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Alien
Seven
dreamers
.
You
must
understand
that
they
were
not
professional
dreamers
.
Professional
dreamers
are
highly
paid
,
respected
,
much
sought
-
after
talents
.
Like
the
majority
of
us
,
these
seven
dreamt
without
effort
or
discipline
.
Dreaming
professionally
,
so
that
one
’
s
dreams
can
be
recorded
and
played
back
for
the
entertainment
of
others
,
is
a
much
more
demanding
proposition
.
It
requires
the
ability
to
regulate
semiconscious
creative
impulses
and
to
stratify
imagination
,
an
extraordinarily
,
difficult
combination
to
achieve
.
A
professional
dreamer
is
simultaneously
the
most
organized
of
all
artists
and
the
most
spontaneous
.
A
subtle
weaver
of
speculation
,
not
straightforward
and
clumsy
like
you
or
I
.
Or
these
certain
seven
sleepers
.
Of
them
all
,
Ripley
came
closest
to
possessing
that
special
potential
.
She
had
a
little
ingrained
dream
talent
and
more
flexibility
of
imagination
than
her
companions
.
But
she
lacked
real
inspiration
and
the
powerful
maturity
of
thought
characteristic
of
the
prodreamer
.
She
was
very
good
at
organizing
stores
and
cargo
,
at
pigeonholing
carton
A
in
storage
chamber
B
or
matching
up
manifests
.
It
was
in
the
warehouse
of
the
mind
that
her
filing
system
went
awry
.
Hopes
and
fears
,
speculations
and
half
creations
slipped
haphazardly
from
compartment
to
compartment
.
Warrant
officer
Ripley
needed
more
self
-
control
.
The
raw
,
rococo
thoughts
lay
waiting
to
be
tapped
,
just
below
the
surface
of
realization
.
A
little
more
effort
,
a
greater
intensity
of
self
-
recognition
and
she
would
have
made
a
pretty
good
prodreamer
.
Or
so
she
occasionally
thought
.
Captain
Dallas
now
,
he
appeared
lazy
while
being
the
best
organized
of
all
.
Nor
was
he
lacking
in
imagination
.
His
beard
was
proof
of
that
.
Nobody
took
a
beard
into
the
freezers
.
Nobody
except
Dallas
.
It
was
a
part
of
his
personality
,
he
’
d
explained
to
more
than
one
curious
shipmate
.
He
’
d
no
more
part
with
the
antique
facial
fuzz
than
he
would
with
any
other
part
of
his
anatomy
.
Captain
of
two
ships
Dallas
was
:
the
interstellar
tug
Nostromo
,
and
his
body
.
Both
would
remain
intact
in
dreaming
as
well
as
when
awake
.
So
he
had
the
regulatory
capability
,
and
a
modicum
of
imagination
.
But
a
professional
dreamer
requires
a
deal
more
than
a
modicum
of
the
last
,
and
that
’
s
a
deficiency
that
can
’
t
be
compensated
for
by
a
disproportionate
quantity
of
the
first
.
Dallas
was
no
more
realistic
prodreamer
material
than
Ripley
.
Kane
was
less
controlled
in
thought
and
action
than
was
Dallas
,
and
possessed
far
less
imagination
.
He
was
a
good
executive
officer
.
Never
would
he
be
a
captain
.
That
requires
a
certain
drive
coupled
with
the
ability
to
command
others
,
neither
of
which
Kane
had
been
blessed
with
.
His
dreams
were
translucent
,
formless
shadows
compared
to
those
of
Dallas
,
just
as
Kane
was
a
thinner
,
less
vibrant
echo
of
the
captain
.
That
did
not
make
him
less
likable
.
But
prodreaming
requires
a
certain
extra
energy
,
and
Kane
had
barely
enough
for
day
-
to
-
day
living
.
Parker
’
s
dreams
were
not
offensive
,
but
they
were
less
pastoral
than
Kane
’
s
.
There
was
little
imagination
in
them
at
all
.
They
were
too
specialized
,
and
dealt
only
rarely
with
human
things
.
One
could
expect
nothing
else
from
a
ship
’
s
engineer
.
