A House Full of Snakes

For being a person who is not afraid of snakes, and who even owns one, I often have nightmares about snakes.

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Sometimes I have dreams that my apartment is filled with little tiny snakes like my Tess, and I am frantically trying to scoop them all up and put them in cages.  Other times one of the snakes follows me around like a dog, or I find him cut in half and growing another head like a worm.

The other night I dreamt that I bought a new house.  It was a duplex or a twin home, and my friends and I were hanging out in just one side of it, but we wanted to go into the other.  Upon entering the other side of the home, we quickly found that it was pretty battered, and full of very large snakes.  The snakes began jumping at us and we fled back to the safe/clean side of the home. In the clean side I started finding lots of little nice snakes again, and trying to put them all in the tank with my snake.

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So what does it all mean? According to Dream Moods: "To see a snake or be bitten by one in your dream signifies hidden fears and worries that are threatening you."  A lot of sources say more simply that they stand for "change."

It seems logical to think that I would dream about snakes, or change rather, when dreaming about buying a new house. The fact that the one side scary snakes (a negative symbol), and the other side were nice snakes (a positive symbol), just reflects the duality of my situation.  On the one hand I'm very excited to be buying a house and have even started looking for options; on the other hand-I'm scared to death of it.

There's a lot of change coming my way this summer.  I find myself on the edge looking out into this great vast cavern of change coming and feeling two ways about it; first being, that I should enjoy every single day until that change because life will never be the same.  On the other hand I feel like that girl in the movies who's sitting with her back to the serial killer... You know he's coming for her, but the suspense waiting for what you know will arrive is so thick you find yourself hoping he'll just get it over with.  Weird.

Is it strange to be excited and scared to death of it all at the same time?  There is so much unknown out there right now.  For now, I guess I'll just keep dreaming of snakes and hoping for the best.