Snake pit dream

Date of dream: Some time around 1986.

The dream took place in a valley surrounded by fire. In the bottom of the pit a swarm of snakes were swimming around. I stood on the cliffside with my family. Suddenly my father pushed me into the pit of swarming snakes. I could not swim and crawled around there for a while. Turning my face up against them and they were laughing. My mother, my two sister stood there laughing at me. I could not get up from this pit and sunk into the whispering snakes. I woke up eventually totally horrified. The dream has never reoccured.

Interpretation of dream: There is certainly guilt in this dream. I must have done something wrong. What is a young boy doing in damnation? Could it be I dreamed my father was the devil? And that my family was after me? Did I blame myself for innocence? A connection between innocence and guilt. At this early age I learned religion is to be cherished and if not also feared so that we learn to live together. Was it a premonition?