For example: 

The idea slithers into the dreamer’s mind that their loyalty to a friend is actually hurting them.

The strange idea comes from the ‘unknown’.

Just like a snake emerging from the ‘dark earth’.

In the dream, the snake (symbolising the idea) interacts with the dreamer. 

This indicates the relationship of the idea with the dreamer’s normal conscious mind, even if when they are awake they don’t face this idea; they unwillingly face it in the dream in the form of the snake. 

To learn more about what the snake means the dreamer must reflect on the snakes behaviour in the dream and how it reacts to the dream situation.

Other qualities the snake has, such as speaking, physical characteristics, or the location where it is found can also give hints to its psychological meaning.​

Snakes belong to the world of vegetation and nature which is in constant transformation.

The cycle of birth, life, and death determines the fate of the natural world - which is the world of the snake.

Snakes, which belong to nature, have the secret of rebirth and eternal life.

This is symbolically expressed when a snake sheds its skin (dies) and slithers out with new skin (is reborn).

The snake is the creature familiar with the world of the unknown and serves as a mediator between the normal conscious mind (dreamer) and the dark unconscious mind (dream).

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