THE DREAM The dream seemed to be very documentary in style. It was like watching a program. There was a crossroads and people were bound to get caught at this crossroads because there were alligators there.

GUESSWORK The day before huge job cuts had been announced in a workplace the dreamer visited a great deal. It was not known who was affected.

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ASSOCIATIONS AND SYMBOLIC MEANINGS
1. Crossroads could easily symbolize any crossroads in your life or some major transition. This could easily represent the situation in real life where a huge number of job cuts had been announced. That is a major change.
2. Alligators can represent any kind of ruthless person or situation. Job cuts can be applied in a ruthless way so its easy to see how it could represent job cuts ruthlessly applied. So the mind could use the alligator as a metaphor for the terrible consequences of job cuts.

DREAM ANALYSIS In guesswork the dream was linked to the job cuts announced which affected many people whom the dreamer came in regular contact with. The dream deals with the following themes
- ruthless loss of jobs
- A major transition

If you weave together the different themes you find that they could capture these thoughts -"These job cuts are going to be ruthless. I know lots of people there and some of them will lose their jobs"