For the last several years, since age 15 I'd say, almost every nightmare I've had has involved a snake. Sometimes, there are thousands of snakes (both poisonous and not) all around me, which I have to wade through. Other times, there are only one or two snakes, often times poisonous, but I cannot escape them. Sometimes I get bitten, while other times I do not. I do not have a phobia of snakes though. In fact, as a child I would catch any reptile that I was able to find, including snakes. I even had a pet ball python once, not to mention what garter snakes, bull snakes, and racers I was able to find. I've come across rattlesnakes while walking, but I've never been bitten, and if not for the dreams (and fear of being bitten) I would enjoy watching them from afar.

Examples of my dreams are:

- I am at Slide Rock in AZ, which is basically a natural water slide. I saw a rattlesnake there once, but in my dream there are thousands of snakes all around me. Cobras, anacondas, rattlers, even ball pythons. Although I want to, I can't escape them.

- I am walking in my neighborhood, when out from a storm gutter comes a tangled mass of rattlesnakes. I'm talking like the Rat King of rattlesnakes, all tangled up in each other, moving as one entity in their pursuit of me.