Dreams and Hallucinations

**Dreams and Hallucinations** are often seen in *Teen Wolf* to represent a character's internal struggles, and are sometimes caused by supernatural forces. Other times, they are a result of the immense pressure and stress the characters are feeling due to the traumatic events occurring in their lives.

## Dreams

* Season 1
* Season 2
* Season 3
* Season 4
* Season 5
* Season 6A
* Season 6B

In *Pack Mentality*, Scott McCall had a dream that was a modified version of a fight that he had in the middle of the night when he was involuntarily called out of bed by the Alpha to kill Garrison Myers along with him as an initiation into his "pack," although Scott ultimately defended the man rather than do as the Alpha asked.

In the dream, Scott was at the high school at night with Allison Argent, whom he was dating. The two were giggling and holding hands as they walked toward the bus bay, and when Allison asked him where they were going, Scott simply stated that they were going somewhere they could be alone. They then sneaked onto one of the school buses and teased each other by sitting in seats in opposing aisles until Scott, unable to hold off any longer, crawled over to Allison's seat and began passionately kissing her.

Unfortunately, as Scott began kissing Allison's neck, his claws extended, indicating his arousal was causing him to transform against his will. He quickly pulled away and turned so that Allison couldn't see his glowing gold eyes and fangs, and when she asked him if he was okay, he sharply warned her to stay away from him. However, since Allison did not know what was going on, she continued to push as she moved in front of him, eventually seeing Scott fully transformed and gasping in shock. Terrified, she rushed towards the exit to get away from him, but the door was jammed and wouldn't open, trapping her inside with Scott, whose inner wolf was now totally in control. Despite her cries for help and her attempts to escape, Scott viciously attacked her and presumably killed her.

Scott then awoke to find out that this was all just a dream. However, when he arrived at school that morning, he found that the bus bay was cordoned off with police tap and the bus he dreamed about was covered in blood and claw scratches, making Scott terrified that it wasn't a dream and that he really did kill her. He was unable to reach her on her phone, which only made his concerns worse, but it was soon revealed that Allison was fine, and that the actual victim, Garrison Myers, was taken to the hospital.

In *Co-Captain*, Allison had dreams of her on-again/off-again boyfriend Scott in which he appeared above her bed and started kissing her at various points in the evening. Unbeknownst to her, Scott was actually keeping watch outside her bedroom window, as he feared the Alpha, recently revealed to be Peter Hale, would come after her to force him to join his pack.

In *Party Guessed*, Lydia Martin was dreaming that she was in the shower, gingerly touching the still-healing bite and scratch wounds on her side, when she suddenly heard someone say her name. She turned off the water and slowly opened the shower curtain to investigate.

Suddenly, Lydia was standing on the high school lacrosse field, wearing her silver Winter Formal dress, while the people in the stands cheered her name and held up signs that say "We love you, Lydia!" Though everyone in the bleachers seemed to be very cheerful and excited, there was one girl (implied to be Laura Hale) sitting at the right end of the bottom row, sobbing. Before Lydia could process what is going on with the girl, Peter Hale approached her on the field, knocking her onto the ground and climbing on top of her, just as he had done when he attacked her.

She then seemingly woke up in her bed, where she found that her sheets were full of dirt and Peter was laying next to her. Lydia tearfully told him to leave her alone, but Peter, with feigned sympathy, explained that he couldn't do that yet. Lydia went on to ask if Peter was real or imagined, and Peter, amused, remarked that the answer was also "not yet."

Peter proceeded to promise that everything would soon be going back to normal, so long as she did everything that he asked. The two began walking down the staircase as he began explaining his plan-- it needed to happen on the full moon in March, which is known as the Worm Moon. Lydia immediately whimpered when she realized that the ground and Peter were covered in worms, and Peter implied that the plan was to resurrect him by stating the Worm Moon was meant to represent rebirth, as the ground began to thaw and winter began to turn into spring.

Lydia quickly realized that the full moon he was talking about was on Wednesday, which was her birthday. Peter, proud of her deduction skills, praised her before pointing out that her birthday party is always the party of the year, and that everyone wanted to go to it. Peter went on to say that they needed to make it a very special party, and when Lydia nervously asked what would happen if she didn't, Peter warned her in a kind voice, "I think it's best that we just make a plan and stick to it. That way, no one gets hurt."

Lydia, knowing that she had to go with Peter's plan in order to ensure no one she cared about would be harmed, sadly asked him why she was the one he was haunting. Peter smiled and replied, "Because Lydia Martin is not only beautiful, not only incredibly intelligent... she's *immune*." Confused, Lydia asked what she was immune to, and Peter smugly pointed out that "they" (i.e. Scott McCall, Stiles Stilinski, Allison Argent, and Jackson Whittemore) haven't told her yet.

