The reader will learn to recognise aliens, discover their characteristics, and learn how to fight against them.
Dream 4. Aliens and public transport.
Dream 4. Aliens and public transport
Aliens feel very at ease on public transport. They are confident that a person caught in their net has no way out. Their confidence is not wholly unfounded. Someone unfamiliar with the local public transport system and not very familiar with the area has very little chance of escape.
All sorts of tricks are used.
One of the most common is as follows. You enter an underground station and are met by a large crowd exiting the subway. The impression created is that the station is, for some reason, closed. You follow the crowd, trying to figure out what's happened, and as a result lose vital time. You're late, and it's all your own fault. You opted not to make your way down to the trains--which went on happily running to their normal timetable.
Other techniques are employed, for instance, changing the signs saying which way the trains run. We use them to get our bearings; they're important. You check the arrow and get on the train ... but actually travel in the opposite direction. If you don't know that branch of the underground, you'll be carried some way from your destination while you're still figuring things out.
I'd like to touch on another Alien trick. This is a method of exerting psychological pressure on you so that you get on the wrong bus. Here's how it goes. There are two bus stops next to each other. A large queue has formed at one of them, and a bus hoves into view. You're a bit late for your bus. You run up, join the queue, and get on the wrong bus. By the time you've worked out what's happened, you're somewhere completely unfamiliar, and once again have no time to do whatever it was you caught the bus to do.
The trick of changing the direction signs is also used where there are stops on opposite sides of the road for buses with the same number. The goal is the same: to confuse you and throw you into a panic.
It's worth noting that to the aforelisted methods Aliens' often add an uncanny ability to change street and house nameplates in the blink of an eye. The moment the work of influencing us is done--blink! They've switched the signs back to where they were.
If you manage to sidestep all the aforementioned traps and let yourself relax a little, you still have a couple more snares lying in wait for you. Beings from a parallel world will start by trying to pin your attention to your mobile phone so that you overshoot your stop. If that doesn't work, they use hypnosis to put you into a deep sleep. You'll find yourself waking up at the terminus, having slept straight through your stop. This method is not used very often, since not many people get this far. Most fall into the traps mentioned above.
The overall impression created is that Aliens are capable of sending modern city-dwelling people into a dizzy spin, just as in olden times all manner of unclean powers used to befuddle our ancestors in the forests.
English translation Copyright Richard Coombes 2021