Bad Dreams (Psi Factor)

Bad Dreams is the thirteenth episode of the second season of "Psi Factor" and the 35th overall.
== Synopsis ==
A hospital patient keeps having the same nightmare. In it, a masked man is trying to kill her with a blade and whenever he harms her in the dream, wounds appear on her body in reality. Lindsay becomes obsessed with the case.Bad Dreams - IMDB - Retrieved 8 October 2021
== Plot ==
=== Cold Open ===
A bored and tired nurse notices it's time for him to check up on his patients. He checks the room of Carole Sanderson and Alice Ashley, and finds them sleeping peacefully. He leaves to continue his rounds, not noticing Sanderson's wrist falling out of the hospital bed, slit and leaking blood on the floor. He's left the room when he hears screaming from within. He rushes back inside, finding Sanderson writhing in pain and fear as she attempts to flee a figure within her nightmares. He can only watch in horror as her throat is slashed in front of him, by an unknown and invisible assailant.
== Cast ==
=== Guest ===
* Tonya Lee Williams as Carole Sanderson
* Nigel Bennett as Frank Elsinger
* Peter MacNeill as Ray Donahue
* Rothaford Gray as Dan Pullman
* Collette Micks as Alice Ashley
* Diego Matamoros as Dr. Stan McKean
==Notes==
===Continuity===
* The Nettzeen Inquizitor reappears; its headline and front-page photo pertain to the episode "Man of War".
* Praeger states with certainty early on in the case that Sanderson's nightmares will come back, as his always do. This presumably refers to his experiences in South Africa.
* Axon refers to the observer effect; this phenomena would later become be the central theme of the episode of the same name.
=== References ===
* The episode bears a certain resemblance to the 1984 slasher film "A Nightmare on Elm Street".
* Anton refers to reports of a soldier in Nova Scotia waking up to find rope burns on his wrists after having dreamed about being tied up. It is unknown to this wiki whether this corresponds to a real-life event.
==Links==
*Bad Dreams on IMDB
==References==
Category:Fiction
Category:Psi Factor Episodes
Category:Psi Factor Season 2