Have you ever seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers? I haven’t but somehow I managed to dream up a sequel/remake/reboot despite never  seeing the original. The dream played like a movie and felt like it could be a DIsney 3D movie but also was vulgar and adult in some places. As if Disney made a +18 Big Hero 6.

The dream was about me coming home from work and noticing a man attacking my mother. I rushed to fight him back but got wounded in the process. I managed to stab one in the chest with a knife but I  retreated when 2 other men came with guns. My mother for whatever reason refused to run and was murdered. My initial reaction was to try to kill all three of them but I decided it would be best to escape and survive. I felt like a coward and ran away guilted by allowing my mother to die. Later I got up the nerve to return and face these men even if it would be the end of my life. I returned expecting a fight but instead I saw my mother at home and was happy to see I returned. It was at this moment where I realized that despite her acting exactly the same, this could not have been my mother. I went to explain to my uncle and cousins who all refused to believe me and every time they finally came around, they had been pretending since they were also overtaken by this alien force and was out to kill me since I was the only one that knew about their tirade. 

Basically the whole “movie” was about me trying to find people to trust and being betrayed every time. One instance I trusted my distant cousin who tricked me into a car set to blow up while speeding 120 miles on the highway. I only had one more person to trust. A person that lived so far away that I knew so well that there’s no way I could mistake him for an impostor. My brother. I traveled far to find him and he believed me right off the bat. He wasn’t an impostor he was the real thing. We learned that these aliens weren’t trying to dominate the earth or anything like that but rather trying to invade and replace a city of humans to have somewhere to live. They killed some but they could also just control the conciseness of others without having to murder them. The dream ended before there was a real conclusion.

There were a lot of weird quirks in the dream too. At one point I met a group of members of a boy band and despite never seeing them before they could tell me their names and jobs. I remember knowing it was a dream and asked how could I know who they were and they explained that your brain takes in information from all over the subconscious and even though you can’t recite it you know more than you know which played a big part in finding out how to differentiate aliens from humans. I wouldn’t be able to see how many were in the area unless I was asleep and I remember telling my uncle I kept seeing the words “Chapter X” depending on how long the dream went.

Also there was a poster of a man fucking an Xcom Viper on a train.

I wish I was making all of this up and lying but I’m really weird when it comes to dreaming after exhaustion.