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Originally Posted by Roger Slater
Quick check says you're probably right. Weird, I could practically picture the scene with Sigourney. But it's been decades since I've seen it.
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Roger, I have seen the four Alien films. The first came out when I was a University first-year student; I eagerly went to see it several times, mostly because of Sigourney Weaver, and had magazine posters of the film on my bedroom wall. I have seen the sequel twice. So, if I may..
Your memory is not at fault!
Yes - and as I see Mark already confirmed - there IS a scene, in Aliens (the second film = first sequel to Alien),
in which Ripley - attempting to recuperate, following prolonged hypersleep (suspended animation) on her journey back - is shown experiencing with horror an alien bulge moving beneath the skin of her chest - but then wakes up. It had been just a nightmare of PTSD. This experience seems to sway her to join - after all - the proposed mission back to the planet, where contact has been lost with a terraforming colony now well-established there. She has realized that such nightmares will haunt her, regardless, so better to face her fears through direct action than futilely attempt avoidance.
Once on that planet, with space marines, an alien is seen to burst from a woman found embedded - and at first thought to be dead - in alien exudate encrusting a wall. She has been preserved but dies soon.
In the third film - Alien3 - Ripley actually does suffer an alien parasite but chooses to plunge to her death, grasping it as it emerges.
All horrible stuff (and the fourth film is even more gross, in my view). But I think those two or three scenes suffice to explain what you recall seeing.
Ah, we're getting ready for Halloween at limerick corner, I see. 
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