Speaker 1: Dream Sequence is a production of iHeart Podcasts, Blumhouse Television,
Speaker 1: and Realm.
Speaker 2: I started dreaming about Manifold again. What do you mean again?
Speaker 2: I never told you why I really came home seven
Speaker 2: years ago? Why did you? I? I want you to
Speaker 2: go to Brookdon What the fuck's in Brooklyn? Con kN
Speaker 2: What the fuck is CONN?
Speaker 3: What exactly does the Conspiracy Convention have to do with
Speaker 3: dream Sequence?
Speaker 2: That's what I asked.
Speaker 3: What does she say?
Speaker 4: Pack your bags whatever? It's probably better than listening to
Speaker 4: nightmares all night. What's your road trip thing?
Speaker 2: You want music? No music? You want to talk? Or
Speaker 2: should I just drive and shut up? How can I
Speaker 2: make this trip as painless for you as possible?
Speaker 3: It's your car, You're the one driving. Let's do your
Speaker 3: road trip thing.
Speaker 4: I appreciate that. I want a talkie road trip. Then
Speaker 4: I want this to be like the road trip equivalent
Speaker 4: of a slumber party, pillow fight. Honesty and conversation. It's
Speaker 4: my favorite thing. Tell me anything, talk about.
Speaker 3: Whatever, you know what.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 3: We're gonna have a fun trip.
Speaker 2: Just arrived in Brockton. The hotel's about a mile away.
Speaker 4: You know when a city gets fire bombed and there's
Speaker 4: all those sad photos of people taking tub baths on
Speaker 4: top of rubble.
Speaker 2: For some reason, this city is not that. But it's
Speaker 2: a little too close.
Speaker 3: That's so mean.
Speaker 4: You're right, it was. I take it all back. I
Speaker 4: love Brockton. I want to move here.
Speaker 3: Is that guy wearing a shirt saying the Earth is flat?
Speaker 4: It's con con, baby. You gotta get your concon speared on.
Speaker 4: And up is down, black is white, people are lizards.
Speaker 3: Earth being flat isn't a conspiracy theory, though, it's just
Speaker 3: dumb that one's provable and well documented.
Speaker 4: Morgan, no offense, But if you think too hard about
Speaker 4: some of what you're about to hear, it's gouldn't be
Speaker 4: the very long weekend for you. I'm k Kraft, I'm
Speaker 4: here with Morgan Beck and Silky Johnny Lamb.
Speaker 2: Is that your real name?
Speaker 5: It is here?
Speaker 2: How do you mean we.
Speaker 5: Don't give out our real names here.
Speaker 6: We're not stupid.
Speaker 2: What are you afraid will happen?
Speaker 5: Remember when we found out the government really was spying
Speaker 5: on us, we're surprised.
Speaker 2: I was too young.
Speaker 3: I remember it. I was surprised.
Speaker 5: You know who wasn't people who go to Conkong. There
Speaker 5: was a guy here had been talking about it for years.
Speaker 5: His name is Marin Wade. Guess where he is now?
Speaker 5: Where No one knows? He should have used an alias.
Speaker 5: Don't you think lots of history started his conspiracy? Tuskeygee,
Speaker 5: Iran Contra. It's kind of scary to think about, isn't it?
Speaker 2: What not?
Speaker 5: Everyone here is.
Speaker 2: Mister raper White.
Speaker 7: It's mister rapier Wit. Did they misspell it?
Speaker 2: Someone played a prank on you?
Speaker 7: That's not funny.
Speaker 2: Let me fix your name, Tack.
Speaker 7: Thank you.
Speaker 2: It brings you to concon.
Speaker 7: The nanobots that are giving us all cancer.
Speaker 2: That's why people have cancer. Nanobots.
Speaker 7: It's obvious if you think about it.
Speaker 2: So I just thought about it, and it still doesn't
Speaker 2: seem obvious to me.
Speaker 3: Do you have cancer?
