Alligator or Crocodile

To see a wild alligator or a crocodile in your dream, foretells a new beginning or changes in your waking life, this dream can also indicate danger in some way. If you do not kill the alligator then this dream may not be favorable, this is a dream of caution.

The alligator or crocodile within your dream can also highlight your intuition, your spiritual insights and spiritual steps that you need to take in the forthcoming future. As mentioned before, because of its association with religion the alligator can mean that negative aspects signify a danger which will shortly come into your life.

No one can quite understand the connections between dreams and danger, so I will try to explain this in the interpretation of the bullet points below. According to 1930s dream dictionaries a dream of seeing an alligator or crocodile general reflects how you feel inside about others. Generally the alligator or crocodile is consistently related to the soul. Spiritually the dream represents a coming together of power and intelligence.

Other dream interpretations (post 1920s ) within old dream dictionaries include the meaning as follows:

• If the attention in your dream is trying to kill or harm the alligator in a dream then you are expected to consider that this is associated with your intelligence.
• To dream of shooting an alligator indicates the need to take Intellectual sheets. We may be pushing ourselves to heart.
• Dreaming of swimming with an alligator connects us with our need for basic emotional or physical material needs.
• To be swimming with more than one alligator or crocodile generally signifies that one may be shafted by hope and faith.
• As with many other interpretations of reptiles this dream represents the ultimate feminine wisdom and indistinctly feelings as well as fertility.
• The alligator can also signify the symbol of the great mother. Have you had confusion in a male or female relationship?
• To kill the alligator in your dream means that you hold angry feelings inside of you.
• If the alligator was deformed than this indicates your performance need to develop a masculine traits – you need good judgment how move forward in a work situation. Thinking and planning is important in your life and you may soon become obsessed with seeking answers to difficult questions in order to understand a greater awareness and the ease of life.
• Dreams of seeing an alligator in a zoo (or in captivity) means that you have access to the particular characteristics which make you unique. It is important to take' energy released over the next two months and use this to your advantage.
• There may be some conflict between the masculine attributes and the female ones, but is important to maintain some kind of balance between the two. Principally the dream is often connected to our feelings inside. As time passes we recognize familiar aspects of what this means and it is important to develop your personality coupled with strong sense of family values.

Independence is important to you and this dream shows that it is time to claim this back. If you visit a jungle then this dream signifies that there is a new beginning on the horizon. If you dream that the alligator was tamed then it shows that you have acquired influence and lots of power.

The bible says that an alligator is king over the children of pride, if you decide not to attack the animal then seeing this creature is associated with the capability to survive in difficult situations. In a negative way, the crocodile demonstrates wasted potential. Think of them as a human which is associated with triggering control issues. The crocodile or alligator is true to its nature and there's an element of trying to work towards goals. If the crocodile is on a lake and the dream seems beautiful, this means that you will have love in your life. You may need to understand social instincts in order to secure that your desire. The main negative potential is associated with any type of attack.

To be bitten by this animal denotes that you need to make sure that you stop worrying as things will sort it out. Someone that is in your circle of friends or family is not acting in a correct manner. You will recognise that the person is an enemy and he/or she seeks to trick you into thinking that you are a friend.

To have this dream also means that this releases the power in us called Jungian, an archetype known as the 'Shadow.' This is a dark power is associated with enemies and conspiracies. This shadow casts himself or herself as the heroic victim (martyr) of dark and stupendous forces. By any and all means. The shadow inside us is dangerous. Have you been having bad thoughts?  Are you struggling to come to terms with a situation?

Finally, it is important to consider the work of Freud in regards to this dream interpretation as this dream signifies a warning. Freud wrote a book called "truth is what works" which looked at the views on the psychology of dreams. The facts are obvious to the world by his interpretation of dreams.

First of all, Freud pointed out a constant connection between some part of every dream and some detail of the dreamer's life during the previous waking state. This positively establishes a relation between sleeping states and waking states and disposes of the widely prevalent view that dreams are purely nonsensical phenomena coming from nowhere and leading nowhere. In regards to this dream, it signifies that you have been having some worrying times recently.

Many of our dream visions are symbolical, which causes us to consider them as absurd and unintelligible; the universality of those symbols, however, makes them very transparent to the trained observer. It is important to also look up the other parts of your dream. What happened? Do not worry too much about the meaning of this dream; you just need to be aware of hidden dangers.