Dream: Space Moose eats our asteroids
May. 2nd, 2026 11:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
infrogmationLast night I dreamed an intelligent alien entity visited Earth. Not landing *on* Earth, but the space nearby - it was huge and nebulous. No one knew what it was nor where it came from. It's transparent shape kept shifting; it was nicknamed "the Space Moose" because one of the first photos showed it in a shape vaguely resembling a moose head with antlers.
Space Moose spoke to Earth, carried on all electronic communication devices, and somehow people without devices heard it too. Space Moose said: "Hello, sentient beings planet! I'm hungry and need to eat. I see your system has a bunch of planets you're not using. So, I wanted to check with you as to which ones it would be ok for me to eat."
A panicked conclave of scientists and leaders decided tell Space Moose that they needed more time to work out an answer, but meanwhile Space Moose could snack on the astroid belt.
Space Moose replied, clearly somewhat annoyed and disappointed, "Very well. Try not to be long."
A giant mouth opened up in space, and over the next couple of days consumed all the asteroids in the asteroid belt. Scientists couldn't figure out what exactly was happening; measuring gravity they didn't detect any mass of Space Moose; the astroids and their mass just seemed to disappear. Scientists were trying to figure out what to ask Space Moose - what was it, where did it come from? How could it be appeased, what part of the Solar System could we sacrifice?
Space Moose came back to above Earth, and said, "The asteroids weren't very much, but some of them were tasty, thanks for the little snack. But really, I need to eat a meal. What have you decided?"
*end of that dream*
I remember part of another dream, I was with some musicians friends with our instruments waiting to play in a parade. Then a horn player friend and I became little boys. But we were still getting ready to play in a parade as child musicians. We went into an ice cream shop, and had vanilla ice cream, because any other flavor might risk messing up our embouchure.
Space Moose spoke to Earth, carried on all electronic communication devices, and somehow people without devices heard it too. Space Moose said: "Hello, sentient beings planet! I'm hungry and need to eat. I see your system has a bunch of planets you're not using. So, I wanted to check with you as to which ones it would be ok for me to eat."
A panicked conclave of scientists and leaders decided tell Space Moose that they needed more time to work out an answer, but meanwhile Space Moose could snack on the astroid belt.
Space Moose replied, clearly somewhat annoyed and disappointed, "Very well. Try not to be long."
A giant mouth opened up in space, and over the next couple of days consumed all the asteroids in the asteroid belt. Scientists couldn't figure out what exactly was happening; measuring gravity they didn't detect any mass of Space Moose; the astroids and their mass just seemed to disappear. Scientists were trying to figure out what to ask Space Moose - what was it, where did it come from? How could it be appeased, what part of the Solar System could we sacrifice?
Space Moose came back to above Earth, and said, "The asteroids weren't very much, but some of them were tasty, thanks for the little snack. But really, I need to eat a meal. What have you decided?"
*end of that dream*
I remember part of another dream, I was with some musicians friends with our instruments waiting to play in a parade. Then a horn player friend and I became little boys. But we were still getting ready to play in a parade as child musicians. We went into an ice cream shop, and had vanilla ice cream, because any other flavor might risk messing up our embouchure.
