A woman I know has an alien friend. She's furry, rather canine, but purrs if you pet her. She's not as smart as a human--she's smarter. But then, her human friend's gifted too. In fact the two are oddly similar except for species--both skinny, nervous, affectionate, smart, sensitive girls. Her hair and the alien's fur are even the same blondish color. Sisters, I guess.

Then I don't hear from them for months. Friends say they went on a long adventure--a quest for something? Then, suddenly, they're back in town. I'm curious to hear their story and call to make a cafe date with them.

I'm there early, so I grab us a table. But the human girl comes in alone, holding a large, furry vase. She sets it with care in a chair, and says "You remember my friend, right?" and waves at the vase!

And it's true. She's changed into this. It looks ceramic, like something poured into a mold, yet it's covered with fur, and feels like the alien girl. I pick up the vase and feel her distinctive aura--warm and sensitive. I wouldn't just grab a human girl and plop her in my lap, but the dog girl always loved to be petted. The vase begins to purr... Feels weirdly sexy, she's getting me hot! Though I won't tell her friend that. Purr, purr... pet, pet.

I worry about chipping her, but her human friend says "Her new body's material strengthens over time. It seems pretty tough now." She has strange markings: spiraling around her sides are sinuous lines of spots, that look like pairs of musical notes--ascending thirds, to be exact.

She's turned into a MUSICAL sculpture?

And can she be turned back?

And then, feeling her purr, I have to stop and ask myself: does she WANT to be?

NOTES NEXT MORNING

• Paired spots:
  1. The Star Trek show Deep Space Nine just killed off a character I liked, Judzia-Dax, a girl with a symbiotic alien inside; she had spots in paired lines on her skin.
  2. Wrote a sappy love song yesterday with a harmony part rich in thirds. If the song is the musical alien in the dream, then my unconscious seems to like the song even if it makes little sense.
• ACTION: Sing it to your music class for the final exam! No one else will be doing original material, but so what?

I sang it. I was terrified. They loved it.

NOTE, 2003:

The vase in my dream, holding this alien girl's soul, looked exactly like visionary cartoonist Jim Woodring's depictions of souls--psychedelic, abstract, vase-like rotifer shapes.

But when I dreamed it, I hadn't yet seen any of Woodring's comics. And didn't for a year or two.

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