Screaming or howling

In this segment of the dream, I have just managed to pry a bat off my shoulderblade. (Note: I have chronic pain in my shoulderblade and last night, for the first time, I tried an Icy Hot patch on the area. It seemed to be making my bed cold and wet whenever I woke up during the night, so I was worried about it.) I have also seen a mini-bat, a sort of cross between a black bat and a dragonfly, slip under the door to try to get to me. Then I feel sharp pains in my left shoulder. (Note: The Icy Hot Patch is on my right.) It feels like something is biting me. When I turn around, I see that there is a snake looking up at me from the floor. She is a pale-orangey kind of colour, the colour of a cake baked with orange zest. (Note: I would baked madeleines the other day and part of the recipe called for orange zest, and I would been unsure whether that meant all of the orange peel or just the inner flesh under the peel, so that had worried me.) The snake is looking intently at me as if she is on a mission. I try to shoo her away. I try to run away. She keeps getting to me and rhythmically striking at me - in the same spot. She finally says to me, "Look, I am trying to help you. I need to give you the scars for the electrolysis." I think about it for a moment, but I do not know what she means. I am not even planning to get electrolysis done. So I continue to run away. She always catches up with me. When I get out of the house - which looks a lot like my grandmother's house from when I was a kid - I am finally rid of her. I go around to the back to get into the kitchen, which I do from an upper window. The people in the cast of my film are there, cooking on the stove, and <PERSON> from the Road to Avonlea series is there baking. Aunt <PERSON> starts to scream bloody murder when she sees me come in. The ceiling corners above me are dirty and covered with strands of cobwebs.