If you have dreamed of Being Surrounded by Snakes in your dream: This responsibility may also bind your communicative affairs or financial issues. If you are surrounded by snakes in your dream, it is interpreted that there are dangerous and two-faced people around the dreamer, and he will be harmed unless he is careful about these people. It also indicates that the person should not trust everyone around him immediately, that they are running business behind the dreamer's back and that they are trying to dig his well.
The person who cuts the snake in two in the dream will benefit from his enemy. This dream is an indication that you will take advantage of the property of someone who is jealous of you. Sometimes this dream is interpreted as persecuting the enemy. The one who cuts the snake in two will be victorious over the enemy in real life.
Dream: You are making your way through some unfamiliar territory when you encounter a number of slithering and writhing snakes. They are often in a pit in front of you or surrounding you as they wriggle around on the floor. You are anxious that you might fall over and become covered in them as they crawl all over you. Some of the snakes may be rearing up and getting ready to attack by sinking their fangs into you. Others may be sliding across the ground towards you as they try to wrap you in their muscular coils.
Meaning: Dreaming of being surrounded by snakes often suggests that you are encountering a number of opportunities to transform yourself in your daily life. Although most people don’t encounter actual snakes on a regular basis in their day-to-day lives, they appear regularly as slithering and sliding symbols in our dreams. Snakes symbolize opportunities for change and often represent your ability to grow and mature in waking life. Your skin represents the meeting place where your inner and outer worlds join, as it is the visible embodiment of all your actions and behaviours. In the same way that a snake sheds its skin, you also help your healthy growth by discarding aspects of your behaviour that are no longer of value to you. Being in a pit or on the ground suggests that you have to take some practical steps forward to embrace these opportunities for transformation. Although you are concerned that you might be overwhelmed by opportunities and feel this might be your downfall, your increasing confidence will make it easier to move forward. Snakes rearing and showing their fangs suggest that you are concerned about the criticism you might receive from others as you start to transform your life. The constrictors slithering across the floor indicate that other people might be trying to constrict your freedom and give you no room to manoeuvre as you try to step into your new future. Many people are scared of change because, like a snake, it can seem threatening to their survival.
Action: This dream is alerting you to an opportunity for personal change by taking some transformative action in your waking life. You may be afraid to make this move because you know it will mean having to let go of part of your old life before you can begin to move into the new one. Letting go of old habits and self-limiting behaviours will give you more freedom for personal growth. The more you can open yourself up to these new possibilities, the more comfortable you will be in your own skin.
Background: Snakes and serpents occupy a uniquely symbolic presence in nearly all cultures. One of their main associations is with medicine and healing, and a snake can be seen entwined around the Rod of Asclepius, the symbol of a practising doctor. Many pharmaceutical associations use the Bowl of Hygieia, symbolized by a medicine bowl with a snake wrapped around it. Snakes also symbolize transformation, as they have the ability to change their skins. We all experience the snake-like umbilical cord when we emerge into the world, as we leave our mother’s skin behind and are born into our own individual skins.