Being one of the oldest dream symbols ever recorded, snakes hold a very significant meaning depending on the context of your dream. Depending on your culture or parts of our collective unconscious, a snake/serpent as a symbol can transform to one extreme to another. For the most part in many cultures a snake can be a very powerful meaning that is connected to our life force and primal energy. In other cultures dream analysis suggests it’s linked to our innate fears, or even according to Freud, a phallic symbol. In order to understand what is the meaning of a snake dream we have to go back to ancient times for hints.