Speaker 1: Dream Sequence is a production of iHeart Podcasts, Blumhouse Television,
Speaker 1: and Realm.
Speaker 2: Tell me about your sleep paralysis? How long?
Speaker 3: About a year?
Speaker 2: How did it start?
Speaker 4: First?
Speaker 3: I heard them in the hallway giggling in a sort
Speaker 3: of taunting way. And each night they're giggling got closer
Speaker 3: to my door, until one night they opened it and
Speaker 3: I saw them the twins.
Speaker 2: Who are the twins?
Speaker 3: A boy and a girl? But they're like made of
Speaker 3: static and they each have a little knife, And each
Speaker 3: night they get a little closer to my bed.
Speaker 2: The last time you experienced sleep paralysis? How far away
Speaker 2: were they from your bed?
Speaker 3: About three feet? They started whispering to me, saying the
Speaker 3: same thing over and over.
Speaker 2: What do they whisper?
Speaker 3: You won't wake up?
Speaker 2: How long have you been? Sleep walking?
Speaker 5: Off and on? For as long as I can remember?
Speaker 5: But it didn't really bother me until last month.
Speaker 2: Well it's happened.
Speaker 5: I sleep drove, which I didn't even know as possible.
Speaker 2: It's rare, but it happens.
Speaker 6: The scary thought, where'd you drive to.
Speaker 5: My child at home? It's about ten miles from where
Speaker 5: I'm living now. And when I got out, there was
Speaker 5: blood on the grill. So I turned myself out of
Speaker 5: the police and they were able to rule out human blood,
Speaker 5: which was a big relief. But I mean, somebody's probably
Speaker 5: wondering what happened to their dog.
Speaker 7: They talk in my sleep. I can never pronounce the
Speaker 7: word for it.
Speaker 2: Some mniloquy.
Speaker 7: Not as big of a deal as other people's issues,
Speaker 7: but it has affected my life a lot of frightened girlfriends.
Speaker 2: What do you say in your sleep?
Speaker 7: Scary things, apparently, things I never say while awake. My
Speaker 7: last girlfriend broke up with me over it.
Speaker 2: What did she say? You said?
Speaker 7: She wouldn't tell me, she just packed her stuff, wouldn't
Speaker 7: return my calls or texts, and she I, I'm sorry.
Speaker 7: I really loved her.
Speaker 2: Maybe after this is over, you won't have this problem anymore.
Speaker 2: You mean that sincerely.
Speaker 6: What do you do here here?
Speaker 2: It's just your typical sleep center, your monitor. We prescribe
Speaker 2: medicine and tell you not to drink coffee after five pm?
Speaker 2: Do you have health insurance?
Speaker 7: I'm between jobs another recent development. I swear it feels
Speaker 7: like everything's gone to shit in my life. Sorry about
Speaker 7: the language, sir.
Speaker 2: Use whatever language best expresses yourself. Are you aware of
Speaker 2: how expensive a sleep study.
Speaker 7: Is I saved up some money. I don't think I
Speaker 7: can move on with my life until I get this
Speaker 7: taken care of.
Speaker 2: We do have another location, a bit more remote, a
Speaker 2: bit more relaxing, a bit cheaper free.
Speaker 7: In fact, what's the catch.
Speaker 2: The catch is that it's a new method, unproven.
Speaker 7: You're not talking about cutting me open, are you?
Speaker 2: No surgery, no pills?
Speaker 8: What? Then?
Speaker 2: You just sleep and dream and talk to me. The
Speaker 2: idea is that you have this sleep disordered because of
Speaker 2: a psychological issue.
Speaker 7: I've had therapists already. They haven't really, it's.
Speaker 2: Not just therapy. While you sleep, you'll be monitored.
Speaker 7: So it's the same thing, just with added therapy.
Speaker 9: Not recording.
Speaker 10: I don't believe I forgot to record. I never forget.
Speaker 9: So here's what I've learned. The National Center for Health
Speaker 9: Services keeps what's called an NDI, a National death Index.
