Dream Interpretation

patientlee

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My family is pet sitting for a corn snake this summer. Last night I dreamt that hubby sautéed him in garlic butter, and we ate him with a fork and knife.

Thoughts? ;)
 
My family is pet sitting for a corn snake this summer. Last night I dreamt that hubby sautéed him in garlic butter, and we ate him with a fork and knife.

Thoughts? ;)

Haven't you conquered your fear of original sin yet?
lol ;)
 
Did you get the recipe for sautéed grass snake out of a book, and wipe your chins with a handkerchief when you'd eaten it?
;)
 
Some ancient religions regard the snake as purveyors of wisdom. In this context, regarding the Biblical story of the Garden of Eden, who's really the bad guy? Satan, for wanting to give Adam and Eve knowledge, or God, wanting to keep them in the dark?

But I digress. Don't want to begin a religious argument here.

Personally, I like the little legless critters. They eat mice, which burrow into things and poop all over the garage. In contrast, snakes keep to themselves unless you piss them off . . . .

Or, it could just be that you had a funny little dream, and that maybe you're curious as to how snakes taste. Here's a hint: they don't taste like chicken. ;)
 
I have a feeling that your next story will feature a corn snake getting fried.... :rolleyes:
 
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You have a choice of interpretations. Freudian. Baptist. Cognitive. Jungian. Dianetic. Subgenius.

But sometimes, a snake is just a snake.
 
Dreams per se mean nothing. Humans dream every 90 minutes, day and night; its the brain's way of taking out the trash.
 
My first thought is don't ask Patientlee and Doopey to house sit your pet while you're away! :D
 
Did it taste like chicken?

The grilled rattlesnake I once had did.

Wait, it was a dream...
 
Is he still refusing your gracious offerings of defrosted rat? Your brain may be radically reinterpreting the aphorism, "Eat or be eaten."
 
Swilly- some days I wonder how it is that I'm allowed to have children, never mind pets.

FantasyXY- no. It tasted like corn. :D Actually, it was like a perfect shrimp scampi.

Stl- I'm thawing a rat as we speak.

It's all good, folks. I got this snake thing under control. Sort of.
 
I dunno. I'm of a mind to think sometimes dreams just mean nothing. It's like you left your mind on when you went to sleep and the reel keeps spinning, replaying events and things to you in a big mash up.

Yet sometimes, I think that mashup actually might resemble something meaningful. I'd have to know more obviously, but maybe you weren't all that thrilled to be snake sitting, and cravings for fried food mashed with that. Maybe you don't mind snake sitting at all, but you've considered that something bad might happen to it under your care. Maybe fried snakes and jarsss of dead things came to haunt you in YOUR dreams this time.

Who knows what really happens in the corners of our subconscious. I don't like to dream anymore for reasons of my own, I like daydreaming so much better, because I can control those and they lead me to write some good stuff.

...I have to ask, have you checked the snake to make sure it was actually a dream?
 
What I think is that the snake symbolizes ....

No, no I better shut up. I have a very very dirty mind.
 
I dunno. I'm of a mind to think sometimes dreams just mean nothing. It's like you left your mind on when you went to sleep and the reel keeps spinning, replaying events and things to you in a big mash up.

Yet sometimes, I think that mashup actually might resemble something meaningful. I'd have to know more obviously, but maybe you weren't all that thrilled to be snake sitting, and cravings for fried food mashed with that. Maybe you don't mind snake sitting at all, but you've considered that something bad might happen to it under your care. Maybe fried snakes and jarsss of dead things came to haunt you in YOUR dreams this time.

Who knows what really happens in the corners of our subconscious. I don't like to dream anymore for reasons of my own, I like daydreaming so much better, because I can control those and they lead me to write some good stuff.

...I have to ask, have you checked the snake to make sure it was actually a dream?

You are right about the mashup thing SecondCircle...

I took part in an actual scientific study of dreams several years ago. This wasn't some kind of get in touch with your spirituality, let's see how psychology works, wanna predict what happens when the planets aline sort of thing. It was a real scientific study with parameters, tests, control subjects and everything.

Turns out that dreams are truly a mashup of events and emotions that your mind has perceived, combined with what your body is feeling while you sleep. This dream mashup comes from things that all make perfect sense, except they are all out of order and in the wrong context. So when you awake and recall a dream it seems to be weird or impossible.

Here are couple of examples I remember from the study:
1. If you are dreaming that you are trying to get somewhere or do something (usually something to know how to do like make your way home) but you can't seem to accomplish what you are trying to do; and the task has a sense of urgency to it - Then you need to get up and go to the bathroom. (The urgency part is needing to pee, and the task is something from your memory)

2. If you dream that you are naked or in your underwear in public and no one else seems to notice but you - You need to cover yourself with your blanket. This dream is combines the feeling of being uncovered with your own memories of day to day interactions with others.

It also turns out, the weirder the dream the more of a mashup it is. Unless the dreams are night terrors, generally related to PTSD; there isn't really anything worth doing about them other than maybe using these fun odd mashups in stories.

One last note: The study found that dreams are more vivid and variable today than they were 100 years ago due to television. Something seen on TV can easily become part of your dream mashup, where before TV, the mashup came mostly from real life experiences.
 
Maybe I should try sautéing this frozen rat in garlic butter. The snake doesn't seem too happy with my warm water bath preparation. I'm following the instructions to he letter.
 
Well, it was that whole knife and fork thing that threw me off. I'd think you like it in one piece. Of course, it could signify an inch at a time...and...well. Okay. Enough of that!
 
Makes me recall the old joke about a gay man that went into the butcher shop and asked for a bologna. When asked how he wanted it sliced, the man replied: "Does my ass look like a piggy bank?"
 
I'm told that the Parachute Regt. insists that all 'cooked' snakes be curried.
 
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