23rd of July, 2015.
My name is Olivia Santos.
This video diary will document my research on lucid dreaming.
In these tests, scientific research in the field of lucid dreaming will be explored
and test subjects will learn methods to become conscious in sleep.
This project will explore this state of consciousness and how it can be achieved
every night, for every dream, with 100% accuracy.
The research is conclusive.
Testing begins tonight.
It's going to work.
I know it's important for you.
I need this grant, Nolan.
I can't go back home without it.
Not with my father...how he is.
I really wish I could help.
You know I pay all my test subjects.
I really want to, but I can't.
It's been one year since the accident.
My mother shouldn't be alone.
Yeah, I know.
I understand.
I do.
Well, when I get back, maybe I can help you.
But, Jackson will be good for you.
He has a very good imagination.
Well, imagination is needed for this kind of project.
I have to go now.
I still have things to pack.
And...also...
Oh yeah!
I can't thank you enough for sending this to my mother for me.
It means so much to me...and to my family.
Jackson?
Do I get to eat the whole candy bar?
Yes.
You know, Nolan - he didn't tell me it was gonna be this weird.
You know, like, what is all this for?
Like, is this really gonna help?
For you?
I dunno, but I think so.
The dark chocolate increases alertness, taking effect in the brain even during
sleep. The song, the citrus smell - they're to help induce you into a lucid state.
Then this will track our sleep patterns simply by movement and restlessness...
...monitored by cameras.
Is all of this necessary to lucid dream?
Nope.
But we'll find out tonight which sparks work best for you.
But for me, I can do it independently.
Sparks?
These. These are sparks.
So, uh, Nolan told me that you were gonna pay me every time I do this.
That's right, right?
Yes.
Night one.
- Test subject Jackson Rice has un- - Olivia, do you have softer pill-
Shh!
I'm recording!
Night one.
Test subject Jackson Rice has undergone several treatments to ensure maximum
awareness while sleeping.
Jackson?
Jackson!
Jackson, you're dreaming.
Jackson!
Jackson, wake up!
What do you remember?
What?
Do you remember dreaming anything last night?
Um, no, I don't think so.
What time is it?
Think. Quickly.
Most people forget their dreams five minutes after waking up.
I don't know - can't remember.
Wait. There was one.
There was a rose and it was...floating.
I mean, it was just weird cause it was so real.
But, actually, I think you were there.
What?
I think it actually worked.
What worked?
I've been discovering that there are methods to make people meet intentionally
in dreams.
Literally making two or more people share in the same consciousness.
And I think it just worked.
How could you possibly learn how to do that?
3+ years of intensive break-through research, plus pages and pages of
break-through on living brain activity.
Ignorance is bliss.
Hi! I'm Emma!
I saw your ad in the school bulletin about some sort of project here tonight?
It's paid, right?
Whoa, nice rooms!
You got lucky with Bennett Hall. They have the best dorms!
Then again, you are older, so maybe that's why they put you up in the married dorms..?
You're not married, are you?
Um, no.
You said you're here for the project?
Yeah, is that cool?
Phew, I'm out of breath.
I can see why.
Yeah, I walked up to this floor.
I hate elevators.
Test subject number two, Emma Parks, has joined the experiment.
Tonight, we'll be searching for an anchor point in our dreams.
Wait, what's an anchor point?
A meeting place in the dream world.
A place that we could all imagine.
If we can manage to meet each other in the same dream...
...well, we will have redefined what science has always believed to be true
about dreams.
As I told Jackson last night, I want you to create a sunny bamboo forest in your mind.
Bright and green.
And imagine we're there, too.
Okay, well, see you soon!
Jackson.
Jackson, this couldn't happen in real life...
...could it?
No, I don't think so.
What is that?
What is what?
You don't hear that?!
Hear what?
Okay, okay. Remember: "A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities."
Don't forget it, Jackson!
"A single dream...
...is more powerful than a thousand realities."
This is impossible!
Jackson, it happened! We did it!
- You did it! - We did it!
- How did you do that?! - My research, my research!
No one has ever done this before! No one!
This is impossible!
- My research, my research! - I remember everything...
- Yeah! Jackson! - I remember talking...
It happened! It really happened!
Guys, what did I miss?
That was amazing!
Maybe tonight you'll see.
Hey.
Emma!
Emma?
Is this real?
What do you think?
Wait...
No way.
You're dreaming.
And so am I.
And so is Jackson.
But this feels so real.
If this weren't real...
...I couldn't do this.
What?!
Bye!
This is amazing.
Unbelievable.
Where else can we go?
What else can we do?!
In a dream, there are no limits.
What the heck...?
Oh, yeah!
Can you believe it?!
We did it, Jackson!
There's no way that it's that easy.
I can't believe it.
It happened.
It's real.
