a dream of alien invasion and jail

I wonder if this will be my last dream of 2022? It was unusual in that I kept returning to it after waking repeatedly.

Read more of the dream in 3 parts...

Aliens invaded Earth. They arrived in massive ships in the sky, all around the planet. I was in a car with 4 people. We were leaving a major metropolitan area. Ray weapons from the huge ships were destroying military vehicles who were shooting back at the invaders. The ray also hit the car we were in, but it did no damage. It felt [within the dream] that the ray was also a sensor of some kind, determining if the target was a threat or not, then it left non-threats unharmed.  Why would they want docile humans undamaged?

I think I woke briefly here, disturbed by the dream panic I was feeling. I quickly recovered and fell asleep again.

There was a motel on a small highway, and we stopped there for the night. We watched and listened to news reports. There were 3 kinds of on-foot invaders: humanoid reptilian, smaller otter sized creatures (like "trained dogs" almost) that could fold themselves into weird shapes and tight spaces, and large (larger than a beachball) round dumb plant-like creatures that launched a glob of substance at a target that would envelop it and subdue it.

Other people in the motel were frantic. We were on the 2nd floor, and somebody was trying to use a photocopier in an office space but they were having trouble with it. I traced the electrical cord and noticed movement of the cord. It was being withdrawn into the walls. Somebody (those otter aliens, obviously) were in the crawl spaces between walls and floors. They were removing infrastructure to prevent communication and power. I ran back to my room. I saw a reptilian dragging away somebody, many doors down.

[this part is vague because I was waking up] Somehow one of the blobs got into my room and threw one of the gas bags that enveloped me. I was trapped.

I woke again from the panic, and quickly recovered and fell asleep again.

I was in a makeshift detention area with other humans. I think it was originally a farm of some kind? The equipment looked "agriculture industrial" anyway. We never saw aliens here, but they kept food incoming. We were responsible for self-policing behavior. A levitating robot of some kind would make inspection tours. I was in a rush to clean up a handwashing basin before it saw the mess there. Later, somebody was insisting that we needed weapons and used one of the machines in the building (something meant to kill pigs?) to create one for himself, and injuring himself with it in the process.

[I know more happened here, but I've already forgotten most of it, like all of my dreams usually evaporate immediately upon waking.] None of my original 3 companions are housed here with me. I followed a child to a breakfast "pen" and poured myself some orange juice after they finished with it. There was oatmeal available too.

It was morning, the cat was roaming around the bed, and I woke up normally here an hour or two ago.