Last night (10/17/05) I did not sleep so soundly. Here's why:

I'm observing a man who resembles actor Alan Alda as he looks over a corpse, horrified. An alien being has the ability to enter the human body and eat it from the inside. I see someone running and screaming as a long grayish-white tenticle is sprouting from his arm. The Alda character is looking at a body that's arm is slit open, revealing the bone with no muscle surrounding it.

Then I'm watching a TV mini series in which young people are being either brainwashed or hypnotized into following some "thing" that is hidden. It is not known what exactly this thing is, human--alien being--poltergeist? But it lures one young man to follow it through a hallway of an institution (school?). I'm frightend while watching this, in fear of seeing the cannibal creatures again, but I'm compelled to watch. end

This sounds like it stands for some type of transformation.

Not necessarily a bad thing, it's just that your unconscious will perceive change as frightening.

I found this interesting:

Nightmares of pure terror may be expressed in dreams of gory deaths and graveyard ghouls, and even cannibalism. The author Gustav Flaubert dreamt of a bloody orgy on which he was the main dish, The typical prisoner nightmare, he could neither shout nor move.
http://www.meaningofdreams.org/Bad_D...Nightmares.htm

Good to know I'm not alone.