Alligator
The alligator is the half-hidden danger — still on the surface, formidable beneath. In dreams it is largely a creature of caution, unfavourable unless mastered. It often points to a lurking threat we sense but cannot yet see whole. The dream tends to ask what waits below the waterline, and whether we are ready to face it.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for alligator, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To dream of an alligator, unless you kill it, is unfavorable to all persons connected with the dream. It is a dream of caution.