You all three were in the same dream and you could remember it after?
If you don't believe me, you can ask them yourself.
No, I believe you.
It's just...amazing.
So - you'll come tonight?
Yes!
What's that phrase?
"Seeing is believing"?
Dreaming is believing.
Nolan!
Nolan.
Nolan!
Nolan!
Nolan!
Come on, Nolan.
Follow us.
Come over here.
- Finally. - Welcome!
Wow, he did it on his first try.
Pretty impressive.
Yeah, but he still looks a little confused.
Wh-what...what is this?
Let me show you.
You can go anywhere you want to go.
You can do anything you want to do.
As long as you can see it, you can make it real for everyone else.
This is...
Awesome?
...impossible!
Try it! Do the impossible!
How?! How does it work?!
If you can imagine it, it can happen right now.
Nolan, Nolan!
(cheering)
Olivia, this is amazing!
I never learned how to swim!
But I can now!
It's amazing!
So guys, where are we going next?
(eager scheming)
♫ I know so many Places in the world ♫
♫ I follow the sun In my silver plane ♫
♫ Universal traveler Universal traveler ♫
I believe the past week has been more of a transition period from subconscious...
♫ Everything is white It's so wonderful ♫
♫ Universal traveler Universal traveler ♫
Hey, guys, I'm filming!
♫ So far So far ♫
♫ So far away ♫
♫ So far away ♫
♫ So far So far ♫
♫ So far away ♫
♫ So far So far ♫
♫ So far away ♫
Good idea.
What is that?
Are you making that?
No.
No I'm not.
Me neither.
Nolan!
Nolan!
Nolan?
Only one other person that I know of has ever done what we do.
But...well, he has been kind of dismissed in the scientific community as a bit crazy.
But he saw what we saw.
That orb.
That light - it fits his description exactly.
So what is it?
I don't know exactly.
His work isn't widely circulated.
People think it was just a hoax.
But, from one publishing that I saw, it seems that it's some kind of portal.
Uh, a portal?
You mean like some sort of Twilight Zone portal or another dimension or something?
I'll talk to him first.
He'll know more about it.
You okay, Nolan?
Just thinking.
What about?
I'm going to see her.
See who?
Vanida.
Who's Vanida?
Are you sure that's a good idea?
I have thought about it.
And I have decided.
Who's Vanida?
It's Nolan's sister. She...
She died.
Last year.
Two blocks from her apartment.
Back in Philippines.
Oh...man.
I'm so sorry.
I'm going to see her.
Nolan, you know that it won't...
Yes, I know.
It is not the same.
It won't bring her back.
But I'm just thinking it would be nice just to see her again.
Even if I knew I was just talking to myself.
Hello?
Are you Dr. Frank Terry?
I'm not a doctor anymore.
Oh, um...
Can I help you?
I'm Olivia Santos.
I'm a researcher on lucid dreaming.
And I've read all of your reports.
And?
I've done it, too.
You mean, control your dreams?
I'm not surprised.
Many people can.
Yes, but my test subjects and I have met in dreams and can recall everything
afterwards.
You can do this...every night?
Yes.
I'd like to meet you.
My research took me to Haiti.
That headdress - it's used for catatonic trances.
Like a witch doctor.
Not like a witch doctor.
You can see the same ritual done by the Haitians all over the world.
The Navajo, the Africans, Amazonians...
They all use different methods but their goal is the same: to control other
dimensions.
Such as dreams.
Ms. Santos, for millenia philosophers have debated the existence of souls.
And if we have them...
...where would they reside?
I've come to believe I have found out where.
In the mind?
Both religion and science point to a spiritual realm.
I saw a burst of light.
An orb - just like you described in your report.
The Door.
Excuse me?
The Door.
It takes you out of the dream world.
Into a place where you lose all control of your dream.
You won't control your surroundings anymore, only your reactions.
Everything is heightened and physically felt...
...even pain.
How could you possibly know all this?
Because I've been there.
How do you get there?
Are you absolutely sure you want me to answer that?
Yes.
You touch it.
It's really that easy?
Do you fully comprehend what I'm saying to you, Ms. Santos?
I'm talking about the opposite of the dream world.
I'm talking about the world of nightmares.
The dreams that we remember the most clearly are the dreams that just truly
terrify us. Have you ever felt pain in a dream?
This is what you're opening yourself up to.
This is opening Pandora's Box.
Why haven't you continued your work?
I've warned you.
- Now I have to ask you leave. - What did you do?
Please, get out of my house.
What have you discovered?
Stop!...
...asking me questions!
That's what a scientist does.
Well, I can see whatever happened, you're not willing to sacrifice it for the sake of
research.
Don't talk to me about sacrifices.
You know nothing about what I've sacrificed.
Ms. Santos.
