The one where I'm a member of the special council on alien relations

I dreamed that Jen and I were elected to the state legislature. It wasn't because we were exceptionally qualified - it was because nobody else wanted to run.

Anyway, we were both assigned to serve on the super secret Special Council on Alien Relations. It was a scientific group who were aware that there were aliens living on Earth and who were tasked with collaborating with them to promote peace, understanding, and technological advancement.

I was taken to a special conference room where the group met. There were six of us on the council: Jen and I, our son Daniel, a young scientist who I understood was there to serve as the brainy yet endearing comic relief, an ideological scientist who served as the alien sympathizer and possible traitor, and an imposing scientist with a beard who was very serious and in charge.

At this point I also came to understand that I was in a movie and that is why there were these various roles assigned to the scientists. My role (as we shall see) was as the inept government liaison.

At our group's first meeting I was told that there was a special emblem that the members of the council used to identify each other. When I asked what it was they said it was called a "valet". Then each of the scientists lifted up their legs to show me their shoes. On the bottom of their shoes they had taken a sharpie and drawn a downwards pointing arrow and written their name in cursive. Jen had already written hers, but she didn't want to ruin her shoes with sharpie, so she drew her arrow and name on her ankle.

I was told that there were two types of aliens that we were in contact with. The main aliens either looked just like us or had replaced some of us like in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". The other type of aliens were called biomorphs and they were bio powered constructs - like living robots. They had the general appearance of being human - with a head, torso, two arms, and two legs - but their bodies were transparent so that you could see inside them, and they looked slightly puffy like they were made of balloon material. Picture Big Hero 6, but transparent. If you looked inside their torso you could see how they were constructed and what type of bio material was powering them.

As part of my new assignment to the council I was given a tour of the alien research facility. While there I saw the (potentially) traitorous scientist working with the aliens on various experiments. There was also another scientist there who I suspected was actually an alien. The two of them glanced at me suspiciously as I walked through the lab.

There was also a biomorph in the lab. I glanced inside it to see what was powering it. Almost all of its torso was filled with a large rice krispy treat and the spaces on the sides were filled in with sliced potatoes and carrots.

Near the end of my tour I looked towards a corner of the lab and I saw what looked like an incubator partially obscured from view by a sheet. When I asked what it was the two scientists said it was nothing important - just an old experiment. Despite their protests, I walked over to it, pulled away the sheet, and saw a large incubator that contained several alien egg sacks. They were roughly the size of a large baked potato and they looked like the egg sacks in the Aliens movies - all slimy and pulsating. Each egg sack would hatch thousands of aliens.

I immediately realized that the aliens were plotting to take over the world. I hurried back to the secret meeting room so I could tell the others about the plot to overthrow the world. When I arrived, I found that Jen and Daniel had moved the large conference table out of the way and laid down mats so that they could practice gymnastics and parkour.

I called everyone together and had them close the doors. I told them that I did not want to cause a panic, but that I had found out that there were alien egg sacks being secretly incubated in the lab and that they were planning to take over the world.

As I told the story about what I saw, random other people would open the door to our secret meeting room and wander through. Whenever someone entered, we would all pretend to be doing nothing or talking about unimportant things. Then when they finally left we would resume our top secret conversation. It never occurred to any of us to lock the doors.

When I had finished, the large imposing scientist told me in very dramatic fashion that we should prepare a response to fight off the alien invasion. He then took me aside and whispered that really everything was OK - it was all part of the plot. The aliens were actually friendly and peaceful, but I had to see the egg sacks and raise the alarm to create some sort of tension for the movie.

At that point I woke up. Hopefully the script writers were able to resolve the conflict without too much violence. I especially worry about what happened to the rice krispy treat biomorph. He seemed particularly friendly.

Dreamed on 4/18/2020