Strange dream
I dreamed we were with some friends and sword troupe members in a place that was supposed to be the town I grew up in at the end of the road where I lived. (It did not look anything like that, but in the dream I knew that’s where it was.)
For some reason, and underground stream was running in a big sewer next to the road. We needed to get across it to the other side for some reason.
The stream was going over a dam and the water over the top wasn’t very deep. It dropped a short distance to a more turbulent flow and went off down the tunnel running along the street.
One of our friends decided she could walk across the top of the dam to the other side as it wasn’t very far across and the water wasn’t deep.
We watched her make her way across without much trouble and reach a platform on the other side. As she made her way across, I saw several alligators in the water below her.
While others were warning her of that, I saw a large boa constrictor poised to strike behind her on the platform.
I shouted a warning about the snake to her as it struck. It didn’t grab her, but the force of its strike knocked her off the platform into the water below.
Her boyfriend and I both jumped in after her as the current swept her down stream. (No, I don’t know how the alligators remained stationary.)
It carried us down stream as well, and we all ended up in a pool of water underground a ways down hill from where we were.
There was lots of debris floating around, so I grabbed a big piece of wood and used it to discourage alligators while the other two climbed up a ladder on the side. Once they were up I followed, bonking at least one alligator with my club.
We followed the path the ladder led to back to the platform where it started. The snake was gone so we climbed up to the surface.
“We should warn people about that,” one of the others said.
This side of the road was quite urban and looked far more like a street in a major city than the town where I grew up.
I looked around and all I could find was a traffic guard helping kids cross a street.
I explained to them about large snakes and alligators in the tunnels under them.
They said they’d pass on my report.
Dream ends
I’ve got no idea what this was about.
Yes, it involved people I had seen earlier that day. And, I had watched the first Paddington movie that evening, which has a VERY short run through some sewers in London.
But, no alligators or snakes.
And, why in my hometown?
Why crossing guards?
I really don’t know what was going on there.