SOLVED. Blue snake alien dreams? [s]

[Steve]

Ok, so I read this book in the mid 80s. I don't remember too much about it, but here's what I remember. There was a group of kids that all grew up together (I think they all had the same birthday too). They never got sick or got head aches or anything. One year I think when they became teens they started getting head aches r nose bleeds or something and they all started to share the same dream, and I think the dream was about creepy blue snakes that could talk. In the end we find out (spoilers, obviously) this grip of kids are aliens. Blue snake aliens. Or something like that.

Hope that's enough. It's been about 20-25 years since I read it and I was 5-10 at the time. I've searched everywhere and no one seems to know. If you can help me you officially won at the intent. Thanks.

[D.M.]

Internet, I may has won it:

Experiment in Terror might be it.

[Ann aka Iftcan]

I found a copy of the book at http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/exper... if you are interested in getting it Steve.

[Steve]

you did indeed! how'd you find that? i've searched everywhere

[D.M.]

Google books (books.google.com) is a large database of them. I typed in "blue snake aliens" and restricted it by date: 1/1/70 to 1/1/90. I was lucky, they used "blue snake aliens" in so many words. second result, checked it against goodreads's database, and here's your book.

It doesn't work all the time sadly, but when you have a unique search "string" like blue snake aliens, it can be surprisingly effective. I'm glad I could find it for you, it looks like a very interesting book and I put it on my to-read list as well.

[Steve]

i tried that. i figured blue snake aliens would not be all that popular and it would be an easy find but it never came up.

i read it when i was young, and i remember loving it, but again, i was young, so who knows. i'd definitely like to read it again.

also, that is the worst title for this book ever.

thanks again.

[D.M.]

No problem, yeah, talk about generic.