Eine Schlange kann Veränderung, Vorsicht oder Faszination ansprechen. Beginne mit deinen eigenen Erfahrungen mit Schlangen.
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Eine Schlange in der Nähe
Was zieht deine Aufmerksamkeit auf sich, auch wenn es still bleibt?
Eine Schlange häutet sich
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Gebissen werden
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Ein Denkanstoß
Eine beängstigende und eine schöne Schlange verlangen unterschiedliche Betrachtungen. Notiere ihren Abstand, ihre Bewegung und deine erste Reaktion. Eine Schlange, die sich häutet, kann für dich zu einem Bild des Übergangs werden; eine verborgene Schlange kann zum Nachdenken über Ungewissheit anregen. Das sind Möglichkeiten, die du an deinem Leben prüfen kannst, keine Bedeutungen, die du übernehmen musst.
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GESCHICHTEN & KONTEXTDie Geschichten hinter dem Symbol
Die Geschichten hinter dem Symbol
In antiken griechischen Darstellungen verbindet der Stab des Asklepios eine Schlange mit Heilung. Die Schlange im biblischen Garten Eden gehört zu einer ganz anderen Geschichte über Versuchung und Erkenntnis. Diese Traditionen nebeneinander zu betrachten zeigt, warum eine einzige allgemeingültige Bedeutung irreführend wäre.
Historische Darstellungen vergleichen
Dies sind historische Deutungen der Autoren. Ihre Vorhersagen und zeitgebundenen Urteile bleiben als Quellenmaterial erhalten, nicht als Prognosen oder gesicherte Bedeutungen deines Traums.
Gustavus Hindman Miller · Serpents
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints
Serpents · Heading 1809; source lines 20080–20089 · Text transcription
Originalquelle (Englisch)
To dream of serpents, is indicative of cultivated morbidity and depressed surroundings. There is usually a disappointment after this dream. See Snakes and Reptiles.
Quellenausgabe ansehen Gustavus Hindman Miller · Snakes
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints
Snakes · Heading 1867; source lines 20677–20751 · Text transcription
Originalquelle (Englisch)
For a woman to dream that a dead snake is biting her, foretells she will suffer from malice of a pretended friend.
To dream of snakes, is a foreboding of evil in its various forms and stages.
To see them wriggling and falling over others, foretells struggles with fortune and remorse.
To kill them, you will feel that you have used every opportunity of advancing your own interests, or respecting that of others. You will enjoy victory over enemies.
To walk over them, you will live in constant fear of sickness, and selfish persons will seek to usurp your place in your companion's life.
If they bite you, you will succumb to evil influences, and enemies will injure your business.
To dream that a common spotted snake approaches you from green herbs, and you quickly step aside as it passes you, and after you had forgotten the incident to again see it approaching and growing in dimensions as it nears you, finally taking on the form of an enormous serpent; if you then, after frantic efforts, succeed in escaping its attack, and altogether lose sight of it, it foretells that you will soon imagine you are being disobeyed and slighted, and things will go on from bad to worse. Sickness, uneasiness and unkindness will increase to frightful proportions in your mind; but they will adjust themselves to a normal basis, and by the putting aside of imaginary trouble, and masterfully shouldering duties, you will be contented and repaid.
To dream that a snake coils itself around you and darts its tongue out at you, is a sign that you will be placed in a position where you will be powerless in the hands of enemies, and you will be attacked with sickness.
To handle them, you will use strategy to aid in overthrowing opposition.
To see hairs turn into snakes, foretells that seeming insignificant incidents will make distressing cares for you.
If snakes turn into unnatural shapes, you will have troubles which will be dispelled if treated with indifference, calmness and will power.
To see or step on snakes while wading or bathing, denotes that there will be trouble where unalloyed pleasure was anticipated.
To see them bite others, foretells that some friend will be injured and criticised by you.
To see little snakes, denotes you will entertain persons with friendly hospitality who will secretly defame you and work to overthrow your growing prospects.
To see children playing with them, is a sign that you will be nonplussed to distinguish your friends from your enemies. For a woman to think a child places one on the back of her head, and she hears the snake's hisses, foretells that she will be persuaded to yield up some possession seemingly for her good, but she will find out later that she has been inveigled into an intrigue in which enemies will tantalize her. To see snakes raising up their heads in a path just behind your friend, denotes that you will discover a conspiracy which has been formed to injure your friend and also yourself. To think your friend has them under control, denotes that some powerful agency will be employed in your favor to ward off evil influences.
