I am watching a Lost-like show — perhaps Lost? — in which some penultimate reveal threatens to blow the doors off the show. A woman is pressing some entity for answers as to why a disadvantaged neighbor kid wanted to find out about triangular beings of light that lived at the bottom of a nearby body of water. They kept referring to the aliens as “the napers.” The napers resembled the old ’80s special effect visual of a laser light drawing a triangle into fog or smoke.
There’s something about the idea that the aliens are the ones being asked the questions, and that they were trying to be helpful… all I remember is that they came to Earth and ended up in a lake and had some water manipulation powers. The kid wanted them to help his mother, and they ended up helping him instead.
In an appreciated twist on a time-worn nightmare scenario of mine, when the woman asked about how the napers were helpful, my dream featured a flash-sideways where I was the neighbor kid, in my bed, in the exact same position that I fell asleep in tonight. One of the aliens floated over my immobile form, and used invisible hands to pull the covers over me and tuck me into bed snugly, the same way a mom would.
(Typically in my dreams of being immobile in bed, there is a thing present that is awful that I don’t want to see, or is directly threatening me somehow. I woke up from this dream creeped out, but grateful that at least it wasn’t my usual.)
