Snake shedding skin

A snake shedding skin in a dream is the dream's image of a self left behind intact in one piece. The snake does not patch; it leaves the whole old skin and walks out of it. The dream brings the image when something in your life — an old identity, a former relationship, a finished phase of work — is at the stage of being left whole as evidence of who you used to be. A shed skin clean on the ground is the dream affirming that the departure was complete. A shed skin still partly attached, with the snake dragging it, is the dream noting that the leaving has been attempted and the old self is still hanging off, slowing the new movement.