For a woman to hypnotize a snake, denotes your rights will be assailed, but you will be protected by law and influential friends. See Serpents and Reptiles.
Quellenausgabe ansehen Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Snake · Heading 737; source line 4601 · Text transcription
Originalquelle (Englisch)
To dream of snakes is a sign of an enemy, or that some one is slandering you; it also denotes quarrels and angry disputes: if an engaged young lady dreams of them, she had better ascertain positively whether her lover is all right before she marries him.
Quellenausgabe ansehen A. H. Noe · Serpent
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Serpent · Dream section, heading 462; source lines 1695–1700 · Text transcription
Originalquelle (Englisch)
To dream you see a serpent turning and winding himself, signifies danger and imprisonment. It denotes also sickness and hatred. To dream you kill a serpent, is a sign that you will overcome your enemies. To dream of beating serpents is very good, and if a serpent approaching near to do you harm, but does it not, it is a sign that some ill woman shall be disappointed in her designs.
Quellenausgabe ansehen A. H. Noe · Snakes
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Snakes · Dream section, heading 488; source lines 1795–1799 · Text transcription
Originalquelle (Englisch)
To dream you see snakes and serpents, shows that you will be imprisoned, and encounter many dangers. If you are in love, your sweetheart will be false; to dream you kill a snake, shows you will overcome difficulties and enemies and be successful in love, trade or farming, but unsuccessful at sea.
Quellenausgabe ansehen Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Snake · Dream section, heading 392; source lines 4809–4812 · Text transcription
Originalquelle (Englisch)
Denotes treason, and is a caution to be careful whom you trust.
Quellenausgabe ansehen Anonymous
Everybody’s Book of Luck · Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription
Snake, Serpent · Dream section, heading 218; source lines 4086–4088 · Text transcription
Originalquelle (Englisch)
Bad luck, sickness, short life.
Quellenhinweis (Englisch)
The source heading “Snake, Serpent” is shown on the Snakes page: book of Luck "Snake, Serpent" heading
Quellenausgabe ansehenAnonymous · Serpents
The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles · United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805
Serpents · Dreams interpreted, passage 7; source lines 130–131 · Text transcription
Originalüberschrift der Quelle: (no printed heading)
Originalquelle (Englisch)
To dream you are stung or bitten by serpents or insects, denotes mischief to come from malicious and private enemies.
Quellenhinweis (Englisch)
The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Serpents” because that is the subject of its first clause.
Quellenausgabe ansehenAnonymous · Serpents
The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles · United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805
Serpents · Dreams interpreted, passage 61; source lines 287–288 · Text transcription
Originalüberschrift der Quelle: (no printed heading)
Originalquelle (Englisch)
To dream you are bit by a serpent, signifies some danger will befal you by secret and subtile enemies.
Quellenhinweis (Englisch)
The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Serpents” because that is the subject of its first clause.
Quellenausgabe ansehenKatherine Taylor Craig · Serpent
The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern · New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition
Serpent · Printed p. 252; NLM OCR lines 11842–11853 · OCR transcription
Originalquelle (Englisch)
A dream of temptation and of evil (Gypsy). Obviously the dream interpreters of modern times have accepted the Christian and Jewish symbolism, rather than that of more remote antiquity. Freud and Jung, however, revert to more primitive times and interpret this as an erotic dream. Raphael interprets the serpent dream as one of "a deadly enemy bent on your ruin; to kill one denotes success over your enemy." The serpent was the ancient Egyptian symbol of wisdom and of the sun; curled in a circle it represented time without end; twisted around a staff, it denoted health. "More subtle thou art than any beast of the field" (Bible).
Quellenausgabe ansehen Katherine Taylor Craig · Snake
The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern · New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition
Snake · Printed p. 254; NLM OCR lines 11964–11965 · OCR transcription
Originalquelle (Englisch)
See Serpent.
Quellenausgabe ansehen Quellen dieser Seite
- Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Quellenhinweis (Englisch)
General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections.
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