Snake Skin

To dream of snake skin represents you or someone else that projects the feeling of corruption, contamination, or threats of total failure. Feelings projected about the possibility of corruption, ruination, or failure. Suspicious feelings about others trying to corrupt or ruin you.

To dream of wearing snake skin clothing represents an aspect of your personality that feels as though it's corrupting anything not listening to it. The personality that chooses to get back at people with corruption or total failure for not listening.

To dream of shedded snake skin represents feelings about behavior not longer needing to think of a previous way of corruption, insidiousness, or being subjected to the fear of total failure. Feelings of corruption that are not important or serious anymore. Immorality or corruption experienced as a past issue.

Example: A woman dreamed of eating shed snake skin. In waking life she had interest in a man, but her strong religious father and personal faith made her feel that considering it even in passing may be immoral.

Skin

To dream of skin represents the mental and emotional boundaries between you, other people, and the events of your life. It's how you protect or resist attacks on your feelings or ego.

Alternatively, skin in dreams may reflect your ability to like yourself or feel good about yourself. Heightened sensitivity or not feeling good about something. Not feeling good about what someone said to you. Hurtful comments.

Having no skin would symbolize complete vulnerability to negative influences or emotional attack. Seeing others with no skin would represent aspects of your personality with no ability to feel good ever again. Positively, seeing someone with no skin may in a dream reflect a an aspect of yourself that is experiencing strong emotional influences. A total lack of concern for how you feel in order to achieve a difficult or incredible goal.

To dream of burned skin may reflect feelings about someone intentionally trying to make you never feel good again. The consequences of our actions or others actions that leave us feelings of having been "burned" emotionally by someone close to us.

To see creatures that burrow under the skin would symbolize problems that bug you or that have gotten to you. Feeling "creeped out."

To dream of a snake shedding skin represents feelings about yourself or others no longer having to notice the bad things they done ever again. Negatively, this may reflect a corrupt person getting worse. Positively, it may reflect feelings ab out yourself or a bad person getting the chance to move on with their lives.

Crystal Meth addict often hallucinate about bugs burrowing holes and crawling under their skin. This may symbolize their annoyance about the drug's effects feeling to have permanently worn off and leaving the addict unable to feel good about themselves anymore.

Example: A man dreamed seeing a woman with all her skin ripped off by a huge knife. In waking life he was experiencing a dramatic worsening of a skill condition that didn't allow him to have any confidence in himself at all.

Example 2: A woman dreamed of seeing her friends recently deceased daughter jump into her skin which was hanging in a closet. In waking life the woman was helping her friend clean out her dead daughter's closet and felt she had to put on an enthusiastic attitude about the dead daughter's life each time she went over to the home to help clean out the dead daughter's belongings.

Example 3: A man dreamed of trying to prick his father's skin with a syringe. In waking life he was trying to convince his father to get a job when it was very important to fix his life up.

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Skinhead

To dream of a skinhead represents assertive degree of intolerance. A complete unwillingness to listen to others ideas at all. Brutal insensitivity. Preoccupation with proving you are tough.

Negatively, a skinhead may reflect an ignorant or aggressive attempt to stifle others ideas or choices. Going too far trying to prove that you aren't weak.

Animal Skins

To dream of animal skins represents feelings of confidence that you are in full control of a situation. Feeling good about problems being pathetic and totally managed. Feeling confident in your ability to use someone or repeat a humiliation whenever you want. Confident acceptance of yourself being bigger than someone else. Feelings of being an accomplished winner that can't lose ever again. Enjoying yourself with total power to humiliate your enemies.

Feeling good that someone else is permanently embarrassed with no way to get back at you. Enjoyment of someone else being 100% powerless against you. Pride about bullies you humiliated.

Negatively, animal skins may reflect pride in overpowering and permanently humiliating innocent people. Enjoying yourself with someone else's powerlessness or weakness.

Consider the animal for additional meaning.

Example: A woman dreamed of putting baby deer skins on her bed. In waking life she was considering totally humiliating her husband in divorce court with depraved pornographic pictures and axe photos with death threats he sent her which she had saved. The baby deer skins in this case my have reflected her confident feelings about how easy it would be to humiliate her husband in divorce court with the offensive photos for thinking she was just a powerless naive housewife. She had previously threatened him with releasing the photos to control him.

Leopard Skin Clothing

To dream of leopard skin clothing represents a bold personality. Not caring what anyone else thinks. You may be doing something, or taking chances that most people wouldn't.

Mamba Snake

To dream of a mamba snake represents feelings about corruption, contamination, or total failure that likes a situation exactly the way it is. Fear of total failure from an issue that doesn't mind if you don't change it. Emotionally deadly or lethal passivity. A situation or person that feels good thinking nothing is wrong while being deadly. Feeling that dangerous situation is not laughing at you, but strikes with total failure if you don't do anything about it. Feelings about someone or something that doesn't look angry, but has the potential to cause total failure if left as it is. The worst problem ever that doesn't look like it wants to be.

