I had the wildest dream last night (actually after I went back to bed after pudgepodge and squeezing her out at 5 AM).
Aliens made contact with the earth, and were able to transport humans to their realm. They would leave a clone on earth for people who they transported to replace them while gone - AI driven clones who had the exact personalities so that no one would know they were gone. When the humans came back, the clone would transfer all of the knowledge of lived experience so the person would know what happened when they were gone.
I got transported to the alien universe. I don’t remember much about that part of the dream, except aliens allowed us to hear animal thoughts. At one point, I was rubbing the gummy part of a goat’s mouth behind their teeth, and the goat, with shaking his head, saying “that feels good!” like a goof.
There were other details that I forgot.
Pretty sure there’s a rom-com sci-fi movie in here. 😂