Speaker 9: Around three million people die in the United States each year,
Speaker 9: so around eight thousand deaths per day. On May seventeenth,
Speaker 9: seven years ago, nineteen thousand people died in the United States,
Speaker 9: over double the normal amount, which makes it the deadlyast
Speaker 9: day in American history. No one talks about it because
Speaker 9: there was no single event to look to. It just
Speaker 9: looks like a statistical aberration.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 9: I've gone through thousands of obituaries of people who died
Speaker 9: that day. Most of them lists the cause of death
Speaker 9: as cardiac rests or SUNS Sudden Unexplainable nocturnal death syndrome,
Speaker 9: which is basically just cardiac rest in your sleep. Obviously,
Speaker 9: the majority of these are caused by cheeseburgers and not
Speaker 9: a killer entity that resides in our subconscious minds.
Speaker 11: And it's just like fucking with us.
Speaker 9: But on this particular day, there's a massive uptick in
Speaker 9: cardiac rests in people under thirty. Something happened that night.
Speaker 9: What's it?
Speaker 11: South just the equipment hitting up. Before I finish the sentence,
Speaker 11: it'll probably be see will it hurt not at all?
Speaker 11: You just go to sleep.
Speaker 6: That's it.
Speaker 11: That's it.
Speaker 7: Promise not to judge me.
Speaker 11: We're not here to judge you, Keith. We're here to
Speaker 11: help you.
Speaker 7: Are you going to be in here with me?
Speaker 11: I'll be right there behind the glass. You have nothing
Speaker 11: to worry about. We're gonna take care of you.
Speaker 12: Thank you.
Speaker 9: Not every story from that night was heart attacks. The
Speaker 9: North Devon Journal on the night of May seventeenth, a woman,
Speaker 9: Kelly Prendez, age fifty five, sleepwalks into oncoming traffic. No
Speaker 9: past history of sleepwalking. The Green Valley Times, May seventeenth,
Speaker 9: West Leads empties his fridge into sleep and keeps eating
Speaker 9: until a raw hot dog lodges in his throat and
Speaker 9: he chokes to death. No past history of nocturnal eating disorder.
Speaker 9: The Vineyard Centennial days leading up to May seventeenth, Lucy
Speaker 9: Jones claims her husband Ray suffered from vivid nightmares.
Speaker 11: For him.
Speaker 9: She says she'd watch him in his sleep and his
Speaker 9: hands would tense up, squeezing as if they were juicing
Speaker 9: two invisible oranges. He'd wake up and start crying. When
Speaker 9: she asked him what he dreamt of, he refused to
Speaker 9: talk about it. On the night of May seventeenth, Lucy
Speaker 9: woke up to Fine Bray, still asleep, strangling their five
Speaker 9: year old twin daughters in their beds. No past history
Speaker 9: of murder.
Speaker 10: It is eleven pm. I've also st up in my
Speaker 10: lucid dream training. The texture of the speedbag is.
Speaker 2: Just pick it up.
Speaker 6: It's not hard.
Speaker 10: How are you today, mister Kingship.
Speaker 8: I'm wonderful Sadie, as I am every day. What a
Speaker 8: blessing is to be me?
Speaker 12: How are you wonderful as well?
Speaker 8: Look it up? Two vocabularies, only one adjective between us.
Speaker 8: Do you play crossword City?
Speaker 10: I do not.
Speaker 8: You should.
Speaker 10: I don't have time. I'm too busy making money for you.
Speaker 8: The thing about a crossword is it's multidisciplinary. It's a puzzle.
Speaker 8: You're using the facts in your head, your knowledge of
Speaker 8: the game, and your own intuition. You can beat it
Speaker 8: even though you don't have the answers. You don't like puzzles, No,
Speaker 8: aren't your pursuits a puzzle? Source? Understanding nightmares?
Speaker 10: Human lives are not a puzzle to me.
Speaker 8: It's always so funny to me? What conversations?
Speaker 10: Why is that?
Speaker 8: As if you don't know why?
Speaker 10: I have a patient waiting for me.
Speaker 8: Okay, I'll let you get to it, and little are
Speaker 8: finishing this conversation. I'll be annual visit.
Speaker 12: When good luck for your patient, Sadie.