There are some dark corners that light was never meant to reach.
There are some things that men were never meant to learn.
For the very sake of your soul, you need to stop.
A soul?
What even is a soul?
I'm sorry, Dr. Terry.
But I don't believe in fairy tales.
So you're saying if we go through the Door, we have a nightmare instead?
Yes, but he seemed to believe it was worse than that.
More vivid.
And you want to try to get there?
I'm up for an adventure.
It's just a nightmare, right?
I need to go back to that field.
What?
That's where I met Vanida.
I feel like that's where we need to meet.
You want us to go with you?
If it's too much for you, just come back here.
This can be our anchor point today.
Right.
Don't forget that the hardest part of dreaming about someone you love that's
gone...
...is waking up to find out that they still are.
Yeah, at least I get to dream.
Do you think he'll be okay?
- Emma! - Emma!
♫ Digging a hole and the walls are caving in ♫
♫ Behind me ♫
♫ Air's getting thin ♫
♫ But I'm trying, I'm breathing in ♫
♫ Come find me ♫
♫ It hasn't felt like this before ♫
♫ It hasn't felt like home before you ♫
♫ And I know it's easy to say but it's harder to feel ♫
♫ This way ♫
♫ And I miss you more than I should ♫
♫ Than I thought I could ♫
♫ Can't get my mind off of you ♫
♫ And I know it's easy to say but it's harder to feel ♫
♫ This way ♫
Nolan.
Vanida.
It's really you.
You know it's not really me.
I'm sorry.
Sorry.
Why are you sorry?
It wasn't your fault.
I should have been there.
You can't change fate.
This was going to happen, whether you were there or not.
I miss you.
I know.
Mom misses you, too.
We love you so much.
I know.
I love you all so much, too.
Are you watching over us?
Are you okay now, where you are?
You know I can't answer those questions.
Why not?
Because you don't know the answers to them, Nolan.
I'm not real.
You can't use a dream as an escape from reality.
Hey, Olivia.
Sorry, we...
...whoa!
Is this the Door?
Hey, where's Nolan?
I'm here.
Is it our way in?
I think so.
Are you ready?
(humming)
Hear ye, hear ye!
Come one, come all, to the Circus of Bizarre!
If you revel in abnormal stunts and supernatural sideshows, then step this way!
And witness - the End of the World Circus.
(muttering)
You thought you could escape.
But now you die.
You okay?
Yeah, I...
We should wake the others.
Vanida?
Vanida?!
You too, huh?
This is incredible.
We just actually unlocked another part of our complex psychology.
You shouldn't have woken me up.
But it doesn't matter.
It's okay.
I wonder what else there is to discover. I saw...
Olivia, that was a little too much, don't you think?
What do you mean?
That was no ordinary nightmare, Olivia.
That was too...
...real.
Oh come on, guys.
We knew what we were getting into.
Besides, I saw another orb.
It could be a way out of the nightmare world.
What if it's not?
Well, it looked just like the first Door.
I bet it would take us back into lucidness again.
What if you're wrong?
That's why it's called a theory, Nolan.
It's part of research.
I can't prove it until it's been attempted.
Hasn't anybody done it before?
I don't know.
Probably not.
What about that guy that you met?...
He never mentioned a second Door.
It doesn't mean he didn't see it.
Look, whatever he discovered, we can be on our way discovering, too.
In fact, we're probably discovering more than he had, anyway.
We can do this ourselves.
I don't know if I want to.
What do you mean?
I don't know if I want to do this at all anymore.
What? We can't stop now.
I don't want to have to see those things again.
Neither do I, but we have to.
No, we don't.
It's all part of the research.
- Hey... - What I saw was...
...was just a dream.
What you saw wasn't real.
Guys, calm down!
It was real!
There are horrible things in my life.
Like my sister dying.
That was a real nightmare.
That was hell.
But I didn't have to see it happen.
Until tonight.
That is what your research has given me.
So it's back to the nightmares again tonight?
This used to be fun.
You know, um...
...I don't think Nolan's gonna come tonight.
Let's begin.
I hate storms.
Now, don't forget.
Regardless of how terrifying it might be, do not disturb the others if you happen to
wake up.
Are you sure Nolan's not coming with us?
We don't need Nolan.
We can do this ourselves.
So, Ms. Santos found the Door.
She was searching for it.
And what did she do when she found it?
She said she wanted to touch it, but she couldn't.
It took years, but I finally found it among the Haitians.
The secret to the nightmare world.
The elixir.
It's terribly potent.
I told Ms. Santos this was dangerous.
But she refused to listen.
I suppose she...
...she's made her decision.
Perhaps you can be freed.
Myra.
My wife.
I...I-I'm sorry.
I didn't know that she was here the whole time.
Is she...
...Is she lucid dreaming?
