Ever have a dream where something in the dream mirrored something in the real world? I can remember having a dream where I was sitting in class in my elementary school and I heard the bells of the church that was next door ringing only to wake and realize that my real-life alarm clock was going off (probably longer than it should have). It’s pretty common for things happening in real life to affect things happening in the dream life. Usually when this happens, you realize what is going on, give yourself a ‘yes b’y’ and move on with your life. But what if the opposite were true? What if things in the dream world affected things in the real world? Given how strange dreams sometimes are, that seems quite a lot more terrifying yet this exact thing was surprisingly common among a specific group of mostly men in the United States in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Horror king Wes Craven caught wind of this story and the idea of a villain who hunted his victims in their sleep was formed. That’s right – the 1984 classic “A Nightmare on Elm Street” was inspired by true events that were, indeed, some weird.

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