The night before last, I dreamt that a friend and I were eating at a little restaurant when I realized that the place was a primary meeting place for aliens who didn't quite belong in this reality. Some of them looked mostly like normal human beings, though with different body parts vibrating oddly; others were shifted slightly so that the eye could not focus on them; still others looked like one of Pablo Picasso's fever-dreams. Reproducing the visuals in that restaurant would need a special-effects budget equivalent to the combined GNP of a half a dozen third-world countries.
When I made a comment to the effect that most doctors thought my body was slightly unusual, a male-seeming being overhearing smiled and said, "Only slightly?"
Afraid that these people would realize my friend & I weren't like them, I said, "Well, I'm mostly human, so not all that different, and I don't have the powers..."
The man laughed and said, "That can be fixed, you know." And suddenly I did know, I realized that these aliens had the power to make me like them; and I realized that if they began to work to do so, they would immediately know that I wasn't one of their own. I was deeply afraid of what would happen to my friend & I if we were revealed to be of Earth.
"I'd really rather you didn't try it," said I.
"Why not?" he asked, concerned for me, really wanting to know.
"Well, frankly, it's hard enough for me to fit in with human society now. I don't think I'd be able to focus enough if I suddenly were even less like them, you know? I'm kind of desperate to pass as human here." He nodded in understanding, and I could finish my lunch in peace.
I wonder what the heck all that was about.
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In one of my dreams last night, a friend was driving me home at night and we saw on a nearby street a rather arresting scene. Apparently as part of a fraternity ritual, large numbers of naked college men were perched in the trees with their clothing draped over nearby branches. ::whine:: Nothing like that ever happens in my neighborhood when I'm awake. ::whine::
I had at least one other dream last night which I somehow keep being reminded of without actually being able to remember it.
When I made a comment to the effect that most doctors thought my body was slightly unusual, a male-seeming being overhearing smiled and said, "Only slightly?"
Afraid that these people would realize my friend & I weren't like them, I said, "Well, I'm mostly human, so not all that different, and I don't have the powers..."
The man laughed and said, "That can be fixed, you know." And suddenly I did know, I realized that these aliens had the power to make me like them; and I realized that if they began to work to do so, they would immediately know that I wasn't one of their own. I was deeply afraid of what would happen to my friend & I if we were revealed to be of Earth.
"I'd really rather you didn't try it," said I.
"Why not?" he asked, concerned for me, really wanting to know.
"Well, frankly, it's hard enough for me to fit in with human society now. I don't think I'd be able to focus enough if I suddenly were even less like them, you know? I'm kind of desperate to pass as human here." He nodded in understanding, and I could finish my lunch in peace.
I wonder what the heck all that was about.
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In one of my dreams last night, a friend was driving me home at night and we saw on a nearby street a rather arresting scene. Apparently as part of a fraternity ritual, large numbers of naked college men were perched in the trees with their clothing draped over nearby branches. ::whine:: Nothing like that ever happens in my neighborhood when I'm awake. ::whine::
I had at least one other dream last night which I somehow keep being reminded of without actually being able to remember it.