The Serpent Scenario

And we are back again with another dream. This is unlike any other as in this one my Mom was the one in danger. Although this one starts with a happy note there is nothing happy about the dream after a point of time. 

We were attending a party on our topmost floor of the building and it appeared as if a lot of people were invited. The party seemed to be coming to an end and everyone was dispersing merrily. We were among the last people to leave the soirée. Our floor was just below this one and we decided to take the elevator. There was an eerie silence in the building, not like that of an after party. It was when we had reached our floor, that I realized what was causing the tranquility. On the ground ahead lay numerous slithering creatures, covering the entire lobby, even the staircase. Hardly a fraction of the floor was visible. Those slimy creatures were nothing but huge serpents gathered on the floor, ready to gulp down anyone who came in its way. Which they had already, as the ground was blood-red. I hadn't realized this but the door of the elevator was open. The elevator in my dream was not like the recent ones. It had manually-opened doors like the vintage Otis scissor gates. So we were not really ‘protected’ as such. This was life threatening in a situation especially like this, for one of the snakes in particular had its eyes fixed upon us. He sprang in action as soon as he saw me closing the door. With its huge fangs now stuck on the elevator door I could definitely imagine that he would have swallowed us whole at once, given the chance. The damage had been done as it spit poison and a part of the fatal venom came in touch with my Mom's arm. The area immediately  became sore and looked as if it were burned. At that moment only one thing was important, helping Mom out of this building as soon as possible. Without any further thought I shut the inner door of the lift and pressed the button to the ground floor. Leaving the snake stuck we were moving down with all the speed the lift could run with but still each passing second seemed like an eternity. Going down we could see snakes on all the other floors as well. I couldn't imagine anyone else, inside, being alive right now. But for me, at that moment, it didn't matter. The only thing I was concerned about was to get Mom to safety. We were almost there. We had reached the ground floor and I was helping Mom run as fast as possible. Weirdly there weren't any snakes ahead of us. Suddenly everything became hazy again, the feeling when you know that end is near. We had just reached the gate when the nightmare finally ended, leaving me perplexed and anguished.

This dream was again one of those which make your morning go bad. Other than making me a victim of ophiophobia (fear of snakes) it also made me fear going alone to my terrace.

"Bad dreams are ghosts of our fears and worries,

haunting us while we sleep..."

~Keep Dreaming, Keep Blogging :)

If you are scared of snakes, don't watch this. :|
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/news/140626-narcisse-snake-dens-vin