I just had this weird elaborate dream which was loosely based around some characters in tv’s Smallville. In it, there was this bad dude who we had killed before, but who had somehow come back to life. So me and Clark and my friend Aron were in this room figuring out how to kill this dude once and for all. And he was in there and invisible and trying to stab us. But then he slipped, and all three of us stabbed where we thought the guys eyes would be, and were, then he became visible and died. Then like some weird person who was his attendant came in and gave us white rags to mop up the blood and asked us what to do with the remains. And we said burn it.

But the guy was somehow not dead yet, and then he went after Lana. She didn’t know he was following her and she went into this cave and started changing into this big green reptilian alien that looked like it was made out of computer graphics. In the cave, two of her friends who were girls were also there and had also turned into aliens, except they were brown. The bad dude followed her in there too, and also turned into an alien. I think black. And there was one other male alien in there like him.

Each person/alien had this little container full of these like jewels or crystals. Actually, no. The two males each only had one jewel in their containers. But the girls had a bunch. The containers were ordinarily kept inside of this hollow cavity inside everyone’s chest, which was covered by this fleshy door.

Apparently the bad dude had known all along that Lana was an alien like him as well. But he said something about how she tricked him and he thought she only had one jewel like he did. At this point I was looking through Lana’s eyes. And then she stole his jewel out of his container, and also stole everybody else’s jewels and put them in hers. And they all started to die because of it. Then Lana left the cave, and started to morph back into a human. As she did so, the container with the jewels turned into a big black bucket which was full of rock candy. She/we knew that the normal people weren’t allowed to see the jewels and that’s why they had morphed into the candy.

Then she went back to the house, where the bad dude’s mother and other people were, and explained to her how she was so sorry and had seen her son die in the cave. At this point, she produced all these shark teeth and sand and said she saw her son kneeling in the cave, and then a boulder fell on his face. But like maybe the boulder had shark teeth in it or something? I’m not sure. And Clark was in that room too and said he saw whatever it was had happened with the sharks, which was very vague at this point.

Anyway, then I woke up. I just remembered during that re-telling that I had a dream earlier in the night wherein I was in the ocean either swimming or on a boat and a gigantic shark ate a smaller shark. The shark looked like it was out of that new animated movie Shark Tale.

Oh, also, the immediate correlation that springs to mind as far as the crystals which the alien people store inside their bodies is how Mircea Eliade talks about how shamans traditionally are supposed to have had certain internal organs replaced by quartz, which they can later produce at will for magical purposes.

Restoration to the physical body, as Eliade demonstrates, nearly always involves the building of a new spiritual body, whether through being consumed and regurgitated by spirits, being stirred in a boiling pot and pieced back together, having the brains washed and/or replaced, or having bones replaced by magical materials such as quartz crystal or diamond. The South American Cobeno shaman, for example, is said to replace a novice’s brain and eyes with crystals, which then become the initiate’s “strength”. The crystal body or skeleton is seen in Australian, Siberian, and Pacific Northwestern shamanism as well, according to Eliade.