Negatively, dreaming about a mamba snake represents feelings about someone too adorable, old, famous, rich, or busy to believe they are deadly. Failure from something you didn't believe minded you. A sense of something being emotionally lethal to accept someone else's problem. Potentially lethal behavior that feels good guilty and doesn't think it's polite to bother it. Potentially lethal failure that doesn't think it's better than you and never wants to talk to you at all. Feelings about the threat of total failure that doesn't want you to believe anything is wrong.

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Shedding

To dream of skin shedding represents feelings about letting go of an unhelpful emotional state. Letting go of old habits, ways of thinking, lifestyle choices, or behaviours. Choosing to think or feel in a new way. "Shedding" the past, guilt, anger, or addiction. Letting go of your romantic feelings for someone.

To dream of a snake shedding it's skin may reflect feelings about something dangerous you are aware of about to change methods or do something different. Negatively or the potential for failure that is renewing it's efforts.

Skin Cancer

To dream of skin cancer represents an inability to feel good enjoying yourself again in some manner. Fearing that your ability to feel good is cut off and can only get worse.

A problem may have been created in your life due to too much enjoyment or freedom. Living with the consequences of having enjoyed yourself too much. Caution, anxiety, or careful avoidance of pleasure because you may have abused certain behavior to the point of causing a noticeable problem.

Feeling embarrassed into a conservative moderate mindset after first being rebellious or carefree to you heart's content.

Skin Cream

To dream of skim cream represents situations where you or someone else is using something to help feel better.

Example: A man dreamed of seeing someone using his skin cream. In waking life the man's father was using his vitamins to help himself sleep better.

Skinned

To dream of a person being skinned represents feelings about being intentionally cut off from feeling good ever again in some manner. Happiness or purpose is being permanently cut off. Feeling forced to feel that you will never matter ever again.

To dream of skinning an animal represents an area of your life that you feel is being made permanently inferior. Consider the animal for additionally meaning.

To dream of being skinless represents an inability to ever feel good or important ever again. Feeling that happiness or comfort is permanent lost. Feeling ripped off in a big way without any ability to respond or defend yourself.

Example: A man dreamed of seeing someone having their skin completely ripped off. In waking life he was fearing that his father would cut him out of his inheritance and leave him broke for the rest of his life.

Skinny

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Skinny Dipping

To dream of skinny dipping represents a lack of concern for hiding your honest feelings or beliefs for something you know you're aren't supposed to be doing. Freely and openly exploring an uncertain situation or taking a risk being totally honest with someone.

Example: A woman dreamed of skinny dipping with a co-worker. In real life she had a boyfriend, but was beginning to flirt with this co-worker. The skinny dipping reflects the risk of her openness about her feelings to this co-worker while knowing it wasn't right.

Skiing

To dream of skiing represents feelings about breezing through the aftermath of a difficult situation. Breezing through the aftermath of an unbearable situation. Feelings about how easy an area of your life feels after an accomplishment has been achieved or a difficult situation is over. Enjoying noticing the most difficult or unbearable part of a situation is over.

Negatively, dreaming about skiing may reflect enjoying yourself easily escaping or moving away from something dangerous. Unpleasant or terrible situations that you are doing everything you can to quickly get over with. Desperately, or quickly trying to escape the unbearableness of a situation that has settled. Feelings about easily getting away from troubles.

To dream of cross-country skiing represents feelings about carefully taking your time getting through the unbearableness of a situation that has finished. Enjoying taking your time enduring an unbearable situation. Feeling good surviving or enduring the unbearable ending of a situation. Feeling good not being a fake as you get through an unbearable situation. Enduring everyday life during retirement.

Example: A man dreamed of enjoying a lot of skiing and then felt that he had to stop. In waking life, he was semi-retired enjoying time off work, and felt that working life was calling him back. The skiing may have reflected his feelings about enjoying how much easier his life felt to live of his accomplishments in semi-retirement while feeling that he had to stop skiing may have reflected his dislike of going back to work.

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Snakes

To dream of a poisonous snake represents feelings about corruption or contamination. Snakes in dreams also tend to reflect a person's fear of total failure or serious losses. Feelings about a person or problem totally permanently ruining you. A dangerous or tricky problem you want to avoid.

Areas of your life that spoil everything associated with them. People that can't be trusted or that you feel are dangerous to not avoid. A snake could also reflect your own lack of integrity or deceptive behavior. Noticing yourself being an "evil asshole." A snake may also represent a bad influence or a person that you don't like. A person with no family values.

Often snakes point to situations that are difficult to resist, morally troublesome, or have traps that you wish to avoid. Snakes may also reflect bad habits, people, or situations that sour your mood, spirit, or good intentions. An addiction that is difficult to resist.

