To see in the dreams a snake and a worm marks self-sufficient earnestness, fertile libido, artistry and might. This dream’s symbolism has disparate meaning counting on whether you have a snake as a pet or not. By another analysis it stands for contretemps and rough win. The dream might suggest that someone could be loyal and straightforward in regard to your interests. Yet, if you are not a snake and a worm fan or if it was bad dream then a dream should foretell contrary: somebody can be untruthful or ticklish toward your being. Dreaming about the worms and the snakes in full of amicable emotions augurs that you’re in unity in relation to your female character and sexual drive or interest. Notwithstanding if a dream was with bad feelings then it means that you are in difficulty toward the feminine part of yours.

Being Afraid means Temporary Misfortune  – When the dreamer is being afraid, filled with fear for something in his dream, it foretells about worries and dilemmas he is suffering from. There is a possibility of misfortune in professional and/or personal life. However, the bad luck will go away after a while, because all of the troubles will be a temporarily thing.

Others Being Afraid means Aid for Relatives – If the dreamer sees others being afraid, frightened, scared or filled with fear or apprehension, then there is a possibility that your friends, family or colleagues will have some failures and you will have to help them. It seems that those people need you to give them a hand and you should be delighted of it. Sometimes we ought to help as you never know when you will be the one who needs it either. Try to pay more attention to people that you care of and look for after them.

Context Meanings:

Afraid of Heights

Acrophobia If being afraid of heights – The dream about fear of heights can be induced by acrophobia from waking life. Very often our brain recreates such scenarios, in which we can relive true feelings without real danger to us. So dreaming about being afraid of heights can mean that you have such fear and your subconscious is trying to warn you about it. In other hand such dream can have opposite purpose – it is an aid for you to overcome your fear of heights.

Lack of confidence If fear of heights – Second interpretation of the dream about acrophobia is related to some kind of phobia in the dreamer’s life. Maybe you have fear to do something new in you life. It can be new relationship, new job or new activity. Sometimes we have dreams about being scared just because of very important events are coming in our waking life. Also, dreaming about having fear of heights can show the dreamer’s inability to make decisions and to act firmly in important situations.

Victory If being scared of heights – Old dreambooks suggest that the dreamer is going to overcome his enemies and obstacles. Fear of heights is just like indicator that your goal in the life is coming closer.  The bigger the fear is, the greater your success will be.

Afraid of Falling

Acrophobia If being afraid of falling - Firstly, the dream about the fear of falling is interpreted like the fear of heights. Both dreams can be induced by acrophobia from waking life.

Falling from bed If dreaming about falling – Real risk of falling from bed while person is sleeping is very common external stimuli. And because of this stimuli we are dreaming about the fear of falling.

Fulfillment of wish If falling or flying - It is very common to dream what we fear most or what we want to experience. In this case dream about fear of falling or flying is created because of our subconscious is trying to give us feelings about such activities.

Trauma if having fear of falling – According to scientifically proven studies of dreams, fear of falling while we are sleeping occurs because of traumatic events from our waking life. Explanations are very realistic and indicate that the dreamer had trauma from childhood like falling from parents’ arms or he had trauma during childbirth.

Dissatisfaction if afraid of falling – Ancient Egyptians explained dreams about fear in comparison to lack of confidence within the dreamer. Because of being unable to make firm decisions and not having self-confidence, the dreamer is in dissatisfaction with himself. And this conditions gives him the dream about the fear of falling.

Mistakes if crying because of falling – Modern psychology sees this dream as anxiety of mistake and the wish for fixing it. But if the dreamer was crying in the dream because of big fear, then it is indication of very big mistake, which need to be compensated in some way.

Achievements if falling without fear – If in a dream one has the fear of falling and then suddenly this fear vanished while he is in process of falling, then such dream shows big fortune for the dreamer. He will overcome obstacles and  accomplish something victorious.

Afraid of Animals

Friends or Relatives If Dogs – To be afraid of dog, shows the dreamer’s fear of the wrongdoing from or for his friend. But if the dog in the dream is afraid of you, then such dream indicates that you need to help to your friend.

Enemies or Problems If Cats – To be afraid of cat, shows dangerous enemies. If cat is afraid because of you, then it a sign that you will overcome your enemies or problems in waking life.

Worries about Productivity If Rabbit – If you have fear of bunny or you being afraid of rabbit in a dream, then it indicates your conscious fear to be to slow and be unable to act properly fast in important parts of your life. Maybe you should do less thinking and do more working.

Disintegration or phobias If Worms – In a dream to be afraid of worms, shows feeling of being unimportant or feeling of disintegration. Maybe the dreamer has bad habits or bad thoughts and that cause such feelings. Irrelevance and degradation within the dreamer also represent fear of worms in dreams. According Freud, when worm stands for penis in the dream, then being afraid of worm, shows the fear of sexual intercourse. Genophobia is name of the fear of sexual intercourse. Third meaning about the fear of worms in a dream is related to real phobia of worms – Helminthophobia, scoleciphobia or vermiphobia is the fear of worms. Especially dreaming of parasitic worms can show the dreamer fear of being infested with worms.

