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War of the Serpents

Morning of September 11, 1969. Thursday.

This was one of my favorite childhood dreams, oddly enough. As with the “Patches” dream, it seemed to have a lot of “clues” in some ways at several different levels, though this entry is only a summary of the primary scenes.

My dream starts with a voice-over (fairly rare) which says: “New York Harbor 1969. The city is a mess”.

I am flying over Manhattan for much of the first part of my dream.

I am very lucidly aware of saxophone and xylophone music that is a sort of plain series of incrementing staccato (short) notes. The image is fairly true to my dream’s “music”. There is also a version where the third set of eighth notes in each motif is removed, giving a sense of anticipation. It is quite a simple pattern (see image below).

The music becomes a bit more intense with a less audible orchestral sound in the background, almost as if the volume is turned down and up again (this effect has happened in other dreams, especially when the level of vividness or lucidity changes). I watch a giant snake move through the water. The snake is so large that it knocks aside tugboats and such. However, there is also a brief awareness that the snake is normal-sized and the debris is more like small pieces of wood bark, leaves, and twigs and such as I watch the scene much closer to the water’s surface. At this point I also get the odd but distinct impression that I am standing or hovering in my “orb” form to the left of the doorway in my father’s room at the same time I am dreaming this. This bilocated impression (typical of a lot of my childhood dreams) does not continue, though. Helicopters fly over the Statue of Liberty and there is more news about the “attack” on Manhattan and it seems like giant “alien” snakes came from a crashed flying saucer (as if the implied human-like aliens, possibly from two different planets lost control). There are two types of giant snakes which seem like “enemies” of each other. One type seems friendlier to humans, it seems. I watch a lot of the monster-movie-like battle and my dream shifts to my home in Cubitis.

I am then suddenly chasing a “baby giant snake” (which is about five feet high) in a southerly direction, from the end of our driveway and near the highway (Highway Seventeen), on the west side of the large culvert. The snake is that familiar recurring Pepto Bismol pink that was fairly common in my dreams around this time period. It is crawling upright like a standing letter “S” and moving much like a swan. I am chasing it with no fear on my part, just to make it leave the area so that bigger snakes do not come by (such as its mother). Suddenly though, when I get past the neighbor’s house a short distance, the snake looks “confused” (I get the impression of an actual question mark floating in the air over its head very briefly) and turns around to start chasing me. I raise my arms up and out as I am running almost like the scene is meant to be comedic and that I am aware it is.

This continues for a very short time when suddenly, the snake and I are very good friends (we are then at the end of the driveway from where I first found myself chasing it). I am actually then holding the large snake in my arms like a baby (part of it wrapping around me seemingly to “protect” me somehow) - which is eventually even wearing an old-fashioned baby bonnet (possibly an association with “rattlesnake” vs. baby rattle). One way to look at this was the idea of “taming a stomach ache” - I suppose because it was related to the Pepto Bismol color, although this color has appeared with various other representations that did not seem related to the human intestine as snakes sometimes do (because of their obvious visual similarity).

I am aware that the “war” will continue for some time, possibly to the point where a lot more regions will be damaged. My parents do not appear at any point, and in fact, I do not interact with anyone I know in real life. Later, I do seem to be “friends” with a few giant black snakes, this probably being related to the fact that black snakes were considered “good” where I lived from their reputation of supposedly chasing off rattlesnakes - which may be part of the background story of my dream.

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