This was a weird one....
[Note: While there is clearly one thing that pertains to covid, I put this here, as it's not uncommon for me to have alien-body-snatcher-type dreams]
I was living in a small town and some alien fungi decided to hover over it and release spores to turn everyone into mushroom people. Somehow, myself and a friend weren't affected. We realize that we can blend in and pretend we're one of them so we don't get forcible turned.
Just off the main area of the town, there's a room. In the back of the room are two glass doors that lead out to the wilderness beyond. We figure that as night falls, we can sneak through the room, out the door(s) and hopefully get away. We do exactly that. It's a dark, weird semi-forest and we hike for ages until we come across a giant river blocking our way. Turns out Canada was on the other side and we realized that even if we could cross the river, we wouldn't be allowed in (obvious covid/travel restrictions thing).
We turn around and we're maybe 100 feet from the glass door(s) we left through. We start heading back and my friend reasons that we could set up a garden/farm in the wilderness and live there, away from the alien fungi/mushroom people. I point out how close we are to the center of town.
We decide to try again the next night, but there's some sort of vicious, half-dead dog-thing guarding the doors. I grab my friend and tell him we need to go through town and get out the other side. We pretend to be mushroom people long enough to steal a school bus. Turns out there's a kid in a wheelchair who never got dropped off at school. We agree to let him out on the way, but I warn him that he'll be turned into a mushroom person too. He doesn't care, just doesn't want to miss class. When we drop him off, I see dozens of school lunches alongside the road, left by mothers because their kids forgot to take them that day.
Before I get back in the bus, I look up and there are hundreds of military aircraft in formation right above the town. Most are dropping these green glowing spheres which crack open and release a gas once they hit the ground. I realize they're fumigating the town to get rid of the alien mushroom menace. I take one more look at the sky and there's a single blue bomb being released.
I know exactly what that is, so I jump back into the bus and tell my friend to haul ass out of town. We're on the outskirts and the whole time I'm looking back, waiting for what I know is a "tactical nuke" to go off. It was in the air as we left so it should be any second. No boom. Then I realize that in movies, if you want to see an explosion, you have to look in the rear view mirror. I do so and immediately see a mushroom cloud. I say, "That's it. They nuked the town." End dream.
There's one final thing that bugs me though. Somewhere, towards the end of the dream, this quote came to me. I don't know how to explain it, but it felt like it came from outside of that particular dream.... "How can you be sure that the other stars [in the sky] are not gods unless you wage war on them?"
Anyone heard a quote like that from anywhere?