Seeing snakes when you close your eyes can range from harmless visual phenomena like phosphenes (light/color flashes from eye activity) or floaters, to signs of more significant issues like anxiety, medication side effects, or even delirium (especially alcohol withdrawal), which often involves seeing insects/snakes. If it's just fleeting colors/shapes, it's likely normal; but persistent, vivid, or disturbing snake hallucinations warrant a doctor's assessment to rule out underlying medical or psychiatric conditions.
SNAKES AND DELIRIUM
Delirium is a condition characterized by clouding of consciousness and perceptual disturbances. Delirium Tremens (DTs) is a similar condition occurring due to alcohol withdrawal syndrome. Visual hallucination of seeing snakes and insects is one of the most common forms of hallucination.
many people get floaters in their eyes that can appear snake like. Other times people have their eyes play tricks on them like that if they are very tired.
Closed-eye imagery is usually a normal function of the nervous system (phosphenes, hypnagogia, memory/imagination) and not evidence of past lives. If images are persistent, worsening, accompanied by neurological signs, or causing significant distress, seek medical or mental-health evaluation.
Seeing a snake, whether in real life, a dream, or through meditation, can be a significant spiritual moment. Snakes often symbolise transformation, rebirth, and healing. In many cultures, they represent the shedding of old ways and the beginning of something new, much like how a snake sheds its skin.
The Snake represents wisdom, knowledge, intelligence, intuition and creativity. Snakes are also associated with good luck, prosperity, fertility and longevity.
Dreaming about snakes often symbolizes personal transformation, spiritual awakening, and the process of shedding old habits or beliefs. Many spiritual traditions regard the snake as a messenger, guiding the dreamer toward greater self-awareness and enlightenment.
Early signs of an eye stroke (retinal artery occlusion or ischemic optic neuropathy) typically involve sudden, painless vision loss or changes, most often in only one eye, including blurred vision, blind spots, floaters, or a dark shadow covering part of your sight. It often happens upon waking and is a medical emergency requiring immediate attention to potentially save sight and identify a risk for a full stroke.
Level 3: Patterns, motion, and color
When lying down at night and closing the eyes, right before sleep or just before waking up, the complex motion of these patterns can become directly visible without any great effort thanks to hypnagogic hallucination. The patterns themselves might resemble fractals.
Aslaug had prophesied that he would be born with the image of the serpent-dragon Fafnir in his eye, the same one her father Sigurd killed. When he was born so, Aslaug named him "Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye" after her father and the mark in his eye.
If you stand completely still in-front of a snake it cant tell the difference between you and a tree or a rock. Snakes do not have eyelids. They do have an eye 'spectacle' which protect their eye. This 'spectacle' comes away when a snake sheds it's skin.
Charles Bonnet Syndrome (visual release hallucinations) is when you see images or scenes that aren't really there. Experts think it happens when your brain fills in gaps after something makes you lose some of your vision. There's no cure, but your healthcare providers can help you adjust.
A snake in a dream biblically often embodies two core symbolic arcs: deception and temptation, and healing and transformation. The serpent's role in Genesis links it with cunning and the introduction of sin, while the bronze serpent in Numbers models healing when the people respond in faith.
Snakes and Sight - African Snakebite Institute. Snakes have good vision, but it is used mainly for detecting movement. Hence, the old but true saying that if you encounter a snake the best thing to do is to stand perfectly still.
Any commercially available cinnamon oil, clove oil or eugenol with 95 percent or greater purity are acceptable for use in brown treesnake repellent mixtures. Spray the mixture directly on the snake, aiming for its head. Direct contact with the snake will trigger escape behavior.
Other signs and symptoms may include:
The 5 key warning signs of a stroke, often remembered with the FAST acronym, are sudden Face drooping, Arm weakness, Speech difficulty, and the crucial Time to call 911; other signs include sudden trouble seeing, walking, dizziness, or a severe headache, requiring immediate emergency care.
Sudden painless loss of vision may occasionally be caused by an 'eye stroke'. These typically occur when a small clot (an embolism) blocks an artery supplying the retina (the nerve tissue that lines the back of the eye).
Charles Bonnet syndrome is a condition where you see things that are not real (hallucinations). It can happen if you've lost a lot of your sight. It's not caused by a mental health problem or dementia.
Intense anxiety can distort an individual's perception of reality, resulting in psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions. These episodes are usually temporary and managed effectively with proper treatment.
Hypnagogic hallucinations are brief hallucinations that take place as you're falling asleep. They're common and usually nothing to worry about. They're usually visual in nature, such as images of patterns, shapes or flashing lights.
No, snakes do not recognize human faces. Instead, they rely on scent, heat, and movement to identify familiar handlers or situations rather than facial features.
The frequency of the human voice is about 100–250Hz and the study included sounds at these frequencies and at the amplitude of a loud voice. The snakes responded to these sounds – many quite significantly – so it's safe to say they can hear people speaking loudly.
Fertility and rebirth
Historically, serpents and snakes represent fertility, health, or a creative life force. As snakes shed their skin through sloughing, they serve as symbols of rebirth, transformation, immortality, and healing.