Snakes

I don’t know why I was swimming in a dark black lagoon with no end in sight. I shouldn’t say I was actually swimming, more like trying to get out. In the water there were these long biting snakes. There were other people in the lagoon with me. I honestly don’t even recall who they were. I just know we were trying to distract and get around the snakes. At one point, a couple of the people figured out how to kill a few of them. For a few moments I thought we’d get out. But then there were more. At one point, I thought let me close my eyes and just make run for it. There is no where else to go and if they bite me, they bite me.

This dream was the first I’ve had of this kind. I’ve had lots of horrible scary dreams in the past, ones about being chased, shot at… and then the annoying ones that repeat at certain times in my life. The roller coaster road dream, the elevator dream, the packing up in a rush dream. Those are the ones that came at different periods in my life. I’m still I think living with the packing up dream unless after last night, it will now be on repeat of snakes.

I wish it was clear what they meant and how to make them go away. I often wake up during my dreams and can remember almost everything. At least clearly for the first few minutes. If I write it down, longer.

There is definitely some irony to it. Today I was talking to a patient who compared one of her surgeries to a snake. To even hear her say “snake” was creepy.