Last night I dreamt I decided to watch the original film again, but it had these totally different scenes in place of what actually happens in the movie.
I remember there were the five main kids on a circular rocky plateau with a fire in the middle. My mind told me that this was the equivalent part in the film to when Sharptooth appears for the very first time and attacks. Even though Ducky, Petrie, and Spike hadn’t been properly introduced yet, they were still present in this scene. Curiously, Mama Longneck herself was absent despite her role in the Sharptooth battle in the film proper. In the dream, Sharptooth still showed up to terrorize the kids, but instead there was also this older dinosaur who was a bit like Rooter, and he told Cera to "use the fire." So then there was this random newspaper(!) lying on the ground, and Cera picked it up in her mouth and brought it over to the fire in the center of the plateau. The newspaper caught on fire, and then that caused the area around them to catch fire, which then scared Sharptooth off, and the five kids went running away as well.
Then there was Cera wandering around by herself. I think this was the equivalent to the (brief) moment in the film when she gets separated from her father and calls out to him, but he’s on the other side of the Earthshake chasm. In the dream, she came upon this big grey dinosaur lying there who looked like her father at first and she nudged him, saying, "Daddy?" But then he got up and glared at her and it wasn’t her father after all. A couple other big dinosaurs walked by and stared at Cera ominously, but then they just kept going on and didn’t do anything.
Then the next scene was Littlefoot wading through some tar in this underground cavern area, with either Ducky or Petrie resting on his head, and there was also this dinosaur skeleton they passed under. I’m not exactly sure what part of the film this was supposed to represent, if anything, although my mind told me that the really sad scene where Littlefoot finds his mother after the Earthshake was still coming up. But, alas, the dream ended soon after.
I wish I could’ve remembered more of the dream. It was really interesting to be able to see an "alternate cut" of the movie like that.
I forget when exactly in the dream it happened, but I do vaguely recall one other part with the dinosaur kids singing a song together, which would’ve been interesting as it could’ve meant that this "alternate cut" was a musical like the sequels were.