Speaker 8: No, because I take a whole medicine designed by me
Speaker 8: to cleanse the body of the nanobots one hundred dollars
Speaker 8: a bottle. If you're interested in Matt dang it painful death,
Speaker 8: the bots come out and your pee no, thank you?
Speaker 4: Well, I think we can classify mister rapier Wit as
Speaker 4: one of the wrong ones.
Speaker 3: Have you noticed we're just about the only two women here. Yeah,
Speaker 3: why do.
Speaker 2: You think that is crazy. Shit is kind of more
Speaker 2: of a guy thing.
Speaker 6: Welcome to concon. My name is Dellahan. Not really, but
Speaker 6: you know what I mean. I'm here to talk about
Speaker 6: the events of May seventeen, seven years ago. Does that
Speaker 6: date mean anything to anybody? Yes, you in the back.
Speaker 8: My daughter died that night, she was thirteen.
Speaker 6: Thank you for sharing anyone else? Yeah, my brother had
Speaker 6: a nightmare so traumatic he never fully recovered. Thank you.
Speaker 6: I lost my wife that day. What happened that night?
Speaker 6: How come some people were attacked in their sleep and
Speaker 6: some people slept fine? Why did some people die and
Speaker 6: some didn't. I'm not here to give you answers to
Speaker 6: those questions because I don't have them. I wish I did.
Speaker 6: All I can tell you is something happened, something strange
Speaker 6: and for some fatal.
Speaker 2: And this is Morgan. She's an engineer on the team
Speaker 2: i'm documenting.
Speaker 6: So this is for your podcast.
Speaker 4: No, I'm not working on that at the moment. I'm
Speaker 4: working on this new thing and I'm not entirely sure
Speaker 4: what it's going to be yet, and it might not
Speaker 4: even be public for another decade.
Speaker 6: And it doesn't matter. I still like the attention.
Speaker 2: What do you do I mean, like, besides con.
Speaker 6: Con, I'm a librarian by day and a crazy newspaper
Speaker 6: clippings and strings around the room guy by night.
Speaker 2: Cool. So May seventeenth, your wife died.
Speaker 6: Her official cause of death was a heart attack. She
Speaker 6: was twenty five, she was healthy, she had no pre
Speaker 6: existing conditions. The doctors couldn't give me anything close to
Speaker 6: an explanation. I joined a grief support group where I
Speaker 6: met a widow. Her husband also died in a sleep
Speaker 6: from a mysterious heart attack on the same night. I
Speaker 6: started looking into it further, found even more similar stories,
Speaker 6: and now here I am at concon.
Speaker 4: Let's say we're trying to classify conspiracies. In one sentence,
Speaker 4: what do you.
Speaker 6: Believe something's alive in our dreams?
Speaker 2: Bold claim? Not the first time I've heard it.
Speaker 6: I didn't come into the concon phase of my life quietly.
Speaker 2: What's the something?
Speaker 6: What is it? I can't tell you what it is.
Speaker 6: All I can tell you is what it does. It
Speaker 6: can give you vivid nightmares that stay with you in
Speaker 6: the daytime, where you start to crumble mentally because your
Speaker 6: dreams are so real, there's no difference between them and reality.
Speaker 6: That's one thing it can do to you. There have
Speaker 6: been a lot of suicides by people who claim to
Speaker 6: see this figure in their dreams. I think for some
Speaker 6: people it possesses them. I mean possessed as a charged word.
Speaker 6: But when you go to sleep, you lose control of
Speaker 6: your body, and this thing can make people do and
Speaker 6: say things that they just wouldn't do.
Speaker 3: That's just a neurological disorder. The reason we don't move
Speaker 3: in our sleep is at the ponds and medulla are
Speaker 3: sending signals to our muscles, telling them to relax. If
Speaker 3: those signals aren't sent, we act out our dreams.
Speaker 6: But what if there was something that could cause that
Speaker 6: neurological disorder? And how do you know so much about sleep?
Speaker 3: I thought you're an engineer, an engineer specializing and equipment
Speaker 3: related to sleep disorders.
