Anyone else dream of detailed, alien designs or creatures?

[PaulKH]

I had a long, complex dream last night that I didn't feel like writing out, mostly because so much of it was lost by the discomforting sequence that happened at the end. I was chatting with someone about the scourges of alien creatures (invasive ones, is the feeling I get, trying to take over our area). I raised my hand to gesture and noticed a small one on my arm, burrowed in. It had the torso design and size of a wasp, but instead of poison, it had a numbing agent so its victim wouldn't feel it there, and its "body armor" was more segmented, more like that of an insect-sized armadillo (and similar dull clay color). Its wings were folded tightly to the body so not to attract attention, and as I pinched it to pull it away from my arm, I saw the head of it...it was like a leech yet not as soft, with what I knew were lots of tiny teeth for latching on and (I guess) sucking blood at a slow enough rate not to be felt. I was repulsed (grossed out), of course, yet I was reluctant to kill it, so I just held it between my fingers, wondering what to do with it as it squirmed and I woke up. Truly bizarre critter, and in such detail as to boggle the mind! Other than just for mind bending-expanding giggles, what could it possibly have been for?