This morning in weird dream theater: Dad's house was infested with an 'air cheater'.
An 'air cheater' is an orange-and-white swirly patterned crab with one eye much, much bigger to the other, so huge it can float around like a balloon. It's extremely poisonous -- touch it and die. During the night it follows lights. During the day you're good as dead, as it will see you.
Dad was coaxing it around with his flashlight, but had to do so in short bursts or it would lock onto the flashlight instead of the light spot on the wall and try and come and kill him. My sister and I had the idea to bind it with lasers, which worked a little better than expected - the eye turned pure white, then the whole creature shrivelled, died, and clattered to the floor.
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