ET- Dreams

  He closed his eyes and immediately a beam shot from his forehead and out through the roof. The little replicant beam streaked through space, into the spiraling arms of the galaxies, through the ominous shadows of the nebula, past the million mighty suns, and down to Earth, into an all-night pizza parlor. The replicant fumbled around, wondering what it was doing in the anchovies, then corrected its trajectory and streaked off down the block toward Elliott’s house.

  Elliott, asleep, felt his own dream suddenly expanding, into an ever-widening sphere, inside of which he stood, gazing at curving walls. He peered through the thin sticky membrane and saw that he was floating above the bright lights of a city. Then suddenly the bubble rose higher, the city grew smaller, and a gravelly voice croaked, “Have some Gum.”

  “E.T.!”

  The dream bubble popped, and Elliott sat up in bed in the lonely darkness.

  “E.T.,” he said softly, but there was no one there.

- E.T. The Book of the Green Planet, chapter 5