Dream 36 and 37: Hotel Acrobatics and a Slithery Problem
Been on the road again and during a disturbed night's sleep last Friday morning I had the following two dreams.
I was in a hotel room when some people came in to perform for us. P and I were in the bed and the performers were prating about on the carpet. They were hopeless. At one point they had these short thin slats of wood and were prancing about with them, crouching over and placing them on the ground like poor walking sticks, or trying to make out they were twirling them like batons but they weren't, they were just waving them about. Completely amateurish and almost laughable if it hadn't been so pathetic. I just wanted to go to sleep. They made as if to pack up and I crossed over to the other side of the room, I think to help herd them out of the door. But once I was over there, they started to do individual acrobatics. Each of them had a delineated strip on the floor and they were doing different tumbling routines and balancing. One of them took the thin slats of wood and did a handstand, balancing then walking on the slats then doing other tricks. Another had metal triangles and was also doing upside down balancing tricks and a third was doing extreme contortion movements. They were incredible. I was stuck on the other side of the room staring back at P. We made faces at each other to say, what's going on? But it was enjoyable to watch them once we realised they actually knew what they were doing.
I woke up for a while then had the next dream.
We were in a house, around the communal kitchen dining area. A man was telling us how to catch snakes and the techniques he used. He was demonstrating that there was a right way, but most people did it the wrong way. Suddenly a snake appeared, it was a cross between and brown and a tiger snake (both pretty poisonous). He was pleased because he could demonstrate with a live sample. The snake was super fast. Even faster than in real life. It shot off almost so you couldn't see it and reappeared on the other side of the room. It was very close to me. The man went over with his special snake stick, a bit like those tongs with a long handle used for picking up rubbish. But the snake was too quick and smart and moved off again. I was moving around the room trying to keep away from it. At one point I was standing right next to it. It was by a table leg and I couldn't get around it. I was scared it was going to strike because it had been annoyed by the man and so I stood as still as I could hoping it would move off. It did eventually but then every time I thought I'd found a safe place to stand it would appear again.
Then there was a black snake with tiny little white marks on it. The marks turned out to be little diamond shapes I found out later. It too was deadly. A young man who was part of the group grabbed it, not paying any attention to how the man had been trying to teach us. The young man looked vicious and was up to no good. He looked a bit like an actor from East Enders (young ex army bloke). He wanted to be bitten by the black snake and he was. The snake unhinged it's jaws and opened them wider and wider until it sort of swallowed and bit most of the young mans arm, but across the arm, not with the arm going down into the body of the snake like you expect. After a short time the snake had put so much venom into him they had merged into one being. He came over to me and before I could get away he grabbed me. His arm was turned into the body of the snake, and now I could see the little diamonds. The arm/snake made a kind of bite on my arm. Then there was a dressing type arrangement where the wound was and the arm/snake was attached to my arm through this dressing. I was stuck to the man/snake.
The first man who had been teaching us how to catch snakes came up behind him trying to help me and to prise the snake/man off me. I looked at him briefly trying not to let on that he was there. For a split second I saw his head morph into the brown/tiger snake and back. He had let himself been taken over by the brown snake in order to defeat the black snake. But unlike the young man he was in control of his snake self and would be able to take an antidote/anti venom and turn himself back. The young man/black snake was going to die but I needed to be prised free first. It was quite scary, but I knew I'd be all right in the end. Very graphic images, probably doesn't come across as well in the relating...