Compare elements of my dream with info in this article (minus movie-watching lesbians and an old man who hates going to Mexico but needs to cook food):
http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/coll
I think that the spring-things looked more like virii than bacteria, but I can't find any info on magnetotactic virii and they were refered to as worms in the dream. Weird things that get into the subconscious mind, I tell ya...