He sympathized with her for being the last to know everything and acknowledging that it didn't feel good to be left out. He went on to say that Lydia deserved to know everything, but that it would probably be best if he just *showed* her. Suddenly, Peter in his Alpha form broke through the window and lunged at Lydia, causing her to truly awaken with a scream.

In *Chaos Rising*, Lydia Martin was seen dozing on her bed, having fallen asleep while she was studying in her bedroom. Though the audience was not privy to the details of the dream, it was clear that it was part of a Banshee premonition, as she awakened with a start and Banshee screamed at the top of her voice to announce the death of a lifeguard at the Beacon Hills Swimming Pool, who was killed by the Darach as part of her five-fold knot sacrifice ritual.

In *Frayed*, Scott McCall was seen dreaming several memories of the fight that the Beacon Hills Werewolves had against the Alpha Pack in the Abandoned Mall the night before. The first one occurred when he dozed off on the school bus while the Beacon Hills High School cross-country team traveled to a meet; during this brief dream, Scott relived the moment when he was crawling across the floor, severely wounded on his side, to help Derek Hale break out of Ennis' hold by slashing at Ennis' Achilles tendon. Scott was then awakened by Stiles Stilinski, who was studying for the PSATs with Scott and who was concerned about his current state due to knowing he was still hurt from the battle.

Scott fell unconscious later on that day as a result of his wounds going septic, as his guilt over what he believed to be the death of Derek caused him to subconsciously prevent himself from healing normally. While Allison Argent was literally giving him stitches to try to trick his body and mind into thinking he was healing, he relieved the same memory once again, only this time, after Scott slashed Ennis' heel, he watched in horror as Ennis lost his balance and fell over the edge of a hole in the floor, grabbing Derek and pulling him over with him at the last moment. Scott and Isaac Lahey were then seen staring in shock over the edge, where they saw Derek and Ennis fall seemingly to their deaths and land hard on the escalators several floors below them.

In *Anchors*, both Allison and Stiles had terrifying nightmares caused by the side effects of the surrogate sacrifice ritual they had performed several weeks earlier; Stiles' dreams were more intense, as they involved dreams within dreams, and Allison's dream was a worsened effect of the hallucinations she had been experiencing all day and continued to experience for several more days afterward.

First, Stiles dreamed that he was in the locker room of Beacon Hills High School, specifically inside one of the lockers, which he has to physically break himself out of in order to get free. He passed the row of sinks on his way out the door and was unnerved by the fact that his reflection in the mirror looked warped. He then made his way through the hallway and into Jennifer Blake's old classroom, where the desks and chairs have been tossed around and the blinds on the windows have been ripped up. He walked into the center of the room to find the Nemeton stump, growing through the tiled floor of the classroom, and reached forward to touch it, only for vines to shoot out of the stump and wrap around his hand and wrist, yanking it down.

The attack by the vine startled Stiles so much that he seemingly awoke in his bed to find that Lydia was laying with him. Stiles didn't initially question what Lydia was doing sleeping in the same bed as him, as she comforted him from the fright and allowed him to tell her about his dream-within-a-dream, but when he finally realized how incongruous Lydia sharing a bed with him was, he quickly became distracted by the fact that the door to his bedroom was open.

When he got up to close it, Lydia (acting as a part of Stiles' subconscious that wanted to protect him from closing the door in his mind that would trap the dark spirit that was inhabiting him inside) begged him not to, but Stiles insisted he had to, as he was afraid something could get in. Despite Lydia's pleas to stop and come back to bed, Stiles closed the door, only to appear in the middle of the Beacon Hills Preserve, in front of where the Nemeton is normally located. Giant lights suddenly turned on that were similar to those on the lacrosse field, and the scene is covered in a mist as the wind started to blow around him. He realized that he was dreaming and started hitting himself in the head with the heel of his hand as he screamed at himself to wake up, which he finally seemingly did.

He found himself in bed again, this time when the sun was up, and his father, Noah Stilinski, came into his room to tell him it was time to wake up for school. He then found himself at the high school, where he and Scott were discussing Stiles' dream while they walked into the building toward their class. Stiles asked Scott if he had ever heard of sleep paralysis, and when Scott admitted he had not, Stiles explained it to him-- essentially, during REM sleep, the body is more or less paralyzed to prevent it from acting out its dreams, and sometimes, the mind can awaken before it has a chance to reverse the paralysis, causing sensations similar to being strangled.

