If you die in your dreams, will you die in real life? Freddy Krueger in A Nightmare on Elm Street seems to think so. A Nightmare on Elm Street, as well as its parade of sequels (of...varying quality, but we'll get to that) taps into a ...See moreIf you die in your dreams, will you die in real life? Freddy Krueger in A Nightmare on Elm Street seems to think so. A Nightmare on Elm Street, as well as its parade of sequels (of...varying quality, but we'll get to that) taps into a certain primal fear of the unknown. Sleep is one of the little deaths in our life. We surrender ourselves to forces we don't truly understand, where we then are bombarded with symbolic narratives as our brains keep firing while our bodies rest. The simple question of "if I go to sleep, what if I don't wake up?" is one that every child has asked their parents. And there's that long standing urban legend that if you die in your dream, well, your real life body will follow.
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