Host: Carol Kelly has been very stressed about some nightmares she's been having. She thinks seeing a doctor might help but wonders is science stronger than superstition?

The Nightmare

Dr. Quintin was in her office waiting for her next patient when the young woman came rushing in. "Doctor, I can't take this anymore!" said the young woman.

"Miss Kelly, sit down, please and calmly tell me what's wrong." Said the doctor

"It all started last week. I was having trouble sleeping and I bought a new sleep medication to help me. That's when I first had the dream. I was in this strange house I had never been to before. I was walking down a hall and I went into a bedroom. There was a man in the bed. He was a rather handsome man. I looked at him for a second and then I started feeling a lot of anger and resentment towards him. I'm not sure why then I took a pillow on the bed and I smothered him with it. He started to move and tried to scream but the more he did the harder I pushed down until he was lifeless. Then I woke up. " said Carol Kelly

"Miss Kelly, you say you've never seen the man before?" asked the doctor

"No. At least, I don't think so." Said Carol "though he did remind me of my brother."

"Have you had any other dreams about murder since then?" asked the doctor

" Yes. I've been having dreams ever since then about murdering various people in various ways. It's gotten that I've been to afraid to sleep because of it." Said Carol "And what's even more frightening is that the next day there would be a news report on someone who was murdered in the same way and they aren't but they look like people I know. "

"You haven't been sleeping?" asked the doctor

"I haven't slept in 3 days. I can't if I do someone else is going to get hurt." Said Carol

"Miss Kelly, they are just dreams they can't hurt you. Besides, dreams are very complicated a murder is not always a murder in a dream it means something else entirely. Is there something you've felt you've given up in your life?Perhaps, recently?" asked the doctor

" Actually, I was going to sail around the world but my mother got sick and died so I had to give up my dream and move home. I've been so busy I haven't had the chance to pursue the dream again. You think that's what is causing the dreams?" asked Carol

"Yes, I believe that's exactly what's happening and then the dream is still so intense inside you that you attribute them to news reports on TV. My suggestion is fill that void by going on that trip. Once you do the dreams will stop." Said the doctor.

"Thank you, Doctor." Said Carol

Carol left the doctor very relieved. She went home and booked the trip right away. She was so relaxed on the trip that she didn't have a single nightmare. A few weeks later she came back. Everything was fine. That night she went straight to sleep. She had a nightmare that she walked into an apartment. She walked into a bedroom and saw a couple in bed. She took a knife and stabbed them both. Everything went black after that. When Carol woke up she was laying on a bedroom floor. She thought she had rolled out of her bed in the middle of the night but when she got up to get in bed she felt something wet. She turned on the lamp and saw she wasn't in her room at all. She was in a strange bedroom and there was a dead couple covered in blood on the bed and she was covered in blood as well. "O my god! O my god!" said Carol in shock.

The End

Host: What really happened here? Did Carol's subconscious act out her horrific dreams? It's true that medication has caused people to talk, drive cars, and even sell things in their sleep. Is murder out of the realm of possibility? Or is there another explanation? If so, what is it? Now the real question: Is this story true or did I just dream it up?