Snakes and books!

I usually don't dream and even if I do I don't remember them. It's only rarely that I do remember my dreams and when I do I try to interpret them to the best of my capability. But the Internet makes things much easier. Day before yesterday in my dream I saw a snake who wasn't hostile but by the end of the dream he suffered a tragic end and was killed by someone I know. When I woke up I was disturbed and wanted to understand what it meant or signified. This is what I found at a website called experiencefestival :

1. In Indian tradition, moving snakes symbolize the stirring of kundalini.
2. In Freudian terms, snake is a phallic symbol.
3. Jung, however, interpreted snakes as symbolic of the conflict between conscious attitudes and instincts.

To see a snake or be bitten by one in your dream, signifies hidden fears and worries that are threatening you. Your dream may be alerting you to something in your waking life that you are not aware of or that has not yet surfaced. The snake may also be seen as phallic and thus symbolize dangerous and forbidden sexuality. The snake may also refer to a person around you who is callous, ruthless, and can't be trusted. As a positive symbol, snakes represent transformation, knowledge and wisdom. It is indicative of self-renewal and positive changes.

That's real complex but in a lot of ways holds true for my current situation. Well almost a lot of it does. Though deep down inside me I know that things will change for the better, and things that didn't work out was for the best ,but somehow I feel life is stuck and that I am moving round and round in circles wasting my life when I should be doing better things.

So just to keep me busy and to get all the depressing thoughts out of my mind I went out to a bookshop that had a sale on. It's hard for me to not check out a sale even if I don't need anything. So I went and got some books:

1. Tantra - Indra Sinha
2. Sivananda beginner's guide to yoga
   
3. The concise Larousse Gastronomique

But the weird part is that because of all the stress that I am in and due to the uncertainty about the future I just can't seem to get down to reading any of the great books that I bought so instead I just browsed through some magazines like Travel and Living and Digit (computer magazine), waiting for something substantial to take shape so that I can get down to enjoying the good things in life!