[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]
[CRICKETS CHIRPING]
[FATHER SIGHS]
[EXCLAIMING IN ANNOYANCE]
[UTENSILS CLATTERING]
Honey, it's family hour,
there must be something on.
DAUGHTER: Oh, wow, Candied Critters!
[FATHER EXCLAIMS]
Oh, Great. It's Monsters, our favorite show!
[MONSTROUS LAUGH]
[SHUSHING]
It's starting.
[MONSTROUS LAUGH]
[FATHER CHUCKLES]
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
[THUNDERCLAP]
[GROWLING NOISE]
[FAINT RINGING OF BELLS]
[GROWLING]
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
Who is it? MEGAN: It's me Alex. Open up.
Hi.
Are you all right?
Look.
[GASPS]
Things are getting worse.
Yeah. No kidding.
No, don't sit there. Why not?
Look.
How long has it been like that?
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
Since this morning.
Oh, and check this out.
It's my softball trophy.
Happened when I was trying to sleep.
It's a couple of inches lower.
You still can't get any sleep?
No. Not a wink.
It's been two weeks, Megan.
Two weeks since a mugger knocked me on the head.
I haven't been able to sleep one minute.
I'm losing my mind.
That's the only explanation. I'm hallucinating.
You're not hallucinating, Alex.
I see this stuff too.
Really? I mean, you're not just saying that?
No. Believe me, okay?
Maybe that doesn't mean anything.
Maybe I'm imagining you too.
Alex, calm down. No.
Really. Everything is gonna be fine.
Look, everything I've read about sleep deprivation
says I ought to be ready for a padded cell by now.
Now, Alex, calm down, okay?
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
[CLOCK TICKING]
Does that feel like a hallucination?
I have a very vivid imagination.
[TRAIN RATTLING]
I think we better get out of here.
It won't do me any good. It follows me where I go.
Well, we got to do something.
I'm gonna go call Kyle Tonker.
Oh, that idiot?
That idiot has a Masters in Psychoanalysis
and he knows a lot about para physical phenomena.
I'll right back, okay? You try to relax.
[SCOFFS] Relax.
Right.
[LASHES SOUNDING]
[FAINT VOICES OF CHILDREN]
Alex.
Oh, thank God you're here. tell me you see her.
See who?
But she was there.
Look. Just calm down, Alex.
Maybe you just thought you saw someone.
In cases of sleep deprivation,
hallucinations can be very common.
[ROARING SOUNDS]
[BOTH EXCLAIM]
Maybe you should sit down, Kyle.
Don't sit there.
It's still bleeding.
If I hadn't seen that with my own eyes...
Um, Megan said these, er,
events have something to do with a head injury you suffered?
Yeah.
I'm not tired. But I haven't slept in 15 days.
[CLEARS THROAT] And, er,
these phenomena started then?
Er, no. It started a few days later.
Just little things.
You know? Objects appearing, disappearing.
Things moving around.
And at first I thought it was my imagination.
But then I realized that other people could see it too.
And then things got worse.
Worse? How?
What happened?
I don't know, uh...
I popped the top on a soft drink.
And it screamed.
And then, once my,
shoe started tap dancing without me.
MEGAN: Tell him about the chicken.
Oh, the chicken. We ordered fried chicken,
and when we opened it,
it was, it was, it was melted.
Like syrup.
This is extraordinary.
It's fascinating.
What caused the head injury?
Er, I was, er,
I was mugged in the subway, actually.
This guy, he pushed me up against the wall,
and knocked me unconscious.
[LOUD EXPLOSION]
MEGAN: Alex, watch out.
God! When is this gonna stop?
Only you can make it stop.
KYLE: This is really one for the text books.
Don't do that. Why not?
I'm not sure. I just, er, know that it's dangerous.
MEGAN: What's in there?
Mist. Smoke.
I think I saw something moving in there.
What's on the other side of this wall?
It's supposed to be a janitor's closet.
MEGAN: What's going on? Do you have any idea?
Yes, I think so.
All of us need to dream.
It's nature's way of dealing with the dark,
bestial side of ourselves.
Your accident rendered you unable to sleep.
And therefore unable to,
discharge your psychic energies by dreaming.
And now, the fear and rage in you
are leaking into the real world.
This is crazy. I don't believe this.
Seeing is believing, Alex.
You're Catholic, aren't you?
I'm not a practicing one anymore.
What has that got to do with anything?
But, but you went to parochial school?
Yes. Is there anything else you'll like to know?
Alex, he's just trying to help.
