I forgot to write down what night I had the dream.  The dream occurred in three stages that seemed to meld into each other: however, the first stage seemed to not be very related to the other two.  Also, after I woke up, I could have swore the dream (the last two stages, that is) was something I had once read in a book, or seen in a movie, but I later checked all the books I'd read, and checked my memory, and I apparently haven't previously seen or read it.

  As best as I can recall, it starts with me having arrived, by walking, in a new town in the evening.  I go to a small store that was supposed to be a flea market, of sorts, but it was very clean, and they did not have many things to sell, and it was ran by the actress, Lea Thompson.

  She had one or two employees, though I remember only one with any clarity, and it was a younger female with long black hair.  I don't recall all the details of what happened in the store, but it was close to closing time, and it was getting dark outside.  I think there was something having to do with me not having any place to stay the night, and the owner and employees had an apartment connected to the store, and they were maybe going to let me sleep in the store area, but I don't recall exactly.

  It starts getting really strange when everything is closed down, and they had just gone through the door that connects the store to the living quarters.  I suddenly take on a third person observer role in the dream, and two females (one of whom is Neve Campbell), in their mid 20's run up the street to the store, somehow get inside, and then jump into this red (maybe) and strangely shaped convertible that is suddenly in the middle of the store.

  They apparently know the store to some degree, because they hit whatever trigger it takes to make the entire building raise up on four hinged metal legs except for the part of the floor under the car, and with the building raised, they drive off.

  I was again a participating person inside the building, and Lea and the employee come back out the door and are disappointed by the theft, but they don't seem to be going to do anything about it.  The part of the floor that the car was on is now a ramp.  I look at the car driving off, then at the Lea and the employee, and I decide, I suppose in order to curry favor, to chase after the car on foot.

  I run down the ramp and after the car, and oddly enough, the car is going very slowly, and I can easily catch up to it.  I then reach under the back bumper, and I pick up the car, which is veritably weightless.  I don't recall exactly what I did, but I think I actually shook them out of the car.  The next part skipped around a bit, but I think I carried the car back to the store.  They were happy.  Then the dream phased into a different part.

  I didn't get to write down the dream right away, so there was some event fading to begin with, and what I did write down was pretty much the gist of what was going on, so there won't be quite as much event by event accounting from here on.

  I think I was still in the same city, but maybe a mile or two away.  I did not know it at the time, but apparently there was an alien species planning to take over Earth, and they had started gradually by starting to take over this town in a Pod People type manner.

  Although the aliens were capable of emotions, they considered them bad.  The first person they copied was the Mayor or some Senator, and due to his position, he was allowed to show normal emotions and was often happy and smiling.

  They had taken over roundabout 50 people, and their Earth base of operations was in a sort of convention center near or connected to the city's (though it had more of a town feel) court house, though later it was inside the court house.  The originals of the people were partially wrapped in a strange biological tissue, and attached to the ceiling.

  The main guy on Earth started enjoying his emotions too much, and the others killed him.  I never saw this happen, because at the same time, I was being a non-participating observer to his female personal secretary sort of luring this other female away.  The female was not a copy, and though she didn't realize it, the actions she chose to take in her job, there, were proving rather detrimental to the aliens progress, plus the secretary seemed to just not like her very much.

  Anyway, the secretary was telling her she needed to go get something or do something in the steeple of the courthouse.  They both went up to the steeple, and the secretary pushed her out the window, killing her.

  I don't know how the humans were subdued, that they could be taken over, but some people were naturally resistant, and most of them, due to the mere presence of the aliens in the solar system, developed different super powers.  I was suddenly someone else, and I don't know about super strength, but I was able to fly.

  In another "uninfected" part of town, there was a rich man who owned a large building that was a sort of stadium, though not quite as large as a sports stadium.  It had no roof, and only a portion of the rim had any sort of seating, and the middle "field" area was made into a giant pinball machine of sorts.  There were geometrically shaped "bumpers" and such.

  The rich man had a boy kidnapped and put into this giant game, where the boy would have to run to keep from being squashed by a giant silver metal ball, and the rich man did this for his own cruel entertainment.  I don't know how I suddenly knew about the boy needing rescuing, but I flew to the stadium, dropped in from above, and scooped the boy out, flying him to safety.

  Apparently, there were some people who knew about the aliens, and, again, it was merely dream knowledge that let me know this, but a normal woman in France was organizing a secret resistance against the aliens, and her primary plan was the gathering and organizing of as many of the super-powered people as she could contact.

  Compared to the world's population, you might say not too many developed powers, but just guessing, the U.S. alone might have had an average of four per city, depending on the size.

  Anyway, all the super-powered people seemed to become super heroes (as in good guys), and they seemed to all be males, but dream knowledge did not tell me for certain.

  I actually saw only about six super heroes.  At one non-participating point, I saw a large, muscular black man who always kicked ass with a smile and, for some reason, wore a small Ferris wheel on his head as part of his costume, the rest of which was long Spandex tights, and a Spandex tank top, or something that showed his muscles.  He's the only one I saw clearly, and he was just cool in his own unique way, and had charisma out the wazoo.

  He looked a little cartoon-like from time to time.  I wish I could more sufficiently describe his attitude.  Very high energy and outgoing, and would start dancing a bit at any given point when he reached a certain level of excitement.

  Another side effect of the alien presence was that one or two of every species of animal developed great intelligence and superior health.  A male gorilla developed the greatest intelligence, developed excellent human speech, and eventually developed great insight about the aliens, regarding who they are and what they wanted.