Troubled friends or phobia If Snakes – In a dream to be afraid of snake, or to have fear that snake is going to attack you or bite you, shows that you have fear of being betrayed by your friends. Or it can show very strong enemy that is very dangerous right now. Second interpretation of the dream about fear of snakes, is clearly an indication of real phobia in the dreamer – ophiophobia is fear of snakes.

Feminine power or phobia If Spiders – Dreaming about spiders has links to feminine power and sexuality or mother’s complex. In a dream to have fear of spider or to be afraid of being bitten by one, shows that the dreamer is afraid of some powerful woman. For a man it can be his mother or wife or his ex-partner. Maybe he has conflict with one of them. For woman it can represent her mother or conflict with other dominant female in her life. But it can be opposite and she might be that strong female in conflict with her partner. For those who have arachnophobia, dream about spiders can be just regular nightmare and representation of their fear of spiders.

Meaningless stress or phobias If Monsters – If in a dream you are afraid of indescribable monster, then it shows your inner worries about something. Other interpretation of monster in dream clearly tells that the dreamer can have some kind of phobia or energy eating fear in himself or meaningless stress in his environment.

Afraid of Events

Shocking life events If tornado, storm, lightning, blizzard, earthquake – Dreaming about being afraid of earthly disasters indicates socking life events in the dreamer ‘s waking life. But in other hand such dreams can be induced by external stimulus and show that, while you was asleep, real storm, rain or lightning was outside.

Thanatophobia, intoxication, traumas If scared of own death – Dreaming of being afraid of death or dying, shows the dreamer’s phobia of death in waking life or it indicates traumatic events from waking life. The fear of death is ancient and primal. This fear is common for most of us. Fear in the nightmare is self defense mechanism. Sometimes the dream about death is just a scenario, which must be relived in the dream, to give us insight about feelings in case of death or warn us about something. Intoxication can be external stimuli for nightmare about death. Thanatophobia, intoxication, traumatic life event or opportunity to feel fear of death – these are reasons of why such bad experience is created in our subconscious while we are asleep.

Defense if afraid of others death – If the dreamer is afraid because of some very close person is going to die in a dream, then such dream shows him how important this person is in his life and how to cope with his feelings. Very often it is nightmare and it has purpose to make the dreamer stronger person, which will overcome all obstacles in his life.

Miller’s Dreambook:

Afraid dream meanings by Gustavus Hindman Miller from dream dictionary “10,000 Dreams Interpreted” or “What’s In A Dream” or “Dreams, Their Scientific and Practical Interpretations”

To be Afraid means Misfortune – In a dream to be frightened or to feel that you are afraid to proceed with some affair, or continue a journey, symbolizes bad luck and means that you will find trouble in your household, and enterprises will be unsuccessful.

To see others Afraid means Determent – In a dream to see other people are scared, filled with fear, shows that some friend will be deterred from performing some favor for you because of his own difficulties.

Woman is Afraid of Dog means Doubt – If a young woman is dreaming that she is afraid of a dog, then such dream’s symbolic significance denotes that there might be a possibility of her doubting a true friend.

Expression of feelings In the dream the jungle is a picture which comes with mysticism from the fairy tales. Frequently, the jungle in the dream symbolizes the chaos. This may be perceived as positive or negative, everything depends on the circumstances in the dream. It presents the outbursts of basic needs and feelings that come from the unconscious.

New life or new experiences In mythology the jungle embodies a barrier through which you must go, in order to attain a new existence and to gain a new life. A magic forest is also has similar meaning. According to ancient Indian dream interpretation, the dream symbol of jungle announces that worries and disappointments are coming to you.

Psychological Meanings:

The jungle is a very ambiguous dream symbol. On the one hand it embodies the animal instincts, unreliability, the spontaneity and the egoism of the dreamer, on the other side is it also a mark for adaptability and vitality. In the dream, the jungle ground is very swampy and full of worms, snakes and insects, the dream meaning becomes a little bit more negative.

• If the dreamer has an ability to make a way wider to go through the jungle or it becomes brighter, then this indicates the effort to become more disciplined and responsible.
• If the dreamer is trapped in the jungle, this means that negative and frightening emotions come from the unconscious and he has to pure them in order to find out what cause them.
• If the dreamer understood that he has come through the jungle, this refers to the fact, that he has overcome barriers and worries in his life, which he has not noticed earlier because of fear.

Spiritual Meanings:

A jungle can symbolize spiritual chaos because of his unpredictability.

Traditional Meanings:

European (Judeo-Christian)

• Fight if be in the jungle – You are in the jungle in your dream, then this dream denotes that the life resembles a chaos and, therefore, you must fight difficult battles in order to make your life better;
• Fear to fail if enter into jungles – In the dream you enter into the jungle, then this dream signifies that started something new for you and you are afraid that you may not solve all the challenges.