Speaker 2: What else?
Speaker 6: Obviously it can kill you.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I just don't believe that.
Speaker 6: Well, maybe you would if you'd been through it. I'd
Speaker 6: been through.
Speaker 2: My parents died that night. I have grief credentials too,
Speaker 2: if that's what you mean.
Speaker 6: Wait, your parents died that night, not.
Speaker 2: Because of some entity in their sleep.
Speaker 6: Do you know that? Yes, were you there when it happened? Yes,
Speaker 6: a moment of death. No, And how do you know.
Speaker 4: Because of the coroner's report that did not list cause
Speaker 4: of death as mysterious entity?
Speaker 6: But how well do you really remember the whole thing?
Speaker 2: Not well?
Speaker 4: Because my sister drugged me and my parents until we
Speaker 4: were all losing our minds.
Speaker 6: So do emoxy bate nevoxen. How'd you know that she's
Speaker 6: trying to save you from it?
Speaker 4: You can't play god with people's lives just because you're
Speaker 4: the smartest person in the room.
Speaker 2: Two out of three of us dying kind of proves
Speaker 2: my points.
Speaker 6: A lot happened that night sounds to me like your
Speaker 6: sister was ahead of it.
Speaker 2: Can you understand why I'm anoyed right now?
Speaker 6: Can you keep a secret? Who the fuck of these guys?
Speaker 4: Wait?
Speaker 6: Give them your gunkin names?
Speaker 3: Moreanism, the Morganism, Rip Fan Single, and this gentleman is stabber.
Speaker 6: Don't worry, he assured me his nickname was not based
Speaker 6: on any past grind I said, it wasn't based on
Speaker 6: any past conviction.
Speaker 2: That is a very important and distressing distinction.
Speaker 6: Just don't stab anybody, all right? Everyone here is cool.
Speaker 6: We're all cool. Morganism and Rip Van Single are sleep experts.
Speaker 6: They'll know more than I do. Tell them what you
Speaker 6: told me there, Ci, it's your ass. My wife was
Speaker 6: having these nightmares and she was talking about a forest,
Speaker 6: and then she fell asleep and I haven't been able
Speaker 6: to wake her up two days.
Speaker 3: Have you taken her to a hospital now?
Speaker 6: Because she said if something like this happened, fine, ulla hand.
Speaker 3: Do you mind if I checking pulse? Does your wife
Speaker 3: exercise regularly?
Speaker 6: Does she look like she does?
Speaker 3: Her resting heartbeat is below sixty Lifting eyelids in rem
Speaker 3: likely dreaming. People's aren't dilated, indicating no presence of drugs.
Speaker 3: No response to external auditory stimuli. Giving a pinch now
Speaker 3: a hard pinch, a very hard pinch, no response to
Speaker 3: pain stimuli. This is in a deep sleep. It's a coma.
Speaker 6: So what do I do?
Speaker 2: The fuck?
Speaker 3: Has she been talking?
Speaker 6: Nah? What does she say?
Speaker 2: My name? He didn't say rit Vance, my real name.
Speaker 6: She might just be saying the letter or trying to
Speaker 6: say okay.
Speaker 2: Oh really. This is the part where you get skeptical.
Speaker 3: People in comas don't speak, But you said it. I
Speaker 3: know what I said. It's not a deep sleep. It
Speaker 3: must not be a coma either.
Speaker 6: Then what is it?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Argon all right, this is getting a little too creepy
Speaker 4: for my daste.
Speaker 3: She shouldn't know where in the room. She didn't respond
Speaker 3: to any stimuli to day.
Speaker 6: What is she talking about?
Speaker 2: I don't know. Your mother's forgotten you, and she won't
Speaker 2: remember you again.
Speaker 3: I think we should leave, did Sadie?
Speaker 4: Will you up to this?
Speaker 6: I didn't know that guy before today? You think I
Speaker 6: want to spend any more time with a guy named
Speaker 6: Stabber than I need to.
