Extraterrestrial Terrorists

I had a dream that I was a substitute elementary school teacher, 4th grade or below. I had bought a large plastic interactive help kids learn to draw thing. I had put it in the teacher’s locked desk drawer, but the next morning it had disappeared. A teacher in the next room was bringing her kids over to watch. I asked her if she had seen anyone in the room the previous day or early that morning. She had not. I went to every classroom looking in windows if they had one, barging into those that didn't. I was on the other end of the school and hoping the kids in "my" class were not getting too rowdy while I peeked into a room and saw a teacher showing her kids the same drawing “toy”. I ran in & grabbed it, telling her it was mine. She said it wasn't & told me she had just bought one and pointed to the receipt on the desk. I put down the toy & picked up the receipt. I looked at it and wondered if either it was mine & she had taken that, too, or she had printed her own. I doubted it and apologized explaining what had happened.

Suddenly we heard over the school's PA a news report that there was a rumor that alien terrorists may be getting ready to destroy Earth and everyone had to evacuate to the moon.

I was suddenly at a NASA like place in Illinois waiting in line to get on a rocket ship. Standing behind me were min8ive, J. & their son B. B was allowed onto the first rocket, but min8ive & J were told they had to get on the second one. B was not allowed to automatically get on the second one. A couple getting on the first offered to switch.

I embarked along with M & T B, L & J & their 2 kids, JB & several others. On the way there, M pointed out that perhaps the old ratty t-shirt I was wearing might not be the best to have gone to the moon in. I realized I could have been wearing a nicer, newer one and commented that now I am worried that I could have picked a nicer t-shirt in which to die.

Then I noticed John's brother Chris B sitting next to him. He was just sitting motionless with his hands clasped together staring blankly at the floor. I told him how sorry I was to have heard he passed away (he really did, of leukemia). He did not say anything or move a single muscle. I thought about how it was probably inappropriate for me to care what T-shirt I was wearing at that point.

We got to the moon & the second rocket ship was on it’s way when we got news that it was a false rumor & it was ok to go back. Our rocket ship had taken off from the moon when it was discovered they left behind 3 people who had gotten off to walk on the moon. The rocket orbited the moon while the three people space walked back and the rest of us looked out windows and watched.

The three people made it safely back in & we returned to Earth. The rocket landed at S W’s house (even thought I have no idea what it looks like). Everyone else left quickly. Steve was in his kitchen looking at a piece of mail he had retrieved from his mail box & was a bit upset over it’s contents: a credit card statement saying he had charged a lot more than he apparently thought.

M & I were inside trying to make our way to the front door so we could leave, but she spotted a copy of the extended version of the Lord of the Rings book lying in a stack of books on a side table. I told her we should really get out of the there, but she picked it up. I quietly commented that I had the same book in a storage container. Suddenly we heard music over another PA system: the song Eagles Fly by Sammy Hagar (see below). She flipped through the book looking for the song lyrics but in the center of the book, the pages were stiffer. I told her they were photos of filming the movies. Then Terry B walked in the front door & gave us both “Why are you still here looks”. I told him we were just leaving and pretty much grabbed the back of M's shirt collar & dragged her out the front door.

And I woke up.