To dream of being bitten by a snake represents feelings about having succumb to negative influence or feelings of total failure. Feelings of corruption that have overwhelmed you. Giving in to addictions to bad influences. Suffering a loss of some kind.

To dream of fearing being bitten by a snake represents your fear of losing something important or a fear of total failure. You may fear losing power, control, safety, or your integrity.

To dream of a dead snake represents overcoming a corrupting or negative influence in your life. It may also reflect a threat of total loss that is dissipating.

Black snakes usually represent a fear of total failure. It may also reflect your feelings about the potential for corruption or excessive losses. A fear of enemies getting to control you or ruin you. Alternatively, a black snake may represent your full awareness of yourself being a liar or bad influence. Organized planning to steal or destroy other people's integrity.

A copper colored snake represents a fear of losing an opportunity to get something you are desperate to have. Fearing total loss of something you are hopelessly striving for. Allowing your desire to scare you. A fear based on a delusional belief that if you lose something special that you will lose everything you have. Alternatively, copper colored snake could represent your own hopeless or desperate attempts to scare others with total failure. Risking everything you have to corrupt others that only embarrasses you. It can also point to hurting people, lying, cheating, stealing, or disrespecting others because you can't have what you want. A light brown snake is often mistaken for a copper colored snake so consider both colors for your dream.

A light brown snake represents a fear of loss or total failure due to an improvement in your life. Fearing that fixing something will make your life worse. A positive opportunity to improve yourself that scares scares you. Powerful insecurity or a fear of embarrassment if you achieve your goals. (e.g A boy you like finding out you're a bad kisser or a virgin if you end up dating him, or fearing the government demanding more money from you if you are honest with your taxes). A copper snake is often mistaken for a light brown snake so consider both colors for your dream.

To dream of a dark brown snake may represent a fear of an improvement in your life spoiling other areas of your life. Fearing getting rid of a problem because it will make your life worse. Fearing getting rid of something important to you and becoming a failure because of it. Alternatively, a dark brown snake may reflect your own deceptive intentions to force someone else to get rid of something they don't want to get rid of.

A white snake represents a fear of total loss caused by a requirement to be perfect. Good intentions that cause others total failure. Something genuine or positive in your life that corrupts or contaminates everything else around it. Something with good intentions that has no tolerance for alternative choices. A white snake with blue venom may represent consequences that are in your best interest, but don't feel good. A fear of maturing or having to be honest. A "total evil asshole" in your life that demands perfection that you feel is excessive.

To dream of a light blue snake represents a positive person or situation that scares you with losing all you have if you don't behave positive. A fear of total failure if you are caught doing a single thing wrong. It may reflect something in your life that is being guarded or that demands total adherence to specific rules. Alternatively, a light blue snake may reflect a positive person or situation that is antagonistic to your goals. A good person that undermines you.

A dark green snake represents a corrupting influence that is selfish, arrogant, or greedy. Selfish thoughts or habits that undermine other more positive areas of your life. A strong need to put yourself first or powerful insecurities that derail a genuine endeavor. Selfishness that corrupts all else. A fear of total failure due to someone else's selfishness.

To dream of riding on the back of a snake represents feelings about something dangerous you are using to scare people away from you. Enjoying making people feel you are dangerous. Feeling that it's easy to scare people with severe losses if they get in your way. Alternatively, it may reflect a feeling of safety you get from being able to make other people feel you are too dangerous.

To dream of a being choked by a snake may represent feelings about a negative influence that is preventing you from expressing yourself.

Females often dream of snakes when they fear sex, getting pregnant, or losing their virginity.

Example: A girl once dreamed of a poisonous snake that seduced her and was impossible to resist. In real life she was dealing with an extremely attractive man that was pursuing her that she didn't trust. The snake reflected her view of this man being a "player" and just telling her whatever she wanted to hear in order to sleep with her.

Example 2: A woman dream of a white snake. In waking life she lived in a strict religious community. Due to the religious laws of this community she was unable to express herself or do anything that wasn't approved by the community. The white snake reflected her feelings about the strict morality laws of the religious community corrupting all her happiness.

Example 3: A man once dreamed of running through a forest trying to avoid snakes. In real life he was confronting a number of dangerous problems at once.

Example 4: A woman once dreamed of being choked by a snake. In real life she was resisting revealing her sexual desire for a co-worker out of fear that she'd be fired. The snake reflected her fear of being fired that was preventing her from expressing her feelings.

Example 5: A woman dreamed of being threatened by a number of dark brown snakes. In waking life her husband threatened to leave her and not talk to her again. The dark brown snakes reflected her fear of losing her husband that could spoil her family life forever.

Example 6: A woman dreamed of a grey snake chasing her. In waking life she was having anxiety about the COVID-19 virus destroying her business and harming her daughter. The snake in this case may have reflected her anxieties about COVID-19 corrupting or ruining all her hopes for her business and family.

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