If your croc dream were my dream Living Well, I'd have a slightly different take; I believe everything in a dream is part of us; that water represents the unconscious so I'd take the dream to mean I was afraid of my unconscious, of getting in the water. I had a poisonous snakes in my bed clothes dream a couple nights ago that turned out similarly for me (afraid of the power of my creativity
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0..._n_892254.html ).
Have you ever read,
Women Who Run With the Wolves?
http://www.amazon.com/Women-Who-Run-.../dp/0345377443 Your dream kind of reminded me of that book.