Speaker 3: He couldn't fake this?
Speaker 2: What then?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I'm getting a fucking drink, surprised of sitting next to me,
Speaker 4: not offended.
Speaker 2: If you don't want to pay it, record away. What's
Speaker 2: your name? Roach?
Speaker 4: Of all the names, everyone else picks school name, so
Speaker 4: I picked a gross one.
Speaker 2: I respect that. Do you have a podcast, don't we all?
Speaker 2: I'm thinking of the one that blew up a few
Speaker 2: months ago.
Speaker 6: It has scrabble and then you have to tell a
Speaker 6: story about your life that revolves around the word you play.
Speaker 2: And if you're scoring, the round is worse. You have
Speaker 2: to take sip. You're thinking of Gwen Gibbs.
Speaker 3: You're not Gwen Gabbs.
Speaker 2: I was Queen.
Speaker 4: Gibbs before Gwen Gibbs. Was Gwen Gibbs that scrabble show
Speaker 4: you're talking about. I did it three years before she did.
Speaker 4: Long story, whatever doesn't matter. Luckily, I'm working on bigger
Speaker 4: things than a scrabble show now.
Speaker 6: So what brings you here?
Speaker 2: My sister? Where's your sister? Are you a reporter or something?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Are you from Knicks Tech? What?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: I just saw a girl alone and thought we could
Speaker 2: enjoy a drink and have a nice.
Speaker 3: Normal chat.
Speaker 2: You can't. You're certainly making it.
Speaker 7: Difficult, but I think we can get past that.
Speaker 3: You're in my seat, all right, I'm going.
Speaker 2: Damn. Didn't know you had that in you.
Speaker 3: You would have done the same for me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but in more of a beta way.
Speaker 3: Did you know my mother has Alzheimer's?
Speaker 2: Sadie told me years ago.
Speaker 3: She Sadie promised me she'd cure it. That's why we
Speaker 3: started our business. She's being honest. At the time, I
Speaker 3: don't doubt that. After your parents died, she told me
Speaker 3: we needed to change our focus to sleep disorders. She
Speaker 3: told me this was where the greatest good was. I
Speaker 3: felt like she was doing me to end up like
Speaker 3: my mother. Hey, there you are, and need you both listen.
Speaker 6: To me very carefully and do exactly what I say.
Speaker 6: Excuse me, get off the stool and follow me to
Speaker 6: the parking lot. I'm not being a creep. Distress me.
Speaker 6: Let's go.
Speaker 7: What was that?
Speaker 6: I'll tell you when the parking lot, come on?
Speaker 2: What the hell was that?
Speaker 6: After you two left, I went back in the stabbers's
Speaker 6: room and mid sentence, his eyes closed and he just
Speaker 6: fell down asleep, just like that. And then he said,
Speaker 6: you better run. George that's my real name. Someone saw
Speaker 6: me leave his room too. You didn't do anything, I know,
Speaker 6: but it's fucking con con People saw you with me
Speaker 6: earlier too. I think it is best if we all
Speaker 6: just get out of here.
Speaker 2: Fine with me? This town is truly a shithole.
Speaker 6: Year take this. It has all my research, Red fan single,
Speaker 6: it was a pleasure. And let me be straight up
Speaker 6: with you. I think you're very attractive. I think you're
Speaker 6: very smart. I want to know more about you. This
Speaker 6: isn't a sex thing.
Speaker 2: Are you fucking serious right now? Yeah?
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, you're right. Let's get going. Hello.
Speaker 2: Your wife must have been a lovely person. She was,
Speaker 2: she really was. You went through all of it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I lied to you when I said I didn't
Speaker 4: know what Stabber's wife was talking about when she said,
Speaker 4: listen to the tapes.
Speaker 2: I've kept them for seven years. I have to do something.
Speaker 2: What face the fire?
Speaker 3: Mom?
Speaker 2: Check out? What said? He got me? What do you
Speaker 2: think you're being recorded? I think I'm really happy to
Speaker 2: have you both home again.
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