The snake was friendly at first and did not bite him, but Wayne remembered from a science report he once wrote about the world’s largest snakes that boas do not generally bite. They constrict. After a while the boa grew tired of being friendly and decided to slither up to Wayne and do some constricting. The enormous snake twined itself around Wayne’s arms and chest and thighs. It tightened its vise-like hold upon him, and in no time at all Wayne couldn’t breathe. He’s going to suffocate me! he thought in his dream, as he thrashed back and forth in bed. At the same time that Wayne was being squeezed by one of the largest snakes in the world, his brother Rodney was having a nightmare of his own. He was also being squeezed. But it wasn’t a snake that was doing the squeezing. In fact, Rodney couldn’t see the agent of his trouble. Invisible hands were pulling invisible sashes to make his clothes tighter and tighter. Rodney wondered, is this a madman’s straitjacket I’m wearing?
