When I dream, there are usually elements of things I had seen, heard or read about the previous day. My dreams are often lucid. Last night was no exception.
..We regularly watch the Public Television program NOVA ScienceNOW. It’s a great program covering many scientific subjects and profiles, explaining the subject material in terms that the average viewership can easily grasp and get excited about. We love programming like this.
Last night we watched some program that dealt with auditory sound and hearing. One of the scenes that was shown several times was a close-angle view of an American alligator in the swamp, down close to his level. The point was the mating call of the male alligator is a low frequency rumbling growl that can be heard over great distances.
I dreamt that my wife, child and I were on a flatboat in the Florida Everglades. The Florida Everglades is vast slowly-moving river of swampy water, grasses and weeds. It is lined with cypress trees, mosses, vines and it is filled with exotic and unusual wildlife. There are mosquitoes, turtles, waterbirds of every type, poisonous snakes, etc. And alligators. Big hungry alligators. Well, as often happens in my dreams, chaos occurred. Our flatboat either tipped over or sank. We were forced to wade towards the relative safety shore in the stank waist-deep predator-infested waters.
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A large alligator (the one from the NOVA ScienceNOW episode I think) came to investigate us. Armed with only a short but sharp stick about one-third of a meter long, I was ill-equipped to defend against this advancing reptile. Pushing his toothy snout away was proving fruitless. He continued to harass us. I opted to stab the pointy stick into his open mouth the next time he came close enough to do so. One of two things would happen; either the stick pierces the alligator’s tongue and he feels pain and leaves us alone, or he bites down and traps my arm. I would be eaten. This would at least buy some time for my wife and child to escape. I would sacrifice myself to the gator to save my wife and child. I was willing to do it.
You must have been so glad to have woken up – betchya gave your wife and son a huge hug 
I love having weird and wonderful dreams that make you go “What the?” when you wake up. Wonderfully written, thank you for sharing.
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