Hindu (Hinduism)

• Some worries if live in the jungle – You are dreaming that you have to stay and live in the jungle, this marks that you will have bitter days and some worries in near future.

Arabian (Islamic)

• Happiness if find the way out of jungle – in the dream you have found the way out of the jungle, then this is a very positive meaning. This indicates that you have overcome all the barriers in your life and now you can enjoy your life without worries.

* Please, see meaning of tree, predator, forest.

Working on obligations, Slipperiness

Question:

What dangers my freedom of movement will bring?

General Meanings:

Male organ and sexuality In the dream the symbol of the eel stands for the male penis and sexual instincts. It may also indicate a kind of spiritualistic action of the emotions, feelings and soul life. It is able to interpret the dream more accurately, but you have to examine closer the state of the water in which the eel resides and also the attitude which you yourself have with this animal.

Sexual needs and elasticity Eel can be a sex (penis) symbol, which indicates, especially for women, sexual needs and frustrations. Dreaming of an eel means that she is obviously sexually stimulated in a positive or negative way. The avoidance of an eel indicates fear of sexual intercourse. Moreover, it can also stand for suppleness and fast. (From the view of some psychoanalysts, the eel’s elongated form reminds male genital organ. This has sexual character especially in women’s dreams) The eel includes difficulties, but they can be overcome, if you are unremitting.

Psychological Meanings:

More then snake or fish, the eel points to a slippery temptation, on the intrigues which threaten us. It is caught or is pulled ashore, difficulties can be overcome. It escapes or it slips out of our hands, then creates difficult problems at our work, or the money slips through our finger. The quality of the water is the ultimate mark for the meaning of the dream.

• Clear, flowing water and the view is nice – the spirit of your life could change. Now more (mental) agility could change your life positively, clear ideas and their implementation is now very important.
• Muddy, murky water means that you want to be “slick” and move easily through unexplained threatening situations. If fear or disgust of eel was the prevailing mood in the dream, you should check your current attitude to sexuality (this could be your partner). Perhaps you feel disgust for your partner and you don’t like when he touches you.

Traditional Meanings:

European (Judeo-Christian)

• Be sharp-sighted to avoid problems if see alive – In the dream you see alive eel, this means that you can save yourself from calamities by keeping your eyes open; also you will get a good message or a favorable outcome in some project;
• Temporary joy if see in the clear water – In the dream you see an eel in the clear water this shows especially for women a new but transitory pleasures;
• Disagreements if in dim water – When you see eels in natural (cloudy or dim) water (a lake or river), this dream brings you disputes and quarreling with your family or at work;
• Needs for sex if see lots of eels in the water – This dream is a sign of desire for sexual highlights;
• Success if catch eels – In the dream you catch the eel this signifies that your new business will develop successfully, but you will feel jealousy from others;
• Lack of success if eel slips through your fingers – This dream is a warning about failures;
• Bad news and false friends if eels squirm – When eels are squirming in your dream, this announces bad news. Also you have to beware of “slick” people around you;
• Health and news if pull out of the water – For sick people this dream brings health and for healthy people – good news and prosperity;
• Pain and troubles if caught eel – In the dream you see that somebody caught an eel, this means very painful feelings such as misfortune, damage or disadvantage, suffering and sorrow;
• Defeated enemies and marriage if dead eel – This dream is a victory over enemies. For lovers – happy ending and marry marriage;
• Defeated opponents if dissected – When you are dreaming that you see a dissected eel announces about completely defeated opponent or dangerous rival;
• Troubles if eat eel – In the dream you are eating an eel meat, announces approaching annoyance and problems. Advantage and benefit you will get only with courage and determination.

Arabian (Islamic)

• A symbol of a slick man that you have to worry about;
• Good news if see an eel – This dream says that you will receive good news;
• Disagreement if see eel in the water – In the dream you see eels in the water, this means dispute;
• Warning and success if see eels swimming in large amount – This dream is a signal that you have to beware of sudden calamity. Also promises success in business and material advantage;
• More attention to your work if catch – In the dream you catch an eel this shows that you should pay attention that you have finished business or a project till the end;
• Recovery and joy if pull out of water – In the dream you pull out it from the water for healthy people means that something good will happen, for sick – you are going feel much better and recover after illness;
• Frustration if allow to slip of the hand – When the eels slips of your hands, this denotes that an advantageous business escapes from you and hopes do not come true;
• Be careful if kill one – The dream is a warning that you have to be careful if you want to avoid troubles;
• Vexation if see dead – This dream indicates sorrow and disappointment;
• Help if deducted one – This announces that you will get some unexpected help;
• Joy if eat – When you are eating an eel this marks that you will get good news, happiness;

* Please, see meanings of fishes, snakes, worms.