Forget snakes on planes. This mother found a snake in her son's bed, eating his face!

Warning this post contains images that might make you never, even sleep again. 

Does it get any scarier than this?

Take another look..

And another…

Now imagine finding one in your six-year-old’s bed, a three-metre python who had entered your home via some teeny-tiny snake hole you might never find, slithered into your son’s room, crawled into his sheets and in the middle of the night began EATING HIS FACE.

Would you ever, ever sleep again?

Well that’s exactly what a mother from the North Coast of NSW was confronted with just a few days ago.

A three-metre python in all its slithery, snaky, slidey glory.

Tamara Thurgood, a young mother of five from Eungai Rail in northern NSW says she was asleep when her six-year-old son began screaming in the top bunk of his bedroom.

She said on Facebook when she posted a public image of the encounter, that she woke up around 11.30pm on Thursday to her son Tyler’s “painful scream”.

“I jumped out of bed and went to Tyler to find a big effing snake wrapped around the bed head.

“I grabbed his arm to pull him off the bed but he was stuck. So I rolled him and then pulled.”

Ms Thurgood said the snake was wrapped around her son’s belly.

“I tried to pull Tyler from the bed but he didn’t come with me … I had to roll him, then pull,” she told Guardian News.

“I saw his face and the blood and his eyes were still closed so I don’t think he was fully awake.

“I tried to check him over but he wouldn’t let me touch him anywhere.”

The snake continued to bite Tyler on the hand before lunging at his face, biting it a number of times.

After calling her cousins to “dealt with the snake” she rushed her son to hospital.

She says that the two men were scared but effectively sorted out the snake.

“Id say both boys were scared but stayed there to make sure they got the bastard that attacked my son.”

Ms Thurgood’s housemate, Hollie van Es wrote that when Tamara saw the snake her maternal instinct kicked in ” Mothers instincts are very crazy…. She was one crazy mumma bear.. It scared the hell out of them all… The 4 kids will never be the same..”

Snake expert Steve McEwan told Guardian News that snakes were opportunistic feeders.

“I assume that the lights were off and the child was asleep, and being a python he has detected some warmth and slight movement, “he said.

“They have heat sensors, and they don’t think about the size of their prey. If it’s hungry it will bite anything, and if it can’t eat it, it can’t eat it.

“But I don’t believe the snake was going to feast on the child … it’s all instinct, not thought processes.”

Bryan Robinson, a wildlife management specialist for Queensland Fauna Consultancy, told the BBC that the snake would not have being trying to eat Tyler’s face.

“Human beings do not fit into the prey selection of any Australian snakes.”

Ms Thurgood has asked that now she has shared her story she be left alone.

“Id like to move on and try to forget about the ordeal, please can you all leave us be so my kids and i can settle down back into normal life, it was terrifying enough without being reminded everyday and being asked to explain what happened” she wrote

Fair enough. Who would want to think about that monster slithering through the sheets of a bed in a suburban home looking for faces to eat?

Will any of us ever sleep again?