"I Don't Dream at All"

"I’ve come across people that have no imaginations at all, and it’s a very interesting… .

I was shocked the first time I came across it. 

And — because I just assumed everybody had an imagination.

And when you — you confront somebody who doesn’t, especially a child, it’s a very interesting and profound thing to me. 

It — an imagination is a — is a trait, you know. 

It’s like anything else. It’s a — it’s a — it’s a talent, or it’s an ability you have to cope. 

Like Dreaming."

- George Lucas

David: 

It must feel like your God abandoned you.

Dr. Elizabeth Shaw: 

What..?

David: 

To lose Dr. Holloway after your father died under such similar circumstances. 

What was it that killed him? Ebola?

Dr. Elizabeth Shaw: 

How do you...? 

How do you know that?

David: 

I watched your dreams.

Kane :

Some awful dream about.... 

Smothering..?

Newt:

Can I dream?

Ripley :

Yes, honey. 

I think we both can. 

Sleep tight.

Newt :

Affirmative.

While she is unconscious in the prison's medical bay, Ripley has a nightmare about being stalked through the Sulaco's hypersleep chamber by a Xenomorph. The Creature grabs her from behind and pins her to the top of Hicks' cryotube, and actually rapes her as the Corporal grins at her through the glass.

"I was in cryo, right? On my way to Xarem, right? Work crew for the nickel refinery, right? I wake up... I know, I don't understand. Oh God, I... I saw... I saw horrible things."

―Purvis (from Alien Resurrection)