ALIENS
MULDER
What is this weight on my chest, as I lay down on a rocky bed under the sky ? I hear scratchy sounds just above me.
I can't stare at it, too frightened by painful reminiscences. Opening slightly my eyes, I see a triangular face, with two big globular eyes, trying to hypnotize me.
It's a green one, not a grey, how can it be ?
Its two arms are lethal weapons, saws meant to tear up my body.
Scully !
SCULLY
Mulder !
I can hear him, summoning me far away in this labyrinthine abandoned building.
Where are you ? Wait !
I search my way with my flashlight in these dark corridors, navigating by his voice.
I perceive big noises, then nothing. Mulder ?
I rush forward frantically. Eventually, I find him, laying on the floor. Checking him, I find no wounds. Calmly, he says, "You miss the little grey, Scully."
M&S
Sometimes, on a same night, at the same moment, we have strange nightmares about aliens. We don't really share common visions, just angst, fear, and disbelief.
One sees a giant praying mantis alien, the other always fails to witness the classic one.
What are the questions these dreams are meant to answer to ?
NOTES:
First, Mulder's vision is based on the M.C. Escher wood engraving, titled "The Dream" (1930), and of course, on Mulder's mantis phobia, related in War of the Coprophages.
Second, it's a light tribute to the quote "Dreams are answers we haven't yet figured out how to ask."