then another snake came, i tried to step on it but it bit me at my (weeny) then i grab the snake and hold it in his head and killed it. and when i woke up, my hands are numb. thanks for reading.
I was in a house, supposedly mine, as soon as I opened the fridge, I saw 3 worms, red, blue and yellow. I felt scared; I quickly ran to my mom, I thought the worms were colorful due to some weird chemical formula, as I walked to my room, found more. I then saw a cockroach, (I’m terrified of them), I told my mom we couldn’t sleep in the house that night, as I even found a snake while packing.
While we were in the car, my mom was driving, and I was sitting right beside her, I was playing with what I thought was my pet snake. It kept biting me, but I thought it wasn’t poisonous. I then told my mom that I liked our pet snake, she looked at me in complete awe, then told me we never had a pet snake. It was at that second that I saw the snake bite my on my finger, it started bleeding. I was scared as I thought the snake was poisonous.
had a dream that snakes were in my shorts, pulled garden snakes out and then one big thick one bit me before i could pull it out, and just found out that my daughter had a dream that a snake bit her hand on the same night? wow hu? i wonder if there is any meaning behind both of us having dreams about snakes on the same night?
I dreamt a small (approx foot long) black & white snake was flying around the room I was in & it took 2 bites at my left wrist. I ‘knew’ it was venomous. It kept coming near me – my husband was in the room & asked him to do something but said he couldn’t?
i dream of snake last night the scenario was i was fighting with someone like in a movie then in a sofa where my mom sit on the left corner suddenly on the right corner of sofa theres a snake,and its was on it sitting on its own body and calm and when i smashed it with wide wood it didnt die then it attack me and bit me on my right foot,then it came back on its sitting position on sofa.then i wake up and so confuse on whats the maning of that dream..
i had a dream in early morning near five am that i suppose to come out from my home, that time i feel a shadow of snake passed in front of me but i moved little left side of my home, that time i feel a lengthy blackish ash color two meter lengthy snake had bit me two times, i picked and pulled away from me, snake chase and bite my left hand.
I dreamt of snake bitting my right hand finger n it was very much painful. I woke up in fear. Please tell me what does it resembles
dreamt i was bitten repeatedly up and down both arms had to pull the snakes off of me and was bleeding, making my way to doctor through veldt and was walking on snakes suddenly faced by giant spitting cobra, spat twice at my face, i hit it and ran, got to doctor and the bites started to pour out white liquid which congealed and dried and then re-oozing almost constant building up crusts and hardened rivulets from the top of arms to tips of fingers…terrified by this…i have just lost what i thought was my ex-husband to an un-natural death and have just found out we were never divorced…help i feel like im losing my sensibility!
I dreamt of a beautiful light blue snake when I saw it I tried to run but it chased after me until it bit in in stomach & woke up crying. This snake was beautiful but I panicked & ran away.
I’ve had two dreams about snakes.
The first one was that I was in an old house with my aunt and her boyfriend. It was night time and my aunt decided to go outside when suddenly, a bunch of little black snakes jumped out of nowhere and bit her. Her boyfriend tried to help but he couldn’t do anything about it.
The second one was last night. I dreamt that I went to this park with a pool with a bunch of my friends. We were walking in the pool and they were ahead of me when I stepped on a black snake that the bit me on my left leg and right elbow. I got out of the pool an told a lady a had been bitten by a snake. When I turned around there was this lady taking all of the snakes out of the pool and they were all on the floor. They all started slithering towards me and I had no place to go or climb. That’s all I remember and I didn’t wake up till this morning.
I dreamt that i went t c sum1s snake n it was poisonous n it bit my right hand and leg and then i was frantically searchin for an antidote :/ i had jus watched a program with a rattle snake on before i went t sleep tho x
Dreamed- I’m in the woods, daytime, 1 cobra , 1 rattlesnake and 1 Moomba all bite me once in my left arm top, mid & bottom, just woke up now! weird!!!
It started out with me acting in a gang related movie which then started to be the real deal. As i exited the building with my cousin who was currently dealing with a gang conflict, it was brought to our attention that someone stole his car. We soon realized who the culprits may be and they were waiting for us to kill us through a drive by. ( CUTTING TO THE POINT) I was shot multiple times, but the didn’t manage to hit any fatal parts. I then dropped and tried my best to fake my death. As i was waiting for a right time to arise, I noticed it was raining. the water filling the cracks on the cement started to turn into a Orange Snake. At first I ignored it as it passed by me. A little time had passed and the snake appeared before me again..this time i was wary of it and what it could possibly do to me. As it slithered side to side towards my face, I began to move out of its way, but the snake was also wary of me now and as it based my face it began to make its move. I was bit on my back side and start to panic. I tried to catch him by his head, but he too wasn’t going to give in to my grasp and he started going for my neck. It was a big struggle and before he could make a full contact with my neck, I woke up.
