Had dreams about turtles. Dear Higher Self, what is the significance of these dream? They were trying to bite me!
Turtle energy is deeply connected with ancient Earth energies and is “biting” to get your attention. Consider what Turtle energy represents: ancient and long-lived, Turtle represents wisdom of ancient origin. The hard shell of Turtle houses the Earth energies, the powers that are timeless and steady. Turtle is expert in stillness and breathlessness. It goes at its own pace.
Turtle wants you to know that it is ok to slow down, to take time to meditate, to set aside for awhile the work you do in the world. Like Turtle, you go at your own pace. Turtle asks you to be patient. It “bites” you so that you might awaken to your own nature. Slow down and listen to the breath of Turtle. It is gentle and deep. Follow Turtle to its home in Mother Earth.
When Turtle energy comes to you in dreams, it does so to remind you to seek the depths of the creative ocean. You are not meant to remain on the surface, getting battered by waves of worry and grappling endlessly with the drama of survival. You have gifts beneath the hard shell of protection that encases your heart. Release your heart by listening to the ocean that Turtle swims in. Listen and receive…
You have been like Turtle that has been on its back, unable to free yourself from a self-created prison of limiting beliefs and narrow assumptions about unfortunate “circumstances.” And you even feared the tidal waves fast approaching that you believed would dash you on the hard rocks of a world that seems so harsh…and yet the waves come as a way to free you from the stranglehold of thoughts, to awaken you to the depths of the Creative Ocean where you belong…
The Ocean is rising not to destroy, but to remind…
I had a dream about many snapping turtles in a lake that i went in and got swamped by hundreds of them. Thet were all attacking me and biting me as i tried to fight them off.
I have been researching it for the past 2 days and finally found my answer!
Thank you
Thanks Kat,
Would love to hear your insights regarding the dream you had.
Turtle is a major totem for me and has had much significance in my life, a reminder to honor the creatures and Life Energies of the Earth Mother. This being said, you might imagine my sadness and concern when, within the last year (2008), I came across three dead turtles (on separate occasions). As mentioned in other posts, whenever something like this happens, I take the time to look within and offer prayers and to receive messages that may be there for me. In all three instances (although outside in nature), it occurred to me that the turtles died because of humankind’s neglect and disrespect for the Earth. The turtles, representative of the very Life that nurtures and sustains us were found on their backs, symbolizing the Earth that is slowly being destroyed by her children’s ignorance and shortsightedness. And so it does not come as a surprise to see the turmoil and violent earth changes that the world is experiencing. I do, however, also believe that old systems are dying, that the “hard shell” of selfishness and greed are being shaken and thrown onto the dung heap of what needs to be released. In a sense, Turtle Medicine comes to tell us that the time of renewal comes with great change and purging!
I am devastated! I drove in to my home this morning after a day away, and parked my van, running over a beautiful 5″ box turtle in my drive way. I feel so terrible, as I am a HUGE nature conservationist, with a deep love of these sweet, slow, important creatures.
I wonder how does this turtle energy now in my possession translate to me and my life, and I’m praying to the spirits that I use this energy well.
Growing up on the coast, and knowing all creatures have deep connections to all other creatures, I am saddened to have been so short sighted as to not watching my path for peaceful slow walkers, be-ers.
I will slow down, watch and listen.
c
I’m so sorry to hear, Caroline, of the difficult experience you just went through! Can’t imagine how that must have been for you!
Thanks however, for your sharing and for the caring you have for all of Earth’s creatures. I would be very interested to hear how turtle energy expresses to you in the days and weeks ahead!
Hello!
I had a dream last night. I am very interested about it’s meaning, even more as the dream came on the night, when I decided to listen again to my dreams.
I was preparing, cleaning something in the kitchen, when I notice a big aquarium with a turtle inside. In the next moment I realize that I am overheating the water where the turtle is. I put her out or it jumps out and starts hunting me (it’s not slow at all!). At first she doesn’t succeed. The next time, she goes searching for me, she bites me in my left hand. I am trying to take her off me, grabbing her by it’s mouth. I succeed. But she start hunting me again, and bites me again in my hand. These time I do not struggle and I let her. The next memory is that I am at peace, turtle is in the aquarium and I am putting her a fresh, clean water.
I am very happy to find your blog, while searching for answers. If you have some insides, opinions I would really appreciated.
Thank you and I wish you all the Love and Light.
