Remember how mostly all of us have had dreams of spooky encounters with snakes, crocodiles, lizards among other things we fear the most? Well, for this Australian woman, it was not a dream but a very real encounter with an eight-foot snake curled up on her chest while she was in deep slumber.
The deadly revelation
Rachel Bloor, a Brisbane resident, was peacefully sleeping in her bedroom when she felt a heavy weight on her chest. Half-asleep, she mistook it for her dog and reached out to pet it but instead found herself touching a smooth and slithering object.
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As she started pulling herself down into the covers, her partner switched on the bedside lamp, only to find a giant 2.5 metre python resting on her.
"He goes, 'Oh baby. Don't move. There's like a 2.5m python on you," Bloor told the BBC.
'Get the dogs away...'
While Bloor was shocked, the first thing that crossed her mind was to get her dogs away from the python. "I thought if my Dalmatian realises that there's a snake there... it's gonna be carnage," said Bloor as her husband secured the dogs outside the room.
After the dogs were gone, Bloor's husband advised her to shimmy her way out from under the covers without alarming the python.
"I was just trying to shimmy out from under the covers... in my mind, going, is this really happening? This is so bizarre," she said.
'Python squeezed through shutters'
She thinks the carpet python, a non-poisonous snake, was able to slide through the window's shutters and onto the bed. After getting rid of the snake, she started feeding it back out through the same opening from where it had come.
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The size of the snake was so large that even when it was "completely coiled up on top of me", a portion of the "snake's tail was also sticking out of the window", Bloor said.
"I grabbed him and even then he didn't seem overly freaked out. He sort of just wobbled in my hand," added Bloor.
Commonly found as a constrictor species along Australia's coastal regions, Carpet Pythons primarily feed on small birds and animals. Although Carpet Python numbers have remained stable overall, increasing numbers of individuals reported as being seen since residential development has replaced the natural habitat.
