It’s been a while since I've had a good alien dream but I
had an interesting one last night. Earth suffered two alien invasions in
succession. The first one involved a very human appearing species who could
often pass for us unless you really knew what to look for. They were generally
taller and thinner than us, and always had black eyes that held an unusual
shine. They initially attacked right at Christmas and were able to cause
tremendous disruption by attacking shopping centers and traffic hubs. Lana and
I were getting gas in our car when one such attack occurred, and we were able
to make a break through the resulting traffic snarl and escape into the
countryside. I saw the police respond and shoot some of the aliens, but they
had some kind of shielding that stopped the bullets. All you’d see was a kind
of shimmer when the bullets struck them, like heat waves.
Although the aliens quickly took over most of earth, a large
human underground resistance formed. We found that we could kill them even when
they were shielded by using edged weapons that could be pushed slowly through
their defense fields. We also discovered that they didn't wear their shielding
all the time. At one point, I and another group of guerrillas broke into an
alien TV station and were able to shoot up many aliens who were unshielded in
what they thought was a safe area.
The resistance forced the aliens into a peace treaty and we
found that, in fact, we could co-exist. Before long we were living with one
another instead of against one another. In fact, when the second invasion came,
I was at a football game with an alien friend of mine and was studying the
program booklet, which told us which of the players were alien and which human.
The tall, thin aliens seemed to be particularly prominent at the wide-receiver
position.
As we were at the game, these small, crab-like aliens
suddenly came floating down all over the place. One landed at our feet. It
tried to snap my human-like alien friend with its claws and he stomped on it.
We knew instantly that they were aliens and it was an invasion, but we laughed
at how easily it was going to be for us to repel the new invasion. Then the
crab creatures deployed their technology. Each was wearing some kind of machine
harness around their bodies, and when they pressed a red button a virtual
armored suit formed around them, kind of like what they used to call a Waldo.
When they opened fire from these suits we realized we weren't going to defeat
them so easily.
I woke up after that so I don’t know whether we won or not.
I guess we did since I’m still here blogging this morning. What I did realize
when I woke up is that the image/idea materials for the dream had been cobbled
together out of stuff I've been reading and watching lately. Since school has
been out I've been indulging myself with reading and movies. I've been “feeding
my head,” and that’s what my brain was using to construct the dream. I’d
watched the movie Arrival, about an alien invasion; I’d watched Avatar again
last night. I've been reading some Star Trek and watching reruns. I read a book
about terrorists trying to use biological warfare on the US. I noted there was
going to be a remake of Red Dawn. I
watched The Bourne Legacy, which
involved a guy shooting up a research laboratory. I read a horror/western about
spider-like (or crab-like) demons. Put all that together and you have many of
the elements of my dream.
In other words, if you want to have weird dreams like mine,
remember what the door mouse said: Feed your head.
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