Speaker 10: Heath's lips are shortened to move isolate to mic I
Speaker 10: want to hear what he's saying on it. You're a
Speaker 10: weak stared activity in the hypothalamus.
Speaker 8: M h.
Speaker 6: Uh uh I think he's dreaming about you.
Speaker 11: Shut up, you're blushing and you're a child.
Speaker 7: I want to go out sometime.
Speaker 6: Hmmm, pretty, here's the grammar of your usual dates.
Speaker 11: I'll have you know that no one asked me out
Speaker 11: on dates?
Speaker 6: Was that a comeback?
Speaker 13: Maybe after we're done with that, we can play a game.
Speaker 13: We can see what breaks first. My fists are your face.
Speaker 6: I want this guy out of the building first thing
Speaker 6: tomorrow morning.
Speaker 10: Relax, be a professional. Turned down his mic. I want
Speaker 10: to hear the dream. Stop stop leave?
Speaker 8: Hi went.
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 8: Well?
Speaker 9: Last story. On May seventeenth, April, Everett started having nightmares.
Speaker 2: Out of the blue.
Speaker 9: She finds herself waking up in an intersection, and another
Speaker 9: time she was on the edge of a cliff, so
Speaker 9: she asked her husband to watch over her. One night
Speaker 9: he watches her. She climbs the stairs into the attic
Speaker 9: and she pulled apart all these boxes of junk, and
Speaker 9: then she finds art supplies she isn't touched in years,
Speaker 9: and she paints a dark figure in a forest, and
Speaker 9: they put the drawing in the article. I texted it
Speaker 9: to Josie for comparison, but she hasn't replied yet, so
Speaker 9: we'll see April's nightmares get progressively more intense. She tells
Speaker 9: her husband there something alive in her dreams. She used
Speaker 9: to fight it. That was the last time she ever
Speaker 9: spoke to her husband. She went to sleep that night
Speaker 9: and never woke up a coma. She shows no signs
Speaker 9: of lucidity beyond frequent panicked breathing. She's been enduring a
Speaker 9: seven year long nightmare.
Speaker 11: Sorry, I still had the volume up from his mic.
Speaker 10: Eight subjects now, all of them.
Speaker 6: Doctors used to be equally confident in the efficacy of
Speaker 6: blood letting. It doesn't.
Speaker 10: Everyone's skepticism is getting very tiring at this point.
Speaker 11: Isn't that Eliza mazonstream it is?
Speaker 2: Josie streams.
Speaker 12: That's not possible.
Speaker 10: His brain waves don't make sense. He's fully awaken to
Speaker 10: sleep simultaneously.
Speaker 11: Something's wrong.
Speaker 10: We need to see where this goes.
Speaker 2: He's stalking again.
Speaker 7: Not here again, please anywhere about here?
Speaker 2: This place is hell.
Speaker 11: Where's it take you?
Speaker 8: Not us?
Speaker 12: No, no, no, we have to wake him up.
Speaker 10: The guy who just drummed about killing you.
Speaker 11: He's not in control, but I am. If something happens,
Speaker 11: I'm holding you responsible.
Speaker 10: Do what you have to do. Andrews.
Speaker 2: You hear that right, He's in the forest, just like
Speaker 2: the others.
Speaker 4: Holding up with glue and duct tape. Two weeks ago.
Speaker 9: I thought dreams were just dreams. Now I don't know
Speaker 9: if they're a different plane of existence, or if I
Speaker 9: share these dreams with other people, or there's a monster
Speaker 9: living in them.
Speaker 14: Or what you So remember Stabber and his wife from Conkon.
Speaker 10: How are they doing?
Speaker 8: Not great? They're dead.
Speaker 10: I have a theory.
Speaker 4: Maybe it's a hypothesis.
Speaker 9: Hit me, it's preparing. It's like us carbo loading before race.
Speaker 9: There's the people at Hongkon, the dream sequence patients, and
Speaker 9: who knows who else. This is how it builds up energy.
Speaker 9: It's how it eats. In May seventeenth is right around.
Speaker 8: The corner seven year anniversary.
Speaker 10: Hang on, I'm getting another call.
