So I had this dream last night, and now I’m wondering if it was about something I have actually seen or read, as it was very specific. But my dreams are often very linear, and more like stories, than random things happening.

I dreamt it was the near future where Earth had been invaded by aliens. The aliens looked like humans, both like men and women, but they communicated and nourished themselves through telepathy. When a human being became an adult they were mind-linked to one of these aliens, which was called “patched”. It was not voluntary, but someone who was deemed too ignorant could be rejected and live without being patched. One alien could be patched with several humans, and the more humans they had, the more successful and rich, the alien was. Humans too preferred to be patched to a successful alien, even if they had no choice in that matter. An alien could, through the patching, make a human do whatever they wanted, but they could not remove or change personalities, or make a human-like what they really disliked, and vice versa.

For most humans, the patching was seen as something positive. They went on with their daily life, and though linked with an alien mind it didn’t impact them on a daily basis. If it did it would be helpful. For example, a man whose heater broke was temporarily patched through his alien with a person who was an expert on boilers, giving him the knowledge to fix his boiler instead of buying a new one. A woman who was adopted was patched by a number of people who could help her find her birth mother. When she had found her and was going to meet, her alien recognized the moment as very emotionally lade and instead of feeding on the emotions, she temporarily broke the patching to give the woman privacy.

But even if the aliens were largely beneficial to “their” humans, they also kept some of them physically close, for more direct nourishment. This could mean deciding what a human was to eat, so the alien could “taste” the food through their telepathic contact. Again most aliens tried to keep their humans happy, feeding on their well-being, but there were aliens who did the opposite; tortured and raped their humans and fed on their pain and unhappiness.

And then I dreamt about a young woman who was recently patched with an alien and chosen to be kept close. Her alien was a nice one, but she still had problems with having many of her choices removed from her. She was also close to a woman who was kept by an evil alien, and she was very upset that her nice alien did nothing to intervene.

And there I woke up, with no conclusion. So, is this a thing? Can I read or watch something that will explain how to get rid of these aliens, or is it all in my mind and I need to figure it out myself?

I think my brain is desperately trying to make sense of the world, because my dreams have been even more coherent than usual lately. This is what I dreamt toníght. It was not the most scary nightmare I have ever had, but the feeling of it was so desperately sad, all through. It was the kind of dream when you are an invisible onlooker.

A man is sitting in a tower room. He is middle-age and not attractive, dressed in something which looks medieval. He is also wearing a heavy stone collar, chained to his body. The room is very cold and you can see it’s winter outside. He has been writing, but is now playing with a small iron rod, slightly bent and with knotted ends. He looks very serious. My dream-me knows the man has been sentenced for a terrible crime, something which has killed a lot of people. But as he used to be a man of importance he has been allowed to make three stipulations. To decide which day he is to be executed, and he has just decided- it’s going to be the next day. To be imprisoned in this stone tower, which is why he is wearing the stone collar. The tower has a deep well in the cellar and the collar is to make sure the man drowns if he tries to flee that way. And last he is to have the company of a young woman. As the woman is clearly very unhappy, everyone think he is abusing her.

The man is a magician and as he sits there he has a vision of the woman escaping the tower and running away. It’s not for real, in the vision it is summer and the woman wears a white gown with blue flowers. She also have long dark hair hanging down her back. The man knows this is what the woman most wants to do. But when he leaves the room she is sitting outside room waiting for him. She wears a blue wool coat and a red scarf. She smiles at him and my dream-me realises that what everyone thinks about them are wrong.

It’s not the magician who has killed all those people, but a demon. The reason to why the killings have stopped is because he has managed to temporarily bind it to the well. But the spell will be broken when he dies and that’s why he hasn’t set his date to execution until now- he has tried to find a way to kill the demon for good. The woman knows all this, they are friends and her unhappiness and wish to escape has nothing to do with him being abusive. She’s unhappy because the only was the magician has found to defeat the demon is if because someone agrees to sacrifice themselves, and it can’t be the magician who has to say the spell. So she has agreed to it. But both knows that no one will ever find out the truth and the next day everyone will think the magician has killed the woman because he is evil.

The dream ended with the magician sitting down beside her and she takes his hand. And it’s so cold their breath is all white around their faces.

After this my brain relented and gave me a nice dream where I went to a Voltaire-concert. Though I have to question my subconscious idea to place the concert in an oriental coffee shop and give me bright blue stockings to a goth-dress up...