  The dream skipped, but the aliens were defeated, and the ones not on Earth left to return to their own planet.  Since they were gone, the super-people returned to normal, but the animals retained their intelligence, though their health leveled off a bit.

  The third phase of the dream took place a few years later, and there were some logic problems.

  Someone had made a movie that would be playing soon, and the movie was a sequel, though the prior movie had never actually been made.  The movie was more of a sequel to what Earth had actually gone through with the aliens, but it's like most of the planet had forgotten all of it, because most everyone seemed to not even know that this so-called sequel was to what had actually occurred.

  I was in a building that was strange in that part of it had a couple of movie theaters, while just one door down was a huge room that is a little difficult to describe.  It's an enormous room like a basketball gym (sheet metal-like walls and high ceiling with visible metal gerters) but with just an all-concrete floor, and it was set up with tables like from a school cafeteria (table/bench combinations).

  In this room was supposed to be "my" high school reunion.  Though there were a few people there who I did actually go to high school with in real life, there were far too many people in all, and the rest I'd never seen before in real life.

  The whole reunion premise seemed to change, and suddenly the people were there for a reason I was not entirely clear about.  Everyone was asked to fill out this book of forms (questions/paperwork), and though everyone was normal at first, the logic of the dream changed again, and pretty much right after people started filling out the paper work, there was a sort of mingling of situations.

  Partially, I'm in a room of unsuspecting people, and partially, the people are already taken over by the aliens.  On the unsuspecting-people part, the forms helped the aliens take over more people, but on the other part, there's no real purpose associated with the forms.

  At a more balanced point, where I can better account for detail events, it's then like some people are taken over, while others are in the process of being taken over, and they are filling out the forms for a purpose that doesn't even exist.

  This was not a part of the dream at all, but now that I think about it, it was almost as if the forms were used to put the people in a certain state of concentration that allowed the aliens to take them over more easily.

  Anyway, instead of making copies of people, the aliens were actually taking over their minds directly.  Perhaps partially due to dream knowledge, but also by their change in behavior, I could tell which ones were fully taken over.  Also, while the ones taken over did not generally show any excess of emotion, they did show some when needed for the purpose of not raising suspicion.

  The guy across from me at the table was fully taken over, and seemed to be suddenly of some level of authority, and I had to pretend I had been taken over since I was resistant, and I knew what was happening.  One aspect of the taking-over process was to, in a small way, let the person know pretty much what was going on, but sort of make them want to be taken over, and this was apparently done mentally from the mother ship, despite it's distance above the planet.

  I guess the aliens were just making very fast progress with their new method, because most everyone who was resistant before, was resistant again, and somehow sensed they were back, though they may have seen no actual evidence of it, except for the ones who had the super-powers, but they aren't part of the dream yet.

  Apparently, a lot of the more official and scientific people who had been resistant and remembered had gathered and studied the animals that were affected.  There was one compound in the city where many of them were kept and tended to.  All the animals were showing signs of advanced age.

  A bit of illogic is that, as far as the animals, and the study of them was concerned, the first encounter seemed to occur decades before, hence the age, but as far as the actual people were concerned, it was just a few years.

  Anyway, some of the animals were dying.  It seemed that the animals that were most effected were now suffering the most.  The gorilla was graying, very tired, and near death, and it was at this point that he told one of the scientists all about the aliens' purpose, pretty much.  He didn't say a whole lot, that I heard, and what he did say was a bit on the cryptic side and was of a more (I hesitate to say) spiritual nature.

  In any case, while the gorilla said nothing of destruction, we were not to let them succeed.  It was more of an essence of feelings more than actual words spoken.

  More illogic.  At around this point in the dream, I was looking at a television somewhere in the compound, and there was a news story on, though it was as if it was still back when the aliens were first defeated, before people started forgetting.

  The news story was about the fact that some of the animals had gained intelligence and had become essentially physically perfect examples of their species.  One totally weird part was when they showed this really strange creature that does not exist in real life, but did in the dream world.

  Both sexes of the animal are a bit fat, pretty much hairless, grayish, and relatively smooth-skinned.  Their features are very generalized, in that they are like just a mass with two front, fat, short, stumpy legs with feet, and a small almost elephant-like nose only about 6 inches long, but about an inch and a half from the end, it quickly widens to become part of the rest of the head, and it has a somewhat elephant-like mouth.

  IF it has eyes, then they are constantly hidden under eyelids that don't open very well.  Understand that they have no hind legs (that I noticed), and no tail, and the distinction of the features was mainly due to their placement in relation to each other.

  The female of this creature is fatter, and about as tall, and maybe as long, as a large dog.  She's very calm and usually is always lying on her side doing nothing.  The male of the species is about as tall and long as a large house cat, though fatter, and he is very hyper and constantly moving "around" the female.

  Here's the really weird part.  I know it's for more than one reason, but what they are, aside possible for mating, the male keeps crawling into and out of the female.  The female has a natural slit in her skin, but instead of it being a pouch, it actually goes to the female's internal organs.  The male, being so much smaller than the female, crawls completely into the female's body.

  Okay, so the aliens are back, and it's been only about a week.  It might not have happened the first day, but the previously super-powered people got their powers back (except me, for some reason).  Some resistant official and the French organization once again gather all the heroes, and they make a small presentation to some normal humans.

  About six or seven of the best heroes (including the Ferris wheel guy) line up in front of a small collection of people on a concrete patio of a cafe.  These six or seven are like the generals of different "armies" of super heroes.  They're being presented to show that we're ready to fight back, but it's all done in relative secrecy.  I mean, they're not really sneaking around, but the aliens are not aware of the returned powers.