Primeval fear.

Question:

What are the basic fears I have?

General Meanings:

Threatening feelings Alligator (crocodile) is often experienced as threatening creature because he embodies superseded needs, experiences, fears, feelings and the other unconscious contents. However, at the same time he also stands for wisdom and experience of the unconscious and may request to use it more.

Psychological Meanings:

Warning about enemies In the dream the alligator is understood as a warning against enemies – the one for life – here figuratively means almost always about business. In the dream the alligator or the crocodile can be also viewed as an expression of the fear of the unconscious. The alligator usually and mostly lies close to the shore and waits for victims to attack them without warning.

Conscience and Hidden Inner feelings or fear Many people have fear that the forces from the unconscious can suddenly attack (eat) and bring them into serious emotional crises. Therefore, an alligator in the dream is understood as an invitation to fight, participate more actively with what is hidden in the subconscious and what it displaces what we do not want to know.

Traditional Meanings:

European (Judeo-Christian)

• Warning if see – In your dream you see an alligator it doesn’t matter the place then it is a warning. Be careful, the deceitful enemies are nearby and want to harm you;
• Worries if killing or killed – In the dream you can not kill or you even killed an alligator, then this shows that bad luck is coming and you have be aware in making important decisions;
• Disappointment if be bitten or chased – You are dreaming that you are chased or bitten by a alligator, this denotes disappointments in love and in business and at work.

Medicine Wheel Meanings:

Keywords

Old, strong, aggressive, survivor, fundamental, primitive.

Description

The alligator is like the sturgeon, an animal which exists in today’s nature for thousands of years. He has only few enemies – the man is one of them – and feeds itself with meat in any form, whether dead or alive. With his sharp teeth he can chop up his food in the appropriate chunks. Now and then alligators reach a length of nearly five meters; copies of this size are easily able to overwhelm even a cow.

General Meaning

The most fundamental survival requirements of your nature: where do you live, how do you work, what do you eat, the condition of your health; the most primitive aspects of your emotional nature; The situations which require an “armor “.

Association

What did you chop up or what chopped up you; primitive feelings, internally feeding you; what do you eat.

Transcendent Meaning

Increased vulnerability; hidden aggression or force; basic needs of the survival; ancient wisdom.

* Please, see meaning of crocodile.