5th Dimension

A depiction of the 5th dimension from a Disneyland Paris advertisement

**The 5th Dimension** or the **Twilight Zone** is the titular alternate plane of existence from the television *The Twilight Zone*.

## Description

The 5th dimension exists outside of time and space and is a dimension not only of sight and sound but a dimension of mind, a dimension of both shadow and substance located between science and superstition, of both things and ideas. It seemingly exists outside of any one given reality, affecting different Earths and timelines where it causes extreme paranormality. It is affiliated with a seemingly omniscient and multi-dimensional entity known as, "The Narrator" who observes the 5th dimension's effects on reality while transcribing takeaways of it to an audience on varying plains of existence.

Within the Disney Parks universe, the 5th Dimension is connected to reality through the Hollywood Tower Hotel in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. Here, the dimension seems to be accessed by the hotel's upper floors and/or elevators which function as gateways between worlds. The 5th dimension is however hostile and dangerous for mortals, resulting in deaths and fates worse than it. It also appears that elements from the 5th Dimension (and potentially other realities it has effected) leak through into the hotel and possibly into the fabric of its history. For unknown reasons, the unnatural seeming bellhops of the hotel are fixated on sending mortals to the 5th dimension.

## History

On the Halloween of 1939, four guests boarded an elevator with a bellhop to take them to the *Tip Top Club* on the 13th floor of the Hollywood Tower Hotel. However, paranormal lightning struck the elevator shafts causing them to drop down several stories and for the hotel's elevator shafts to be left in ruin as the five victims disappeared off of the face of the Earth and into the Twilight Zone. After this the hotel was shut down and abandoned for fifty-five years before being reopened in 1994, in-part thanks to the success of the next-door G-Force records. The hotel wouldn't be the same however as it was derelict, filled with macabre curios and curiosities, and crewed by a staff of disturbed bellhops with would-be-guests disappearing within the hotel's walls.

## Appearances and allusions

### Twilight Zone Tower of Terror

Along with being a part of its history, the 5th dimension is entered by guests in their elevators. In DCA and Disneyland Paris this is shown by a haunted corridor going black before a window starts floating in empty space and shatters. In Walt Disney World, the elevators pass through the black abyss filled with glowing figures of the spirits, old images of Hollywood, a giant eyeball which stares at the riders, and other odd contents. The doors then move forwards where it passes by more elevator doors, inferring that they are in-fact still moving upwards before dropping back into the real world though the narrator indicates that several guests did not make it.

### Camp Discovery

The dimension is indirectly referenced in a newspaper in Camp Discovery which documents the Herman family going missing within the elevators of the Hollywood Tower Hotel, indicating they had become victims of the Twilight Zone.

## Connections

### The Twilight Zone

The 5th Dimension as an entity is taken from the Twilight Zone though it acts more directly than it did in the TV show where it typically was used as rationalization for profound science-fiction, fantasy and/or horror scenarios. Several artifacts and allusions to the Twilight Zone exists throughout the Hollywood Tower Hotel.

#### Lobby

* **Anthony Freemont**:
* **Room 22**:

#### Library

* **Broken Glasses**:
* **Invader**:
* **Letters**: Letters to Rod Serling and Victoria West which not only allude to Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling but the episode *A World of His Own* in which he was a character.
* **Mystic Seer**:
* **To Serve Man**:
* **Trumpet**:
* **Twilight Zone Scripts**:

#### Boiler Room

* **Cadwallader**:
* **Little Girl Lost**:
* **Popular Mechanics Magazine**:

#### Basement

* **Caesar the Dummy**:
* **Slot Machine**:

#### Hotel Gifts

* **Broken Stopwatch**:
* **Electric Razor**:
* **Talky Tina**:
* **Gold Thimble**:
* **Red Toy Telephone**:
* **Typewriter**:

* **Willoughby Travel**:

## Trivia

* The 5th Dimension is somewhat similar to the *Realms of Imagination* from the Journey Into Imagination attractions.