Invasion

Last night in my dream I was standing outside of a building next to a food cart (might have a been a hotdog stand) when I looked up and saw a shooting star. As i watched it got bigger and bigger until it looked like it fell right behind the hill in front of me. A lot of people ran over the hill to get a better look. As I stood there watching, a huge metallic creature came over the hill. It was some kind of vessel and it was shaped kind of like a mechanical snake. It's huge arrow shaped head had a single red "eye" on the top and it started shooting at us. I quickly tried to duck under the cart to find out there was no room under, so I jumped behind it then behind a parked car.

From behind the parked car I was able to find out there was another snake ship by the building. It was dropping strange electrified pod from part of it's body. I decided I didn't want to find out what the pods did so I ran towards the building, but there were to pods already inspecting the doors so I veered towards the hill since the snake thing was in the way the other direction.

Before the hill was another building (I don't recall there being two buildings in the beginning of the dream, but such are my dreams. :P ) The doors of this building were locked. I had to break the door to get in. I noticed the doors were all starting to shut like an alarm had gone off and this was the security protocol. I looked back and saw one of the electrified pods just outside and watched as it dropped several screw shaped pods. A couple of the screw pods started scooting on the ground straight at me. I ran into the main part of the building and past a bunch of cubes trying to lose the screw pods.

Most of the people in the cubes didn't notice me, but they did notice the floating screw pods and started to panic. I found the emergency stairs and started going up stairs. At some point, I changed perspectives and I was in the body of some guy who knew the aliens were coming somehow. He was at the very top of the stairs and had a pod chasing him. He ran into this break room and shut the door. In the room was a person talking to the aliens and a couple more screw pods. There was a conversation or an argument between him and the other person when the screw pod chasing him finally broke the door and flew at him, but he dodged it and it slammed into the window. The window shattered and it became a wind tunnel, like they were in outer space, but they weren't. The other two pods and the traitor person flew out the window. The guy's whose perspective I'd changed to grabbed onto things and sat down once the pressure equalized. I think it felt he'd found a good hiding place.

Then I was back in my body. I'd ditched the stairs and was hiding on top of a big arch like structure that was in the main lobby of this building. It was about 20 feet tall and had a small flat roof so I was pressed down against it to hide from the pandemonium just below me. At some point I vaguely recall the room being cleared out so I jumped down and started running again or something.

Shortly there after I woke up.

Company lunch

So last night I dreamt that the CEO of the company I work for was taking the QA and Dev team out to dinner. My wife was invited to come along also.

We took highway 87 (not a real local highway) to get there and at some point lost our car so we had to walk the last part. At the off ramp I found my wife's wallet, some of our blockbuster online movies and a jacket laying on the ground. I nearly got run over by a car trying to pick them up.

At the edge of this off ramp was a weird staircase thing that led down to the restaurant. Since it had been raining, the steps were slippery so we very carefully went down them. After several minutes we finally got to the restaurant and one of my co-workers (Scott) was waiting for us at the waiting area. He had this sad look on his face and let us know that the restaurant had decided they didn't have enough room for all of us and since we were the last to arrive, we wouldn't be able to have dinner.

I was a little annoyed until I looked over at where the group was sitting and found that there were around 8 2-person tables empty all around our group. The maitre-de came over and tried to explain that they couldn't use those cause that part of the restaurant wasn't open right now. (In real life I've been a waiter twice and handled significantly larger groups without much problem at all.) At this I just got plain pissed off, so much so that the maitre-de actually walked me out of the restaurant.

I was annoyed and it had started slightly raining again making the stairwell back up nearly impossible to navigate. To make things worse it had transformed to something different where at the end of each flight you had to jump up and grab a ledge and pull yourself through a hole to get to the next flight of stairs. The last one I just couldn't fit through. I remember looking down the side of it and seeing a big Ronald McDonald like it was some kind of play jungle stairs.

We gave up at that point and went back down so we could just take the elevator up.

At this point things start to fade out badly but I vaguely remember the elevator being near a magazine kiosk and something about a janitor, I think he took the elevator with us.