Lauri in mindbodygreen: What Dreams About Snakes Mean

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What Lauri told mindbodygreen

mindbodygreen asked Lauri why snakes keep slithering into so many people’s dreams. She noted that snakes are the third most common animal in her clients’ dreams, after dogs and cats, and that a snake most often points to a toxic person or situation in waking life. Because snakes appear on medical symbols, a snake can also point to a need for physical healing, so a bite may even work like a shot of healing serum.

Lauri explained that the details change the message. Where the snake shows up matters: in the bedroom it may relate to someone you are intimate with, and at work it can reflect distrust of the people around you. Color matters too. A red snake is a red flag you may be ignoring, green can point to jealousy, yellow to fear, white to a fresh start and black to the unknown. A rattlesnake echoes a warning you already sensed, while a harmless garter snake suggests a threat that turned out to be nothing.

If the dream keeps coming back, she suggests asking what in your life has lasted as long as the dream, and comparing the dream with the day before it. Once the real situation is resolved, the dream tends to stop.

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