If you succeed in killing it, you will finally overcome obstacles.
To see a dead reptile come to life, denotes that disputes and disagreements, which were thought to be settled, will be renewed and pushed with bitter animosity.
To handle them without harm to yourself, foretells that you will be oppressed by the ill humor and bitterness of friends, but you will succeed in restoring pleasant relations.
For a young woman to see various kinds of reptiles, she will have many conflicting troubles. Her lover will develop fancies for others.
If she is bitten by any of them, she will be superseded by a rival. [1]
To dream you are safely handling a reptile symbolizes your permissiveness in the face of sarcasm and demeaning jokes from your friends. It further suggests that this bitter breakdown will lead to subsequent renewal of friendship.
To dream that you are bitten by a reptile signifies the emotional depression and anguish from losing your beloved to a rival.
To dream that a dead reptile comes back to life symbolizes an old problem whose resolution turned out to be temporary, but later became the solution. [2]
If a reptile features in your dreams, you are connecting to this fundamental element of life. There may be additional meaning associated with the specific animal that is present, but certainly the universal meaning of basic instincts is at play when a reptile appears in a dream. [3]
2. A feeling that someone near does not have good intentions.
3. Subconscious hopes and fears, a vision for a better life. [4]