Nightmare and Sleep-Suicide

This movie is started with Dean's nightmare experience. As the first victim of man with burned face and who threatened him in his dream until he decided to avoid sleep in the last three days. What in his dream is his real life, his hand ripped after he got a nightmare. For him, to sleep is to die. Dean died that night in a coffee-shop. Unfortunately, this tragedy is also experienced by his friends (Kris, Nancy, Jesse, and Quentine) who have been in relation with him since they were young in a same residence and kindergarten.

More or less, this movie captures psychological condition of young people and their experiences since they were child. What they passed is a basic of their dream generally. Sometimes, some people could acquire in a dream that is not real. Dream is nearly similar with fact outside dream itself. However, as like as reality on the whole world, no one knows where the window or the door are, for running out.

In a little conversation, Jesse asks about a lot of information that her mother hid for along time. Jesse and Quentine reveal what happened. By small residues on their memories, they discover the trauma that haunted them after. Factually, man in their nightmare is Freddy Krueger, a gardener who worked at their kindergarten. Freddy was killed by their parents with burned. This tragedy had been had by Freddy as provision to take several vengeances. Everyone, maybe, could forgive but not forget, yet Freddy could not accept both.

Sinking in memory, according to Lacanian socio-psychological explanation, is nearby arranging dispersal broken fragments. Sometimes, Jesse and Quentine will never land at the ending. They just reach what they claimed and imagined as true, whereas it has been on an unfinished mystical journey. For instance, Jesse's mother was killed by Freddy in the ending of movie, however he was killed by Jesse for the second time in the same place of first killing.

For the investigation above, nighmare and sleep-paralyse work under consciousness. They could be on sleep-walking or even sleep-suicide. These are horrible if they really happen.

(This article is written as writing task at TEST-English School)