My friend and I were watching this talent show, only the only act was this guy I went to high school with and hadn't seen in at least 10 years. (Coincidentally, he looks a lot like Langly.) He was doing some weird monologue that I couldn't really understand, but then he said something about the number 1013. When he said that, I chuckled and I elbowed the guy sitting next to me, who happened to be Chris Carter. It seemed like we were there together, or at least we knew each other, but he kind of looked at me funny and wanted to know why I was elbowing him. Then the guy on stage said 1013 again and Chris asks, "What's so funny about that?" I said, "Geez, Chris, it's your birthday!" And he just shrugged.

Then all of a sudden we were watching the filming of an episode and not the talent show, and we were going down this hallway and Chris was telling me about how they were setting up the shot and that it was important that they filmed it so that Mulder and Scully would be in all the shots together and that they needed to be together all the time. And I just knew that he loved them and that he'd never separate them.

So there you have it...the only dream I've ever had staring The Creator. I know that there was a lot more of just hanging out with CC and some other friends, but I can't remember any details about that. I can only hope that he's as nice in real life but that he at least knows his own birthday.

Monica's response to Barb: Well Barb, we must be operating on the same wavelength...scary eh? <g> ...earlier this year I had a similar dream. Around the time when there was a lot of conjecture about DD or GA leaving and rumours of replacements, I had a dream where DD, GA and CC showed up at my old workplace (gotta love dreams...they don't ever make sense!! <g>) and I sat CC down and gave him a long talking to about how important it was for us philes to have DD and GA in the show and how many of us watch it purely for the interaction between M&S first, and the storyline second. Unfortunately I woke up before I knew I had him convinced. <g> (I would mention I had an encounter with DD in this dream... but that's not for this list!! <eg>

November 8th had finally rolled around, and I was sitting down the watch the premiere with my family. After the teaser, the opening credits began but were entirely new. They were nothing but a poorly veiled Star Trek rip-off.

The visual was similar to the TNG solar system view except done in silver and black, and the audio was a warmed-over DS9 theme. I was livid. It seemed they'd even changed the name of the show to "X-Files: Five Generations." Why? I couldn't tell ya. But, here I am screaming and whining to my entire family, and my dad tells me to write Chris Carter and complain. I'm like, "Yeah, that would do a whole lot of good."

And, so, basically, that was the extent of my dream. I know it's pretty weird. But apparently my apprehension about the rumored changes in the new season are affecting me more than I thought. :P ::twitch twitch::

Maybe regression hypnosis would do me some good. <g>

I had a dream that Mulder and scully were walking around in the woods and they came across a tent in a clearing, Mulder went in it and it started shaking. Scully started to open the door to the second room of the tent when Mulder came out in a bathing suit with alien heads all over it, wearing sunglasses and hold suntan lotion. Scully started to say "Mulder" but then he said, "Dana, call me Foxy." And Scully smiled and they went into the tent together. Inside the tent was the beach.

I had a strange dream last night wherein I was reading Thesis Proposals from various XF characters, including CSM and Skinner (this is something I have to do occasionally-- well, from students, not from XF characters--and not something I particularly relish, as they are generally so bad! Oh, well...). Anyway, CSM was insistent that I read his. He kept saying, "But you're in it..you're in it...you'll really like it," and I kept running from him and Skinner, saying "I don't have time, I don't have time right now..." I have no idea where Mulder and Scully were, because I would have read theirs! <g>

In this dream, Mulder and Spender were lovers on the run, sort of like Bonnie and Clyde. It started out with a love scene, and I just wish it hadn't been so explicit - I saw more of Spender's anatomy then than I had ever wanted to *Shudders*. After that there was a chase scene with lots of explosions, and then the alarm went off and I woke up.

Incidentally, I've been having alot of trippy dreams lately. It all started when I dreamed I was going Christmas decorating mad and stringing up lights on everyone's houses. Somehow a big spider got caught in the lights, and so he ended up covered in Xmas lights. And it wasn't just some old knot of lights - they were carefully wrapped around each one of the spider's eight legs and around its body. It was really weird. Ever since then they've been a little odd...

