Jen

I just had the oddest dream while taking a nap. I have tried looking up the various symbols in dream dictionaries, but nothing really relates completely and some things I just can't find.

Here we go:

The dream wasn't a very long one, but what I can remember is that it all took place in 'my' apartment. This apartment had a similar layout as mine now, except there was a bathroom on the edge of the living room and there was a balcony. The apartment was not decorated to my taste at all and a lot of the furniture was old, mismatched and second-hand.

There were two animals in my dream: a white poodle and a very dark green snake. The poodle was in the beginning of the dream and I never paid much attention to the poodle in the dream until the end. So, there is this snake and it's obviously a pet. I have a play pen in the kitchen area of the apartment and I place it in there while I go to do something in my bedroom. I hear bouncing (much like a someone jumping on a small trampoline with squeaky springs), I come out to the kitchen and see the snake 'bouncing' to get out of the play pen. I am just amazed, because I have never seen a snake move like that before. The snake eventually gets out of the play pen and starts moving about the house. It goes into the hallway where I catch it and then I place it in a very large dog kennel.

I back up towards the bathroom and see the snake struggling to get out of the kennel through the wire door. The holes in the wire do not seem large enough to allow the snake to get through it, but after some serious struggling (with the same energy used to bounce out of the play pen) the snake gets through and lunges at me as I close the bathroom door. I am facing the snake the whole time.

After I leave the bathroom I start running through the living room, not sure whether I am trying to catch the snake again or get away from it (there was not a point in the dream where I was actually scared of it) and I see animal feces everywhere. It's on the furniture, smeared into the carpet. I step on it and am disgusted, angry and hurt because it is so hard. I am assuming this is from the dog, but the dog hasn't been in the above mentioned parts of the dream, nor do I remember much else of it. I remember thinking, "did the snake eat the dog?"

Then I woke up.

I understand the dog and it's meaning in my dream, but not its excrement. The meaning of the snake - a python, almost six feet long with about a four inch or so circumference, and a very dark green color. Menacing, but not threatening. I did not feel any real fear during the dream.

Any light on this from someone more experience than me would be great!