I don't know.
She's been like this...
...for 9 years.
It was fun at first.
We used to dream together.
But more and more she wanted to explore the dark state of the mind.
The nightmare world.
She was more passionate than I was.
Obsessive.
It consumed her.
She talked about seeing another Door.
She wanted to explore it.
She wanted to look deeper into the inner psyche.
I was against it, but as you found out last night, you cannot control the nightmare
world without the ancient secrets.
One morning, I woke up.
But she didn't.
I have to stop them.
My friends. They're in the same danger, Mr. Terry.
Thank you so much for seeing me so late but I have to go now.
You must give Olivia the elixir.
So you can save her.
She can control the nightmare world.
No. If I give it to her she will use it to go through the Door.
No, it will enpower her to leave it.
You must give it to her.
Why?
Nolan, you must give it to her.
I know she'll do the right thing.
No.
I'm going to do the right thing.
Olivia!
Olivia! Olivia!
Olivia!
Hey!
Wait!
No! Wait, wait!
Stop!
Don't go in there.
- You can't! - Stop!
Stop right there!
What is this, Nolan?
Are you trying to stop us?
It's not going to work.
You can't go through there.
That other Door - it's not what you think it is, Olivia.
I don't even know what I think it is.
That is why I want to be the first one to discover it.
Listen! Jackson, Emma - you can't do this.
It's too dangerous.
Olivia, maybe he's right.
No.
No!
Nolan, stop!
You know I need this.
I know. But you can't just...
I can't what?!
What I can't do is to go back home and tell my father I can't pay for his surgery, just
because I was too scared to have a nightmare!
Olivia...it's terminal cancer.
There's nothing you can do.
Why are you really doing this?
What are you trying to prove?
If I can do this, anything is possible.
I can fix anything.
I can do anything.
Olivia, why is there a lock on your gate?
What is the combination?
It's mine.
What's the number, Jackson?
It's, uh, 2-
No! Don't tell him.
I know what you're trying to do.
Don't wake me up.
Don't.
Come on, guys. Let's go.
Jackson...
Hey.
That's weird.
It'll be okay.
Help me.
Vanida!
I can control this.
Olivia!
Mr. Terry?
I'm sorry, Nolan.
What-what are you doing?
I'm doing this for Myra.
I told Olivia what she was getting into.
But her ambition wouldn't allow her to stop.
What are you talking about?
The Door will take Olivia.
But when it does, it'll be for something else.
You want her to go through the Door.
It's the only way.
I don't understand.
Understand this:
it's too late.
Olivia.
♫ Stab-and-Go Radio! ♫
♫ WCAU FM! ♫
Your ears will welcome the sound of one gunshot as one person must die in order for
the other person to survive!
That's right, folks!
One person must kill the other in order to escape this room!
Otherwise, they'll both be stuck in this nightmare world forever!
Who is going to die?!
Draw up a chair for tonight's show, starring Jackson Rice and Emma Parks!
No!
Whoa whoa whoa!
Stay back.
This isn't real...
This-this isn't real.
This is just a dream.
Pain is real, Jackson.
We can feel it here.
Where's the Door?!
No!
Emma, no...no!
I think Nolan might be right.
We don't know where that thing is gonna lead us.
Jackson, we'll be stuck here unless one of us dies.
We are not gonna wake up.
But the Door might take us back out.
Emma, no.
Jackson!
I'm sorry.
2...
...9...
Olivia!
Olivia!
Olivia!
Stop! Wake up!
Olivia, wake up!
Olivia, wake up!
Olivia!
Nolan, help me!
♫ Wondering what's behind the wall ♫
♫ Imagine what's the worst of all ♫
♫ Sometimes I'm scared and so tired ♫
♫ My heart feels so tight with pain ♫
♫ Try to breathe like on a sunny day ♫
♫ Think about the victory day ♫
♫ Don't tell me what I can't do ♫
♫ Only the encouragement if from you ♫
♫ Keep moving forward ♫
♫ Head up and walk ♫
♫ Finding my goal ♫
♫ It may be so close ♫
♫ Keep holding on ♫
♫ But it's getting dark ♫
♫ Now getting darker ♫
♫ And I am too weak ♫
♫ Am I lost? ♫
♫ I'm afraid ♫
♫ I would be stuck in the... ♫
♫ Don't tell me what I can't do ♫
♫ Only the encouragement if from you ♫
♫ Keep moving forward ♫
♫ Head up and walk ♫
♫ Finding my goal ♫
♫ It may be so close ♫
♫ Keep holding on ♫
♫ But it's getting dark ♫
♫ Now getting darker ♫
♫ And I am too weak ♫
♫ Am I lost? ♫
♫ I'm afraid ♫
♫ I would be stuck in the... ♫
♫ ...dark corners ♫
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