Forever Dreaming ( comic story ) Forever Dreaming was a " Doctor Who Magazine " comic strip featuring the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond . Summary . " to be added " Plot . Part 1 . The Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond arrive on a summer beach in the 1960s . Everything is very reminiscent of the British summer holiday , right down to the seaside bandstand . The Doctor notes that it is " almost " too " perfect . Bordering on the " stereotypical . . . " " . Meanwhile , the pair are being watched by the eye of a giant octopus ride called " North Pier " . Unseen voices note that the Doctor ' s mind is unsuitable , as he doubts what is around him , but Amy believes . Amy has a strange feeling that she has been here before when she was a girl . She runs off , pointing out a toy shop around the corner of a building , before she becomes her young self , carrying a red balloon . Her Aunt Sharon reprimands her for running off . Young Amy points out a toy version of the Doctor and the TARDIS in the toy shop window , but Aunt Sharon is uninterested , and leads young Amy away . In the course of doing this , young Amy loses her red balloon , which prompts her to realise that she wasn ' t even born in the 1960s ; she was born in 1989 . The unseen voices note that Amy ' s mind is powerful , and that they cannot allow her to leave . Young Amy yells at Aunt Sharon , saying that she isn ' t really her aunt , until she becomes her older self . The Doctor asks Amy if she ' s all right , to which she replies that she thought she was a kid in the sixties , but it must have been a daydream . The Doctor , alarmed , starts to run down to the beach , saying that they have to get out . However , he steps over a child ' s sandcastle , and becomes himself a sand statue . The statue crumbles , leaving Amy alone . A man dressed in psychedelic clothes comes down from a swirl of colours , saying " Hello there , pretty Amelia . The girl of my dreams ! " Amy asks how he knows who she is . The man responds that they are all in the same dream , somewhere between waking and sleeping . He offers her an ice cream , but Amy has already had one . He says that she can always have it later , because they have all the tomorrows in the world . He says that there is no way back ; the dream they are living in is forever . The man reveals that he too is trapped in the dream , and only Amy can save them , if she turns off her minds and sets herself free . Amy won ' t do anything until the man gives her back the Doctor , but according to the man he ' s " already closed his eyes on the octopus ride . . . " Before he disappears , the man warns of ' The Dark ' . At that moment , everything turns from summer fun to darkness . Stuffed dummies sit where sunbathers previously were , and the bandmembers on the bandstands are a dissolving mess in the rain . From behind Amy approaches five dark suited figures , with rosettes , bowler hats and umbrellas . Amy asks who they are . They say they are " the face in the curtain , the creak upon the stair . . . the shiver down your spine , the childhood nightmare . " Amy runs . The octopus ride has become dark and foreboding . Amy asks herself that if she is dreaming , shouldn ' t she be able to wake up . She asks herself why she can ' t wake up ; and what if she never wakes up ? The unseen voices are revealed to be a collection of formal dressed men in tall chairs , sitting in a circle with dark glasses on . The psychedelic man from before is standing behind them , and everyone is watching an orange glowing orb , the screen to the exterior octopus ' eye . One man says that they have to help Amy , because if she is consumed by the Dark , she will cease to exist . But the psychedelic man says that they can only watch and weep . It is then revealed that the Doctor is among the circle of men . The psychedelic man apologises to the Doctor for what will happen . Amy is cornered at the end of a pier . The five dark - suited men are approaching , and the sea rages below her . Amy says that they are just a product of her imagination , and that they don ' t exist , but the men say that she ' ll have to do better than that . They ask if she is afraid , because the more afraid she gets the more powerful they become . Amy climbs over the pier railing , saying that she isn ' t afraid of them , but one of the men contradicts her . As Amy dangles for dear life from the pier railings , with the sea and disembodied hands wailing below her , the men declare that " everybody ' s afraid of the Dark ! " Part 2 . The Dark try to persuade Amy to fall to her death . Amy suddenly conjures up an ice cream , one that she ' s always loved since she was three years old . The Dark do not believe this can stop them . Amy says that it ' s not a weapon , " It just makes me feel happy . " The Dark suddenly fade away and the original summer setting returns . The dreamers are impressed at this act the man comments that she has the world " wrapped around her little finger " . The psychedelic man appears to Amy again . He tells her that he was a band member and found a place he could go in his mind , which is where they are now . It is called Psychspace , and he had to keep coming back for more and stay longer and longer until in the end he became trapped in it . References . " to be added "