It is rare that I remember dreams that I have when sleeping anymore, but this one was too real…

Last night, I went to bed at a decent hour, 10:30pm, and went immediately to sleep. I woke up at 3:13am to use the bathroom. I know this, because anytime I have to get up in the middle of the night, I always check the clock in hopes that I still have hours of sleep left to go. It’s kind of like a game. If I check the clock and only have 15 minutes to go before I have to get up, it is very disappointing.

Anyway, back to the story. I went back to bed and could not fall asleep. I must have eventually fallen asleep after 4:15am because that’s the last time I remember seeing on the clock on my night stand. So there i am, apparently in a dream, when I hear a lot of loud banging coming from somewhere in the house. For whatever reason, I couldn’t move. I just laid there in my sleeping position and was frozen. Then I felt what I can only describe as someone crawling up on the bed between my wife and I. Now, I have 2 kids. The youngest one loves to climb in bed with us, but never this early. Plus, I did not hear our door open. So this crawling in to our bed thing lasted a couple minutes and then went away. Once the crawling stopped, the loud banging was gone as well.

I checked with my wife and she heard nor felt any of this stuff and said it must have all been a dream. Or was it?

How do I know it was not some failed attempt at an Alien abduction? I mean, I don’t really think about these things and have never stated pro or con about my beliefs in Aliens at all. But, I have seen enough movies to know that my “dream” had all the marks of what I have seen in movies. It would seem to me that an experienced Alien would make very little noise, survey the area, and use its powers/technology to simply beam the abductee up in the the space ship. So maybe Alien abductors have apprentices. Maybe the guy trying to abduct me was an apprentice in training and this was its first trip solo. The “real” Aliens (possibly Union Aliens) were probably waiting in the ship. If any of this is true, they’re probably all pretty ticked off a the apprentice for making so much noise and almost blowing their cover.

Now, I know what I look like. I see myself every day, and am saddened to report that I have gained back enough of the weight that I lost to now tip the scales at 285. Maybe their abduction ray tried to take me but couldn’t. Might not have had enough horsepower. If that is true, I am actually very offended, because in the movies I have seen them beam up cows, and even Buicks to their ships. Do I actually weigh more than a cow now? I’ll do some research on that one, but I am 99.999% positive that I don’t weight as much as a Buick.

Since my wife and kids, which all weight considerable less than I do, are all still accounted for this morning, I will have to go with the dream theory and leave it at that. But it was so real. It is actually very cool when you remember a dream. I used to dream numerous times a night when I was younger and I swear I remembered most of them. I was actually worried that I didn’t dream anymore and what that might mean, so I am glad to be able to remember one when it comes around again.

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