I don’t know what this dream could signify, but I’ve been worrying about certain stuff such as my relationship with someone and also sexual temptation that I’ve been doing my best to ignore.
Thanks for taking the time to read this. I took it upon myself to right this up as soon as I woke up, so it’s still a little fresh.
i saw a pink snake with a transparent tube in between through which blood was passing then it buldged and some green part with yellow end got attached to it then it started moving as if want to attack suddenly attacked on my neck
Last night I dream I was swimming in a clear river ,when I swam by a small hole in the ground and a black long black snake came out and bit me in my left hand and right foot.
I had a dream where snake bite is painful to me and when I aspected a heal the snake came out of that bite. And I got healed automatically and my pain got reduced the snake was navy blue shiny colored
dont worry that is only a dream thats it cool
Last night 23/07 i have a dream of 2 small yellow skanes which i was holding both snakes onmy hands and one bite me
i had a dream tht my ex whom im very close to still was laying in bed with our son who is older now but was a baby in my dreams was lating on my ex cheat they were sleeping i walk into the room were they are laying and they were surrounded by snakes and I said to him dont move he woke up and threw my son to the ground and all the snakes attacked him and we were pulling them off him he layed on the floor dieing in my arms while we told each other thing about forgivness back and fourth to one aNOTHER
I had a dream that I saw a snake outside of my home but when I took a second look it was half snake half dog. In my dream I swiftly turned around to run from it but it started to run like a crocodile chasing me down the driveway and when I turned back it took a snatch at me and bit me. It was the strangest dream ever. I did not feel the bite but I knew it bit me.
I HAD A DREAM OF A SNAKE,MY WHOLE LEFT ARM WAS IN HIS MOUTH,I WAS BEATING MY ARM WITH THE SNAKE ACROSS THE DRESSER,THAN I WAS PULLING THE SNAKE OFF MY ARM BUT IT WENT ALITTLE FARTHER UP.SO I WOKE UP CRYING, SHAKING VERY MUCH SCARED TO DEATH THINK IT WAS IN THE ROOM WITH ME.
I dreamt that 2 small snake rolled around my ankle and planted there teeth and tighten up , 2 snake rolled around my wrist and did the same .it was in the middle of the night in my bed .then I was worried didn’t know what to do if I should remove them or not .I woke up a bit later ( still in my dream ) and saw the snake still there but it hurt me more it was a bit dark and I went in the bathroom and took them of .when I look at my body I had tattoo all over my arms and legs unfinished some because I took the snake of to soon . The tattoo where native american and meant my love for my girlfriend and some other signs . Then I wanted to have them continued so I went back to sleep hoping the snakes to come back to roll around me that the tattoos continue getting done because it was unfinished when I went back to sleep I woke up ( in reality), I looked at myself and no tattoos hehe but what a beautiful dream and tatoos . I WOULD LOVE AN EXPLANATION. Thanks
i had a dream las night that my mom got 2 new snakes and the smaller one i would play with it all the time but then there was a bigger snake (the kind that kills their pray by strangling it) and it was big enough to eat a cat. so one time i tried to reach in to grab the big one and it bit me on the hand . Then i woke up
I had a dream I was walking and felt a small pain on my foot, I think the left foot and then looked and small snake bit my foot on botton and 2 little holes and then walking around and the missionaries held up my foot and bubbly poison coming out of my foot and was very fast and I was telling them call 911 and then phone would not work and then I woke up but not a lot of pain.
Last night I had the craziest dream of a snake biting me. I was at a friends house hanging out sitting by the pool at night, the pool was lit up and I kept looking at the snake swimming around in it. In the dream my friend kept on telling me the snake was harmless and don’t be afraid, but I had a feeling it had it out for me. all of a sudden the snake jumps out of the water and latches on to my right hand. I grab it by the neck ripe it off me…. but it kept on trying to get me… meanwhile my friend is screaming in the backround to calm down. I start running for the inside door,as i close it I can hear the snake right out side hissing.
What does that mean? I was so upset and scared I could not go back to sleep, until morning..
my dream is so weird! At first my 9 yo special needs daughter was playing with a friend of mines daughter when both of them got bitten on their leg. I woke up and after a couple hours i took a nap and this time i got bit on the leg and one bit a cat and one when to bite my husband on his neck when he grabbed it.. I ran in the house and started waking ppl up screaming i had to get to the hospital when i woke up! Can anyone tell me what this may mean??
