I just watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer, season 1, episode 10. It is titled, “Nightmares”. The episode was about the people of Sunnydale being terrorized by their own worst nightmares. How did this come about? A little local boy named Billy has fallen into a coma and has entered the nightmare world. In his struggle to return to reality he has brought this parallel world back with him to Sunnydale. As a result, each resident is facing his or her nightmares, but in full consciousness and reality. This includes poor Buffy facing her father as he puts the blame on her for her parent’s divorce, as well as the popular Cordelia realizing her physique has been altered to that of a “nerds”. This episode made me think about what would happen if we all eventually had to face our nightmares. How could we cope? Our entire structure would fall apart. People would panic and riot. It makes me think about how we might want to prepare for the worst. What if nothing could bother us in such a way? If people could just accept the good and bad, maybe there wouldn’t be any need for fear. It would be like a protective barrier. To be numb and safe from all that is terrifying to each individual. This idea is virtually impossible, and silly. However, in theory it sounds like a perfect world (to me). If there was no fear, there would be significantly less problems with the world. To simply not let anything or anyone get to us anymore would be amazing.
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