Its rare I get a dream where I am completely clueless as to the meaning, perhaps therein is the point.

*When I tell this please focus on the symbology not so much the setting, and the possibility I didn't create this dream at all.

Aliens on a Station

Movie aliens, from the 80's movie. A small group of humans had to hold the line on a station to keep them out. If they got in they colonized the earth, or began the colonization process, then it would become a whole different game.

I pictured primal energies at this point, dark space station setting, small rooms, low light.

I was a in black sludge trench on the station, swimming in the dark water, trying to get my balance. On the other side of the door were the aliens trying to get in, the monsterous ones from the film. I couldn't see them yet, the film characters were over there, out of sight too standing guard.

One of the soliders then called that if they got by us, they colonization process would begin, and it would be a different game entirely. I pictured a green energy plane, being colonized by foreign life forms, not so much a planet but definitely something very vividly bright, forest green colored, primal is the only way I can describe it. The pieces on its landscape were sandstone structures, stalagmites from caves hanging down, bright sand colored, foreign to what i've seen on Earth. The energy was moving like a fluxating field.

In my trench where I was floating, a small alien was circling me, it had already got passed the soliders and it was circling around me. It was a tiny black head, with a tail, swimming around me up and down through the water as I turned to try and get a fix on it.

I called out to the soldiers above that one had got passed them, that it was already in the water with me. It was a few moments before anyone came over. Eventually one got rid of it, I think he shot it, and then a larger more monsterous variety arrived, peering over his shoulder as he reached down to help me up, alarmed i pointed up to it and he fired, killing it. It fell into the black sludge water with me, and I tried to get out of the way, as the acid was spilling out of its wounds.

So then I switched to the scene of a female solider walking with an AI in human female form. They were discussing something about AI's, and the role of AI's in removing aliens on the station. The AI gave its perspective and we made additions to it. I was in third person at this point following them, watching.

The AI was going to be reborn over and over till it wiped out the aliens on the station, I moved to first person here, I was programming it to do this, giving it explicit instructions as to its purpose. Though it wasn't as you'd expect, not a blank personality, it was reasoning on its own and I was merely adding to it. The human female AI was now a primal kind of fleshy purple substance, not sickly or horrid, just awaiting its next form. I told it no matter what happened to keep coming back, being reborn, till the station was safe, to use whatever it could find. It was reborn as a black Cat from this fleshy substance, and its first question after being clear of its mission was to ask:

What happened to the male cats who would constantly announce their presence? At first It made me smile a bit. I think it was meaning by smell perhaps, or marking territory. I pictured the orange cat from the movies and said they aliens had killed them all off.

So yes, mildly confused. Cats as our guardian references in here again. Primordial energies being defended by standing guard over a oil like pit in space. AI's being programmed by me to defend us from the aliens, and perhaps never stopping that program, even now? Enough fictional references to AI's being programmed by us and going rogue to support in consciousness I would suppose.

Any thoughts?