Rising above the beautiful blue and cloudy face of Earth can be an inspiring and uplifting experience, and in this dream some are lucky enough to live in that layer that lies within the protective embrace of the earth's magnetic bubble, and above the clouds. Real estate is limited more by what flies by than by space alone. Certain corridors are left open for traffic. Ships land on the platforms that dot various locations with differing altitudes and orbit.
I was rising up in a defense vessel large enough to hold three men. We rendezvoused with other vessels perhaps a quarter of the distance between the earth and the moon; also valuable real estate.
When we reached our parking position somewhat close to the rear of our fleet we could see ships in the distance that didn’t look like ours. These other ships were arrayed before us aligned in a Cartesian pattern holding their position. It reminded me of two ancient phalanxes of hoplites facing each other on a plain.
The ships were a bit like the shields the hoplites used except that they were rounded on both sides. They were a perfect flattened spheres with no sharp edges except for the edge of the shield. There were no bumps or lines any kind on their perfect skin. You could make out constellations reflected in their mirrored surface, above or below.
We waited for what seemed an interminable amount of time; there seemed to be too many ships for them to have a peaceful purpose.
The defense forces of the world were hastily gathered and in position in front of the intruders. We held our collective breath, and below us the world waited to discover our collective fate.
A grid made of light beams was emitted from beneath those perfectly mirrored hulls and formed a floor under every ship present. It resembled netting, or chain link fence. You could imagine someone walking on it.
Orange figures emerged through the hulls of the ships; in the distance they looked human, but as they worked their way through the fleet you could see how strange they looked. They seemed to glow a dull orange. They resembled humans like some cartoon drawing, capturing the overall size and shape but getting the detail wrong. No fingers, the head more a bullet shaped protuberance with vertical lines placed on the head and torso for aesthetic appeal; a caricature of us.
They worked their way from ship to ship in our line, and we could see them enter the ships in the rank before us; simply walking through the hull of each of our craft in an unhurried and businesslike manner.
Although we were seeing what was going on around our ship on the outside, we were frozen when several emerged through the walls into our little craft. They methodically began murdering us with a hatchet shaped weapon.
My thought was that this was an awfully primitive way to be attacked by such a sophisticated enemy. When it was my turn he hit me in the chest and I went down; but just before I lost consciousness, I looked to see what his face looked like and was surprised to see that he didn’t have one; he was featureless.
This dream began with the discovery of intelligent life on a planet orbiting a deeply orange star – an enormous distance away that the human government decided to contact. A contact vessel was sent which did not return.
The war ensued.
We had neither defense nor offense, as we could not penetrate their perimeter the way they repeatedly penetrated ours. We destroyed much of our military trying.
We had no understanding of these creatures in fact we never actually saw them; and they evidenced superior technology.
The dream continued into a delightful summer vacation setting that could have been Hawaii, Florida or one of the coastal states because you could see the ocean or the bay from the kitchen window.
It was a sunny morning and I had just finished breakfast at the kitchen table and was beginning to read the newspaper with a friend.
There were enormous explosions in the water outside our window rising up in black clouds unbelievably high.
We ran out the door and tried to outrun any blast that might come from the direction of the sea and tried to get behind a large square fountain that had low walls.
This was an unending nightmare and it went on to somewhere in the Midwest where I was hurrying to a meeting.
The view from the hilltop where I stood looking down the bend in the river was as peaceful and bucolic as any that I had seen except for the perfect shape that swung side to side and seemed to meander lazily up the river towards me passing trees almost to take in the view on such a beautiful summer’s day.
It stopped.
About a hundred yards off the side of the river was a low white building. It was our civil defense headquarters and my destination. I was late.
The shape hanging over the river was about 30 yards across and mirrored so you could see the green of the underbrush and trees in its reflection. I marveled at such a triumph of engineering.
It began to move towards the building. I was awe struck and horrified by it; I had never seen one before. It floated above the building, perhaps a couple of hundred feet.
I thought I heard a soft buzzing sound as it began to emit some form of invisible radiation directly down onto the building below. Although I couldn't see the radiation I could see the distortion in the air underneath the full belly of the craft, as though it were radiating some kind of heat from all the way across its bottom. And I knew that everyone in that office building was dead.
I had a sense of a war going on that we were not winning. I felt bitter that we had contacted these creatures. Somehow it was our fault.
We never saw them or knew who they were. They were the ultimate enigma.
I saw human ships exploring deeper into space; moving at high speed. A black ship arcing up into the distant stars.
The next scene was a planet orbiting a distant sun that had life on it.
I was walking with others along a row of kind of hedge or tree that grew to perhaps sixty feet in the air and was in uniform cultivated rows. It strongly resembled vegetation from earth. The planet was covered in this growth which was the only form of life on the planet and there were signs of harvesting.
It was not the only planet with such life.
This was a main source of raw material for the alien civilization that we were fighting. And locating these planets and putting them out of business became our offensive activity.
