I have always been fond of snakes and never afraid to touch one, and due to this probably, in my dreams they almost always appear as very serene and colorful creatures.
I find it interesting how many people are afraid of them and associate them with hate, fear, unfaithfullness, etc... and i think there is a main biological-evolutionary factor in the middle, like, a natural reaction of our ancestors to a an animal that could potentially kill them in an instant, without cure, and only 2 visible punctures in the skin.
And the fact that they have long, slippery bodies with no limbs or eyelids (so direct and constant eye contact) and are cold-blooded reptiles that have a good camouflage also play an important role as a fear factor.
I once touched a viper that simply passed by my shoe while i was walking on a forest path, wanting to go to an open field right next to the forest edge. I was with my mother and when she saw the snake she started screaming a little, but instead i remained calm and actually had this impulse and... well, i actually touched it and held it's tail for a few seconds, and then let it go. The snake didn't turn to bite me, and actually remained pretty calm. I just felt it would be ok, and it was.
It had the V shape on it's neck and the coloring of a common viper (vipera berus). So snakes aren't that "evilish" and "right-away killers" as mass-media/people promote!
Either way, i dreamed some time ago about dancing and gracefully walking around a miriad of colorful snakes on a small tropical island in a rainforest, everywhere lush green vegetation. They would make circles aroudn my steps respectfuly avoiding the patch that i wanted to walk on to get on a boat.
But as i got in and swam away form that peaceful corner, i started seeing that in that beautiful rainforest there still were the tall building of my town from which people left/or passed away and was taken over by nature a long time ago, and just as i started searching for other human beings i woke up...
Quite a calm dream, but... i remember that the peaceful sentiment was starting to leave me as i started my searching and i didn't like it... what is more strange is that i never dreamed about it a second time, like it usually happens with other dreams that are interrupted and later re-appear with a different outcome but the same starting point..