I dreamt that I was a stand-in of some sort for Gillian Anderson (which of course is impossible, since I'm Asian), and I was on the set of XF. I was definitely not GA herself, but for some reason they asked me to act for her for the duration of the current episode we were filming. I got very giddy about it and started reading the script (of course, I don't remember any part of the script right now). I remember acting in a couple of scenes (which is also eerie, since I've never acted before and hate public speaking), and that it was all very natural for me. Yes, DD was there, but I don't remember what the dialogue was like. One scene I remember we had to do was DD and I running out of a building in rain. The last thing I remember about the dream was the make-up person reapplying my make-up, which was really annoying because she wasn't very gentle about it and when she was done I felt like I had a thick mask on my face. I was about to scream at her when I woke up.

Weird Krycek dream. Point of view: participant and voyeur.

Setting - a nice hotel, not too fancy, but definitely upper class.

Krycek is on a mezzanine level of the hotel, talking to a guy with mouldy teeth who is trying to get information on Mulder from Krycek. In fact, the man himself is going mouldy, and Krycek worries he might start going mouldy himself and tries to back away into a small cupboard to escape. Eventually he gives up getting away and tries to kill himself by throwing himself down a stair well. He is surprised to find that he has no injuries, and asks the Concierge, who looks like Van Johnson, if it was a dream. Van Johnson says "yes, relatively".

Details: His arm has grown back from "Terma," although he doesn't know why, and as some modern fashion statement he has had some emerald studs embedded along the line of his jaw. Very pretty, like shiny green freckles. He's wearing a baggy white shirt, black vest (waistcoat) and black jeans.

In the foyer of the hotel he meets up with some people he has never met before, but are partners of Mulder's, a dark-haired woman and a fair-haired man - both of whom look like Japanese Anime characters. At first they try to kill him, then realise he saved their lives (how? I don't know) and they decide they want information from him. He gets away from them, goes outside - saying he wants to visit his children and grandchildren - although he only suspects these children exist, it could be only he believes they are clones, or he has read about them, or perhaps, he is just throwing Mulder's partners a red herring.

It's day time when he leaves the foyer, but night time as he hits the pavement.

He starts to fly, just kind of floating a little over the ground. It's a busy street, possibly in Toronto, near that street with the museum to Bata shoes. Some balloons have been released - advertising some new product, and he flies too high - pushed up by the balloons as they soar. He tries to fly back, but the black night with no stars make him confused, he's worried he'll fly into space.

Luckily he finds the earth lights, and soars over some cattle, yelling "boo" to spook them into running. He thinks this is as close to alien cattle mutilation as he'll get.

He's in country farm land, no detectable city, and feels uncomfortable out of the city environment. He sees a house and flies down to it to ask for directions. It turns out during the few minutes he was airborne he traveled to Australia, some outback country town starting with 'W'.

The people in the house think he's crazy when he tells them he was in Toronto minutes ago. It's a house full of women (mostly up-market housewife types). They more or less accept his prescience, adopting him because he's confused and befuddled, and they like his emerald studs.

He finds a small long black address book in his pocket, on the inside front jacket is a phone number he should call if he's ever in Australia (possibly a gift from the Van Johnson look alike) but it's in code (first letter L, then some numbers), neither he nor the women can decipher it.

He goes outside to watch tests being run on very advanced secret military aircraft. He's nearly hit by a train as he hovers over the railroad tracks. He's fascinated by the planes, but the women don't care about him, nor do they find the fact he floats a few feet off the ground at all strange.

The next day he takes a shower, the shower head is outside of the shower stall, so water gets everywhere, but it's hot and plentiful and he loves it. There are little kids, blond girls about 6 - 10, three of them, who get in with him, so he covers himself with a towel to chat with them.

They go to a shopping centre, and have an American style breakfast of pancakes and bacon with syrup. The place looks like somewhere in South Australia, possibly Rundle Mall.

He is approached by someone asking questions, but it seems the slimy man is more interested in the kids (pervert), than in Krycek. Krycek holds the kids close and hustles them away.

Krycek thinks of staying in the area, not contacting his phone number, because it's peaceful and no one knows he's there to come and kill him.