I had a dream where I was walking down the alley behind my house. There was a lot of tall, straw like grass surrounding the edges of the alley, as I was walking further into the alley, the grass became thicker and was making it difficult to walk all the way through. Suddenly a mass of snakes emerged from the tall grass and all lept onto me, biting me. I rushed back into my home to inform my family of what had happened, however it seemed that no poison was injected into me. I could feel the bites all over my body during the dream and they were very painful.
It was a really vivid dream.
I was going to have lunch with my friend in a small food stall. There was a small table and a bench for three persons to sit. A fat guy was sitting in the middle of the bench, so I took a seat right on his left (my friend was on his right). I saw there was a kind of food display in a transparent box on the table. When I was about to sit, I saw a green snake on top of it.
The snake was staring at me with mouth open wide. I could see its fangs. Four of them. I was afraid but I chose to sit there anyway, thinking, “This is my territory, why would a snake linger there?” I was gonna tell the hawker to get rid of the snake, but it was too late. The snake snapped to my right wrist and injected its poison deep down my skin.
It was painful. Really. I called my friend to help me. “A SNAKE! A SNAKE BIT ME! HELP!” Then my friend hasted to pull the snake’s head and take the fangs out of my wrist. I didn’t know what my friend did to that snake. I was busy looking at my wound. My arm became purple and swollen. I was freaking afraid but the fat guy told me, “It’s okay. The poison won’t hurt you. You just need to hot-compress your arm then you’ll be okay.”
I believed what he said, then I told my friend to get me a hot compress. She did put the compress on my wound and I was healed.
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What does it suppose to mean?
I had a dream it was in my own house where i am now, it was a guy was in the bath and then he screamed when we go there it was a black big fat snake in there then it dissepeared my mom gone and he got normal then i saw the snake going down from the stairs it was my litlle baby brother sleeping in there so i was trying to move the snake from my brother when i moved he bite me in the back of my right hand :’( i asked my dad he said it that it was a good sign but it doesnt look like
I couldnt sleep all night and when i did i went into a dream that i was in my room on my bed so it seemt so real, a snake the size of my ceiling fan from the carpet floor in my room came to strike me, i kicked it back once with my foot and it came again and bit me once in the neck and it was staring at me with its teeth sanked in me for about 3 to 4 seconds…i woke up scared and sweaty, confused
So this is a weird one. I think I was a guy in the wild west, and my wife was my mom. We moved to some tiny house and there were snakes everywhere. This orange and black striped one, which I later googled and found out is a scarlet king snake, started chasing me and bit the back of my calf. my mom/wife wouldn’t suck out which I’m sure reflects my belief that she does nothing that doesn’t benefit her.
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my dream was about me and my boyfriend was in some old factory and i saw this rattle snake and for some reason i wanted to pick it up an get it out well when i did it was so strong it wiggled its head loose from my grip and bit me on my right hand 2xs, after that i started freaking out and was yelling at my boyfriend frantickly that i needed to get to a hospital bc i only had an hour to live and for some reason it was like he didnt care an he kept messing around putting off the fact i was in desprite need to get to a hospital an for some reason i couldnt leave the spot i was at without him an then the last 10 mins came around he still was messin around tryin to find somethin and then i awoke,,, i cant make meanin of this an i have had 2 other dreams simular to this on an it is confusing bc i no n reall life my boyfriend would hav dropped anything to take me to the hospital. is there any one out there that can help???
I remember a baby diamondback rattlesnake bitting me (I counted 13 bites) on my left calf. I also remember several more slithering around all over the place indoors and out. For some reason I didn’t get sick from the bites though. I rmember going to Urgent Care and the bites were very visible but I don’t remember having any effects from them? Also, my boyfriend woke me up right after I looked at the bites and I was drenched in sweat for some reason. I never sweat in my sleep and it was really bad!?
All I can remember is a snake biting me 4 times on my leg and i started crying from the pain and then I woke up in tears..
I was playing volleyball with some friends, when we noticed a snake in the sand. I picked up the snake and put in into the woods, it was just a gartner. As we continued playing I noticed another snake, I picked this one up and it bit me. I put him into the wooods, but then I kept finding more and more snakes, eventually after moving them and getting bitten several times, we realized it wasnt worth it anymore. My finger turned black and blistered from the bites.
