Glen Lantz: You ever read about the Balinese way of dreaming?
Nancy Thompson: No.
Glen: They got a whole system they call “dream skills”. So, if you have a nightmare, for instance like falling, right?
Nancy: Yeah.
Glen: Instead of screaming and getting nuts, you say, okay, I’m gonna make up my mind that I fall into a magic world where I can get something special, like a poem or song. They get all their art literature from dreams. Just wake up and write it down. Dream skills.
Nancy: And what if they meet a monster in their dream? Then what?
Glen: They turn their back on it. Takes away its energy, and it disappears.
Nancy’s Mom, Marge Thompson: You face things. That’s your nature. That’s your gift. But sometimes you have to turn away too.
-from the 1984 film A Nightmare on Elm Street, written and directed by Wes Craven, which I have always been too afraid to watch until tonight
Wildcat faces forward.