I have heard of anthropomorphism, but I don't believe I'm placing human characteristics on an animal or anything else. From how I see it, and now that I've had a bit of rest... There has to be more than them eating, sleeping, pooping and breeding going on in their heads. If they had just the basic feelings in their mind the way most people seem to think, they technically wouldn't come to trust you. To them, you're a scary huge monster. The scary monster just happens to make food and water appear. The way my friends put it, my snakes wouldn't be able to connect my giving them food, to me being trust-able. Their brain is too simple for that. In other words, they think that snakes can not trust one of them even said that they act tame out of fear that I'll hurt them. I can't see my snakes coming, willingly, to my hand and seeming to seek out the attention they want... Out of fear. That doesn't make any sense at all. Sure, when they are hungry they come to my hand in what seems like hopes to find food appearing there, but when Mama is full, or one of the babies is full, they come up to me and rest their heads on my hands. Most people wold say its for warmth, just because they're cold. I keep my snakes warm, it's constantly around 70-80 degrees during the day and 60-65 during the night.

Part of me always wants to believe that they do "love" and that they "love" me. and part of me does believe their mind is simple, but at the same time I think people don't give snakes enough credit for their intelligence. Much like other animals. Some people think "oh, it's just a stupid animal" but you can see how intelligent animals are when you observe them often. I observe my snakes all the time, it's not just eating and sleeping going on. If it was, would every snake have the personalities that they have? I don't think so.
Maybe it's the part of me that never matured into an adult, much of my brain seems to have been stuck in the "child" stage where I'd believe in things like dragons and unicorns.
When Mama is looking at me while I'm stroking her head or rubbing her neck, I can just see that there's more going on than "where's the food, must have food"

When I'm upset, it's like my dog and my macaw sense that. My dog will sit with me, lick my arm and try to cuddle up to me. Willy, who is usually a very pissy bird and bites all the time, will let me hold him, he tries talking and doing his affectionate clicking sounds and he grooms me. Like them, Mama seems to at least sense that something isn't right. She acts differently when I'm not happy and when I am happy. I could be over examining it or imagining things, but I have written down in a notebook how I was feeling and how my snakes and my dog and macaw reacted to the different feelings. It doesn't seem like a coincidence to me. Though, I understand that it could just be a huge coincidence, it just doesn't seem likely in my mind.