I had a dream that I was outside and a skInny braided a
Black snake with a forked tongue bit me when I tried
to go after it. It went up my sleeve, bit me then died
I had a dream where I was at a waste yard, I put my hand in some water and a water snake wrapped itself around my hand…I couldnt look at it, so my sister, who was with me in the dream, was meant to watch it and tell me when it had gone, and get rid of it. She obviously didnt do a very good job because it bit me very badly and deeply and clung on for a long time. I had to go to hospital immediatley to get a cure to prevent me from dying..but I didnt make it. I wasnt very worried, when it bit me..I just seemed to accept my fate.
i had a dream that i was in a jungle suddenly someone slipped an old man’s stick in a ground hole.then suddenly the dream shifted to my building wing and the snake saw me with ferocity .it was yellow snake with red spots and then it bit me 2 times on the palm of my hand.no idea what it means
I dreamt that I was bitten in the hand repeatedly by a black and yellow snake. Other people were around and I was wondering why they werent scared or being bitten. It would perch on the edge of a roof and come flying down in a straight line and bite between my thumb and finger. After a time of this, it was finally slithering around on the ground and there was an old typewriter attached to a large block of wood that I trapped it under. Then I noticed I had a large hole on my right hand. When I went back later I noticed the object had been moved and I got nervous because I knew the snake was loose again.
I dreamt that I was in a classroom, and on the floor there was a regular snake on the floor slithering around. So I decided to pick it up just below its head and when I did it was a purple cobra then it bit my hand. Soon after I started to turn into this reptilian looking creature, this had to have been the weirdest dream I’ve had.
all i remember is that the snake bit me on the lip
all i remember it that the snake bit me on the lip
I took a nap in the middle of the which is very unusual for me and I dreamed I lived in an apartment. I am very scared of snakes but i had a black spotted brown snake as a pet and some how a white yellow spotted snake got in my apartment and killed my pet snake. Didn’t bother me and just slided back down the hallway on its way out the door I poured some flour on it the snake an swept it out of my door. I am so lost behind this dream.
To me your dream signifies a spiritual awaking for you. You have been asleep at this time in your life and the pet” you have made is the evil in your life. The white snake is the good that will over take the bad in your life. You won’t mind this change. The sweeping of your house is the spiritual cleansing that you complete.
I took a nap in the middle of the which is very unusual for me and I dreamed I lived in an apartment. I am very scared of snakes but i had a black spotted brown snake as a pet and some how a white yellow spotted snake got in my apartment and killed my pet snake. Didn’t bother me and just slided back down the hallway on its way out the doorand I told some flour an through on the snake an swept it out of my door. I am so lost behind this dream.
I was been chased by the snake an wouldn’t leave me no matter were I ran in the yard.it chased me that I fell off a wall hanging on by one hand it jumped over then strike me in the right an I fell I then landed on the ground after fallen numerous of feet high to then pick the snake up by its head poison was coming out an put a fight in my hands that I had to let it go it chased me again into the house were family were an still tried biting me an chasing me around the table I was frantic for the bite was poisonous I was told by stepdad that it mite be for the snakes striking postion to finally wake up frantic an scared
I had a dream that a huge yellow snake was chasing me and repeatedly striking at me to bite me. I kept trying to hit it with objects to get it away but it kept bitting me. I ran in a room and closed the door to get away and it kept slithering under the door to try and get me.
I had a dream bout snakes n house, but what botherd me was my 4yr old son got bit on his left arm by one of the snakes.
I dreamt that i was barefoot outside with some friend’s and a small little snake bit my toe. I than continued to dream of several huge snake’s after that hanging from tree’s & slithering side ways very quickly. My grandparents who are now deceased were also in my dream.
I hope to hear back with a interpretation on this dream of mine
THANKS!
I dreamt that a person infront of me was holding on to a small little snake ( could be my friend) and told me that it wont bite. so i was curious and went forward to look at it but it bits me on my left hand and on my right hand (around my wrist area).
I remembered telling someone that i need to rush to the hospital to get treatment ASAP if not the poison will spread within an hour time. While on the cab to the hospital, i was thinking of sucking out the poison from the affected areas.
woke up after that i think? couldnt remember much from it.
Hope to get an answer. Been thinking what’s the interpretation is all about
thanks
I had a dream that was extremely vivid i was picking up a snake trying to get the snake out of the house, then i began struggling with the snake it reached around and bit me on my right hand, after that it was coming after me trying to bite me again, it is then that i was face to face with the snake on the very bed i was sleeping on and i woke up, scared i jumped up for a split second still half asleep and was still trying to avoid the snake. Thanks for reading