But if he really wants to help,
why doesn't he tell me
how to stop these crazy things from happening.
Listen, Alex.
Aborigines and other primitive people
believe the dream world is real.
As real as this one.
So what are you saying? I'm saying, that,
its possible that your subconscious has created,
a portal into the land of dreams.
KYLE: A way to physically deal
with your subconscious fears and hates.
But I don't hate anyone.
Everyone has hidden hates and fears, Alex.
You've been given
a unique opportunity to deal with yours.
[LOUD EXPLOSION]
[ALL GROANING]
MEGAN: Are you all right?
Argh. Ah. Except for my ankle.
What's going on here?
The Aborigines also believe
that it's possible for things and people,
to travel from the real world to the dream world.
Well, let me get this right.
You're saying that, that crack leads to the land of my dreams?
Yes.
And that you can enter it,
and maybe find a way to put a stop to all this.
[WIND BLOWING]
I don't know.
Maybe.
ALEX: It feels right.
I don't know why or how, but it just, it does.
You are not going alone.
Megan, no. You can't. Yes, I can, and I am.
End of discussion.
One more thing.
In a lot of the stories about the dream world,
those who enter it, often encounter
a doppleganger, or dream self.
And I have to find this dream-self?
That's it, isn't it?
The dream-self is the one who can stop all this?
It would seem so.
What do I do once I find it?
Unfortunately, the legends are rather vague on that point.
[EXPLOSION]
[BOTH SCREAMING]
[DISTANT LAUGHING]
You all right?
What do we do now?
I was hoping you had some suggestions.
Where's Kyle? I thought he fell in with us.
Guess he didn't make it.
[YELLING] Megan!
Where are we?
I don't know.
Hey, look at this.
I had this when I was three years old.
Hey, it broke.
What kind of place is this?
Hey! Oh, man. Look at this.
ALEX: I had this when I was five.
He was a lot smaller. My brother stepped on him.
It's a number two pencil.
I always used number two pencils.
Hey, crayons.
I love crayons.
Hey.
[SOFT INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING]
Megan? Is that you?
What's in there?
Er, nothing.
[LAUGHS HESITANTLY] Uh...
Come on. Let's, let's go find that dream-self
that Kyle mentioned. Come on.
[INDISTINCT CHANTING]
This way.
Man...
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
Careful.
[KNIFE CLICKS]
Jump!
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[EXAGGERATED MUSIC BEATS FROM THE STEREO]
[TRAIN RATTLING]
ALEX: That's the guy from the subway!
Run.
Run!
Get off the curb.
Let's get outta here.
ALEX: Sit down.
KYLE: Megan! Megan!
Megan, there are just dreams, remember that.
Nice try, Alex.
But I know better than that, and so do you.
Your dreams are real, Alex.
And unless you do something about it,
they're gonna kill you and me both.
Now, come on.
MEGAN: What's wrong?
ALEX: Sister.
Oh, my God. Stop it.
Are you gonna follow it?
I've got to, Megan. That's the key to all this.
[INDISTINCT VOICES]
[TRAIN RATTLING]
Come on. Say something.
[MUSIC INCREASES IN TEMPO]
[GRUNTING]
[COUGHING]
MEGAN: Alex!
Alex!
[COUGHING]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
You're cold.
I feel weak. I feel like,
something's been drained out of me.
And it's trying to consume me.
Alex, don't you see,
you can't destroy him without destroying yourself.
What are you saying?
He's the irrational part of you.
He's the fears and the hates that you keep inside.
You can't exist without him,
anymore than he can exist without you.
So what am I supposed to do?
You've got to accept him.
Let him become a part of you.
He is just as scared of you as you are of him.
Just try.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
[TRAIN RATTLING]
[CAT MEOWS]
[TRAIN WHISTLING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
He's gone.
It worked.
[LAUGHS IN RELIEF]
We did it.
[SCREAMING]
[HEAVY WIND BLOWING]
You're back. I knew it.
How are you? Fine.
Are you okay?
Oh, yeah. I'm fine. My ankle doesn't hurt anymore.
Oh, good. So, it, er...
It looks you solved your problem, Alex.
Yes.
Do you feel any different?
Yeah, more, er, more whole, sort of.
And sleepy.
Ah, look, before, before you go to sleep,
would you mind, both of you,
please writing out everything you saw
MEGAN: Tomorrow, Kyle.
MEGAN: Thank you so much. No really.
MEGAN: Kyle tomorrow. Bye.
Now,
now I'm gonna make your dreams come true.
Alex.
[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]