Anja
Thank you Anja, for sharing your powerful dream! It is fraught with symbolism: water (emotions, unconscious, ? etc.), turtle (Mother Earth?), left hand (non-dominant, intuitive side?) Perhaps one interpretation might be that the Earth Mother (as represented by the turtle, is “biting” to activate your intuitive Higher Self. She arises from the deep unconscious (water) to remind you of the vast powers that are yours to manifest and to be “at peace” with.
Thank you so much. I had a nother one, but these time it was not turtle hunting me but a small snake. She bite me 4 times in my left leg. Suddenly she disappeared, but from my mouth young snakes started to come out.
Well thank you, I am really happy that you replayed!
Wow! This time a snake biting you four times on your left leg. I’d be interested to hear your own interpretation of this dream (as it is your dream and your unconscious speaking to you). In some traditions, the number 4 represents completion and wholeness. That young snakes started coming out of your mouth in the dream seems quite significant: beginning to manifest and speak your intuitive truth? The snake (or serpent) also represents the coiled energy at the base of the spine, sometimes known as Kundalini. When this energy gets activated and rises up the spine, it blasts away at any stuck energies that may reside in the body, increasing its resonant frequency. Check out my post on Kundalini Awakening.
This is by far the most amazing interpretation I have ever read. So dead-on, it floored me. Thank you for your deep and healing insights.
Thank you Julia, I appreciate your kind thoughts! When I think and feel “turtle energy,” I switch back and forth between sadness and joy, sorrow and elation. To me, Turtle represents all that is ancient, like the old growth redwoods that used to proliferate in the Western Coastal States. They also represent the indigenous peoples across the globe. Both have been decimated due much to human ignorance… and we have lost much of the wisdom teachings of the trees and native peoples– a great loss!
Turtle also brings great joy because its primal energy is patient and enduring. It swims powerfully through the seas of Mother Earth, calling us back to Oneness, showing us that Beauty and Love can never be lost forever.
I dreamt about multiple baby turtles. They were different kinds… box, smooth carapace, I was helping someone (a child) I think try and match them and gather them. We kept having to return to the water where we were finding them to get more. It wasn’t frustrating or fun, just continual and quite vivid. I can still see the stream which was at the bottom of a cliff….
Any thoughts? Thank you!
Beautiful dream Kari! Baby turtles and a child… “return to the water…” For me the dream seems to represent a “return” to primal (turtle) energy, connecting with the creative (child) flow (stream) of what is wanting to be expressed in life (as represented by the cliff). So much is wanting to be born through you Kari! That “it wasn’t frustrating or fun” is an aspect of Spirit/Nature that seems to have a detached consciousness in the sense that it does not make value judgments of right, wrong, pleasure, pain, etc. It seems to just Be, the Divine Calm Observer. Thanks for sharing!
Hi,
Just recently, maybe a week, I had this dream of two turtles. It is not clear. My mind seem to visual it as a turtle. I can’t really remember. Then suddenly one of the turtle turn to an iPAD or there was an iPAD. Can’t remember it now. I know it sounds weird. Anyway, I don’t bother on the iPAD thing. Perhaps I’ve been dreaming to have one. So few days later I bought a pair of turtles. I’m not sure whether this is right. I just feel like I want to have it. Any thoughts?
Im also glad to have found this site. I have the past two nights had a dream of being back in the home I grew up in, which I haven’t been in in at least 4 years. There is this large green snapping turtle, a big one you’d expect to find crawling across an African landscape covered in dust. Only this one isn’t dusty but emerald green. It sees me and I underestimate it, thinking I can outrun it but it is so fast! It pursues me angrily and gets underneath my stride and leaps up and snaps at my right upper thigh, clinging on with it’s strong beak. I feel no pain, but I have to pry open it’s strong beak to get it to release my thigh. Then I get it off me and notice a sheet of blood running down my leg. It continues to pursue me at least 3-4 times before I wake up, catching me off guard at different places in this house. It’s horrifying but I’m not in pain. Any insight? Thank you in advance.
Thank you Zurikiss for sharing. Your dream is fascinating, especially since my wife and I received just two weeks ago a gift from a child of a beautiful green porcelain turtle (from Hawaii)! For me the turtle represents a return to our origins (home) and reconnection with primal energies. I see the turtle as swimming through the cosmos. I also think it is significant that your dream turtle was “emerald green,” the color of healing. Perhaps your dream is calling you back to your home in Spirit, even “biting” to get your attention. That it bit your upper right thigh might be your unconscious, intuitive Self “biting” the intellectual, linear/logical ego self as represented by the thigh (what we stand upon the earth with). At any rate, the unconscious seems to be very much wanting your attention! I think it’ll be interesting to see what shows up in your life! Thanks again!