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I had a strange dream last night. It wasn't just the situation in the dream that was strange, it was the whole setup of the dream.

To start with, there was a great deal of "background" to the dream that I can remember even now, but that I never actually dreamed in the first place. I also woke up with the knowledge of what happened "after" the dream, in the dreamworld (that's a first, for me). The dream itself seemed pretty short, basically consisting of landing on another planet, but there is a lot more information left over than just the experience of the landing. Follow?

So I dreamed I was in a space craft heading towards a planet that looked remarkably Earth-like (big blue oceans with green continents). I was a member of some deep-space exploration team, and we had travelled for quite a long time to get to this planet. It was special, in that it was the nearest planet to Earth that we could detect which had water vapour in its atmosphere. So we were sent out to find out why this planet was special.

At the start of the dream we were already receiving radio transmitions from the planet, though not directed at us. I remember listening to it on the space-ship's radio (lol, it was a Sony CD player in the dashboard) and hearing strange voices. It was a big deal for everyone in the ship, and I was pretty worked up over hearing the alien voices. We landed on the planet in this field, that looked remarkably like a corn field. I remember for a moment I thought I might be in a movie, because it all looked VERY Earth-like but had a fake cardboard-cutout quality to it all.

Then the aliens appeared...and they were all humans. They were just as shocked to see us as we were to see them. They were aliens, but they were exactly human in form and action (it was only their language we could not understand). The main sequence of the dream ended there, in utter confusion, to be followed by a short narrative of sorts (I get this sometimes, at the end of dreams. once I even had movie credits scroll past). It basically explained that our scientists (from both planets) determined that life had arisen on both of our worlds INDEPENDANTLY, but that evolution could only follow a specified path to intelligence, so we both ended up with the same form of intelligent life (humans). We shared very similar animal and plant life, as well...with generally only minor differences. The last thing I remember in the narrative was a voice saying something like "the DNA is universal".

I'm quite sure that was the end of it all, but when I woke up I could remember more than just the experience of landing and the narrative. The scientists also discovered that all individual parts of existence are universal. When you take matter and separate it into clumps, the clumps will all evolve towards the same end - so that only very minor differences remain in the end. The essential core is the same, throughout all existence.

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