Stiles confessed that he thought that the surrogate sacrifice ritual they performed was still having effects on them, and when Scott assumed he meant something along the lines of PTSD, Stiles stated that he thought it was something more supernatural. Stiles then admitted his true concern-- he was having difficulty discerning dreams from reality, and as a result, didn't even know if this conversation was even real. Suddenly, Stiles awakened with a deafening scream, this time in real life, and Stilinski had to rush into Stiles' bedroom in order to calm him down. These dreams seemed to be caused by Stiles' inner fear of losing his sanity, which will later be expanded on as being due to his mother, Claudia Stilinski, having died from frontotemporal dementia, which caused her to lose her own sanity.

That night, Allison has a dream in which she and Isaac Lahey were hooking up in her bedroom. After kissing for a long moment, she pulled away to ask him for reassurance that Scott was okay with them getting together, and when Isaac stated that Scott was "one-hundred-percent over it," Allison was surprised by this answer. Isaac clarified that, while Scott may not have said exactly that in so many words, he *has* moved on, and Allison should be able to do so as well.

The two began kissing again, more passionately this time, and Isaac sat up so he could take off his shirt. As she ran her hand up his chest, she frowned when she noticed what she believed to be some kind of necklace around his neck. However, when Isaac, not knowing what Allison was talking about, began feeling his neck to try to identify it, it was quickly revealed that the "necklace" was actually the string of a garrote, which was being wrapped around his neck by none-other than the zombie-like version of her aunt, Kate Argent, whom she had been hallucinating about all day.

Isaac stayed frozen while Kate whispered to Allison around Isaac's ear, "Let's do him, Allison... Let's do him *together*." Kate began to strangle Isaac with the garrote, and Allison looked down to realize to her horror that she had just stabbed Isaac in the side with one of her Chinese ring daggers. Allison then awoke with a gasp and sat up in bed to find that she had fallen asleep while studying with Lydia, who had dozed off right next to her on the bed. Allison was once again horrified to find that she was holding a Chinese ring dagger in real life as well and panicked at the thought that she could have potentially hurt Lydia again. This dream seemed to reflect Allison's fear that she could eventually become corrupted like Kate as a result of her inner darkness from the ritual.

In *Riddled*, Stiles spent most of the episode in the middle of a dream, during which time he was sleepwalking through Beacon Hills. In the dream, he thought he was trapped in the basement of Eichen House, where his foot was caught in a coyote-trap and he was quickly becoming hypothermic as a result of the lack of heat in the building. In reality, Stiles was in a coyote den in the Beacon Hills Preserve, wearing only his pajamas on one of the coldest nights of the year, which explained the hypothermia.

This dream was used by the Nogitsune possessing Stiles as a way to communicate with him to try to convince him to let him take control over his body, and throughout the dream, Stiles was able to make several real phone calls to Scott, where he led his best friend to believe he really was in the basement of an industrial building. Stiles was ultimately found and rescued by Melissa and Rafael McCall after the latter noticed hints in the transcript of his calls with Scott that led him to realize Stiles was in the coyote den.

Stiles was once again put in a dreamlike state by the Nogitsune during his MRI after it was suspected that Stiles had frontotemporal dementia like his mother. The Nogitsune, taking the bandaged form of Corporal Rhys, threatened to harm Stiles' loved ones if he didn't let him in, and ultimately revealed himself to be Stiles underneath all of the bandages when Stiles finally did as he was asked.

In *Time of Death*,

In *Condition Terminal*,

In *Superposition*,

In *Genotype*,

In *Broken Glass*,
## Hallucinations

* Season 1
* Season 2
* Season 3
* Season 4
* Season 5
* Season 6B

In *The Tell*,

In *Heart Monitor*,

In *Lunatic*,

In *Wolf's Bane*,

In *Code Breaker*,

In *Omega*,

In *Ice Pick*,

In *Abomination*,

In *Venomous*,

In *Frenemy*,

In *Restraint*,

In *Party Guessed*,

In *Chaos Rising*,

In *Fireflies*,

In *The Girl Who Knew Too Much*,

In *Anchors*,

In *More Bad Than Good*,

In *De-Void*,

In *The Divine Move*,

In *Perishable*,

In *A Promise to the Dead*,

In *Required Reading*,

In *Strange Frequencies*, Lydia, Malia, Scott and Parrish all experience frightening hallucinations brought by the Dread Doctors. Lydia hallucinates having her tongue ripped out of her mouth by Tracy Stewart, Scott hallucinates being choked to death by Kira Yukimura (Kitsune), and Malia hallucinates being stabbed through the neck and arms through the floor.

In *Triggers*,

In *The Wolves of War*,
## Trivia

* Dreams and hallucinations are plot devices used in the series to help the characters (and, by extension, the audience) better understand and make connections to issues that they are dealing with at the time. (e.g. Scott McCall's many dreams and hallucinations throughout the series highlight his deepest fear, which is losing control and hurting someone).