Speaker 9: I have to take it.
Speaker 4: Josie.
Speaker 9: It's good to hear from you. Do you get my text, Josie,
Speaker 9: say something.
Speaker 14: I'm in the forest again.
Speaker 10: Turn on the dream Hannah.
Speaker 2: Barra, Shohn Breads. Those are our first three patients.
Speaker 8: Hector and.
Speaker 13: Eli's am amazing.
Speaker 2: Helen pose there's no way for him to know their names.
Speaker 6: Chelsea Sadie what's going on?
Speaker 10: I don't know.
Speaker 6: It's time to pay your debts?
Speaker 10: Are you asleep?
Speaker 4: I'm not getting out this time, Josie.
Speaker 9: Listen to me. You need to wake up.
Speaker 14: I'm in the forest. I'm in my room in the forest.
Speaker 14: There are others in my room. There's a knife, weak up,
Speaker 14: juicy for so many more than last time. It's not
Speaker 14: time for them yet, but it is time for me.
Speaker 14: Time to pay up, or I'll be here forever.
Speaker 9: Talk like that. You're scaring me dad.
Speaker 14: After all? Okay, it was never my dad.
Speaker 9: Wake up.
Speaker 14: He's gonna kill your sister. He has a knife too, Manifold, No, Heath.
Speaker 7: Sadie, goodbye, Craig, goodbye.
Speaker 11: And seriously, Sadie, what's happening?
Speaker 10: I said, I don't know?
Speaker 2: Crab?
Speaker 6: What is he saying, Sadie?
Speaker 2: Crab? Sadie Crab.
Speaker 10: I'm gonna wake him up.
Speaker 11: Oh, now that he's saying your name, Sadie, where's Sadie?
Speaker 12: She's waking up?
Speaker 2: Heath, what's wrong?
Speaker 10: Get away from me, Heath, drop the knife.
Speaker 4: Please don't kill me.
Speaker 10: He's not awake. Okay, his eyes are closed. He's not
Speaker 10: in control.
Speaker 6: But do I do?
Speaker 2: Good Bye?
Speaker 10: Actor, stay calm as he's sick. Goodbye, no Jo, Okay,
Speaker 10: don't look.
Speaker 4: You don't want to see Josie.
Speaker 12: I have to call Josie.
Speaker 11: She's in danger. Josie, wake up.
Speaker 15: Goodbye, Josie, Josie, Josie, you're listening to dream Sequence Written
Speaker 15: and created by Andrew Martin Robinson, directed by Dave Beasley
Speaker 15: and John Brooks.
Speaker 1: Executive producers are Molly Barton, Dave Beasley, John Brooks, and
Speaker 1: Marcy Wiseman for Realm, Alex Williams and Trevor Young for
Speaker 1: iHeart Podcasts Chris Dicky and Noah Feinberg for Blumhouse Television.
Speaker 1: Producers for Realm are Fred Greenhoalge, Marcus Thorne, Bagala and
Speaker 1: Rhoda Bayessa. Associate producer Michael Colter. Starring Jesse Case and
Speaker 1: Alice Kremmelberg, with performances by Shalini, Bethina Einer, Gunn, Nick Osborne,
Speaker 1: Winifred Anne Kincannon, Tara Brown, Emily Barry, Linelle Scott, Shannon McClung,
Speaker 1: Dave Huber, Hugo Armstrong, Cooper, Tomilson, Joel Haberley, Simaj Miller,
Speaker 1: Dean Simone, and Brian Finney. Additional Voices by Patrick Higney,
Speaker 1: Fred Greenhoalch, John Brooks, Christina Telesca, and Kaylan West. Casting
Speaker 1: by Sunday Bowling Kennedy and Meg Mormon Production manager Devin Shepherd,
Speaker 1: Production Coordinator Angela Yee. Dialogue editing by Corey Barton, Sound
Speaker 1: designed by Rory O'shay and Dan Powell. Final mixed by
Speaker 1: Kaylan West. Original score composed by Marcus Thorne Pagala Songs
Speaker 1: for Josie by Kaylan West. Recorded at Real Voice Los
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