Then I woke up.

The resident funny-man of the main X-Files mailing list Tom McCown recently had an X-Files dream and told it in the same style of the episode "Breviews" he's known for. Tom has the distinct honor of being the first guy to submit a dream to my site. Reposted with permission.

"Is all that we see or seem
but a dream within a dream?"

I've been waiting for just the right moment to tell this tale, and since the Super Bowl preempted XF last night, this is as good a time as any. I will now breview for you an episode of the X-Files that only I was allowed seen. A few weeks ago I dreamed I was watching this episode and I really enjoyed it, thinking to myself "now I can give a good score to an ep!"

Then of course I awoke and realized it never really happened. But since several eps so far this season ALSO "never really happened," I figure what the hell! This ep answered those who have asked in the past what happens when M & S investigate X-Files that turn out NOT to be X-Files. Broken into four vignettes (each time-stamped at various stages of the series history) "Clotho" gives us an interesting look at M & S in routine investigative mode.

In the first, a young boy claims to have been abducted by aliens, and our heroes investigate. Mulder draws a parallel between this boy and the lad in "Conduit." Ever-practical Scully OTOH suspects a ruse, and proves the boy was merely lying in an effort to get noticed by the pretty girl next door. Scully's satisfied smirk and Mulder's sheepish grin speak volumes as they get back into their rental car and drive off.

In the next segment, a young woman claims to have been raped by a poltergeist. Again Mulder is convinced she's telling the truth, and again Scully correctly deduces she was actually raped by her father and had blocked it out of her mind, substituting the "poltergeist" scenario as reality. This time Scully almost feels sorry for pulling the rug out from under her partner.

In the third segment, we don't actually see M & S investigating an X-File, we see them on their way to investigate one. During the road trip, they engage in a conversation that is pure "Pulp Fiction," even down to Mulder reciting to Scully all the names for aliens used by different cultures.

Finally, they stop to have lunch and run into Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle Maclachlan in an unbilled guest appearance) and during the course of their meal it's revealed that Mulder and Cooper were partners briefly on the X-Files until Cooper was assigned to find the murderer of a young prom queen. Mulder says he suspects it was to keep them separated and away from "The Truth." At this point, Cooper reveals (to Scully's shock and amusement) that Mulder had been married briefly to a porn star named "Montana Wildhack" who looked amazingly like Valerie Perrine. Mulder had the marriage annulled after 3 months. Cooper smiles, Mulder looks embarrassed and Scully's eyes sparkle.

We go to commercial, and upon return we see M & S arriving at the home of a Col. Taylor, who claims to have been attacked mid-flight by a UFO. They meet the officer who recounts his tale, which ends with him ditching his plane which crashes into the ocean. Scully seems to be taken in a bit by the tale, but Mulder abruptly ends the interview and says he will "be in touch." After they have left, Mulder reveals that the story could NOT have been true due to a discrepancy in Taylor's description of the behavior of the alien craft. Disgusted, he gets into the car with Scully, who says "Well, they can't ALL be true, Mulder!" As they drive off, we see Col. Taylor watching from the living room window. He lets the curtain fall back, and walks quickly to a door which leads to the cellar. He goes down the stairs, bends to pick up a steel stiletto-type knife which is lying near a large puddle of green goo. Retracting the blade, Taylor's features blur and he is revealed to be the Mighty Morphin Bounty Hunter. The screen fades to black and the credits roll.

The Good: Nice performances all around. Each segment featured crackling dialogue which ranged from charmingly insouciant to startlingly revealing. Different aspects of our heroes' relationship were showcased throughout, and the rare insight into the reality of the XF we normally do not see (i.e., that they are NOT all true!") was refreshing. Well done!

The Bad: Cooper showing up was kinda fun but also too much like a fanfic crossover. (I half-expected Cooper to ALSO reveal that Mulder had a twin brother in the F.B.I. who was a transvestite!) The ending, while effective, was too cliche'.

The Unforgivable: Why, oh why, does CC insist on so many FART jokes?!

Rating: 4 yaddas out of 5

"I'd rather be dreaming than sleeping.

Just sleeping, you're just as well dead..."