This had the opportunity to be either a very informative speculative documentary about sleep paralysis or be a series of haunting reenactment of actual sleep paralysis night terrors from real people. Instead, The Nightmare is a very repetitive jumble of bad interviews and bland reenactments mixed with some real bullshit (astral projection). All parts of this are boring, but having some of these people (who i'm not sure I fully believe) try and tell me that these are not dreams and they are actually being attacked by "shadow people" or "Hat Man" or that they see into other dimensions, or whatever is frustrating. Them trying to convince me that there is a "sleep paralysis lore", implying that people who experience sleep paralysis are tapping into some kind of alternate dimension or collective unconscious, sent this in a different direction. There is very little actual documentary here; it's mostly poorly conducted interviews, some with real people offering their experiences and some with people who really want to be special. The idea of experiencing sleep paralysis and these incredibly lifelike night terrors is scary, hearing some guy explain to me a dream he had where his elementary school BFF sells him out to a giant ginger is not. I needed a scientist to give me some science or even a real nutcase conspiracy theorist to give me some in-depth bullshit There is some real irony in a documentary about emotionally scaring dreams putting its audience to sleep.
This had the opportunity to be either a very informative speculative documentary about sleep paralysis or be a series of haunting reenactment of actual sleep paralysis night terrors from real people. Instead, The Nightmare is a very repetitive jumble of bad interviews and bland reenactments mixed with some real bullshit (astral projection). All parts of this are boring, but having some of these people (who i'm not sure I fully believe) try and tell me that these are not dreams and they are actually being attacked by "shadow people" or "Hat Man" or that they see into other dimensions, or whatever is frustrating. Them trying to convince me that there is a "sleep paralysis lore", implying that people who experience sleep paralysis are tapping into some kind of alternate dimension or collective unconscious, sent this in a different direction. There is very little actual documentary here; it's mostly poorly conducted interviews, some with real people offering their experiences and some with people who really want to be special. The idea of experiencing sleep paralysis and these incredibly lifelike night terrors is scary, hearing some guy explain to me a dream he had where his elementary school BFF sells him out to a giant ginger is not. I needed a scientist to give me some science or even a real nutcase conspiracy theorist to give me some in-depth bullshit There is some real irony in a documentary about emotionally scaring dreams putting its audience to sleep.
