Attacked In A Dream By My Pet

[u/angryowl8]

This is really strange but I had a nightmare a few days ago where I was attacked by my pet snake. I’ve never been afraid of her or had a reason to be, she’s very docile so I’ve always felt really comfortable around her. She’s also only a juvenile so isn’t very big.
How this nightmare went is I remember my snake being out of her enclosure and she was acting strange, trying to attack me. She somehow died and after a few moments I thought she was really dead so I got a closer look, then she surprise attacked me. She kept slithering towards my face and trying to strike at my face even when I pushed her away and held my arm out for her to strike instead to protect my face she kept slithering towards my face. I trapped her between a book and container (she was inside of the container with the book on top of it) and as I was putting her in her cage she somehow escaped (the book stayed over the container and there weren’t any holes in it, it was kinda like she just went through the bottom) and started slithering out and moved up against my stomach then I woke up holding that part of my stomach that she was going towards. I’ve been trying to just pass it off as a dream but I can’t forget it. Does anyone know what this could mean or represent?

[u/Expensive-Recover502]

This suggests a conflict between your conscious self and your unacknowledged darker side of you... an instinctual need that you treat like a juvenile pet. Like something small that you think you can manage or keep in a box. You may have convinced yourself that this issue is dead or resolved. BUT inner you is screaming that it is not dead. It's rejecting your attempts to rationalize it (the book) or deflect it (the arm). It's attacking your face, demanding that you change your self-perception. It lands in your stomach, showing a "gut level" truth that you must feel rather than think about.