Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Sleep and Dreams and Horror Stories?
6 questions to test your knowledge of sleep and dreams in horror stories
It might feel like you’re in a dream, but how do you know?
Are we all living in a dream world? What’s real and what’s not? In a horror story, you can never be quite sure.
How well do you know your horror stories?
Try these six questions about sleep, dreams, and nightmares in horror stories and see how much you know.
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1. Movie: A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Where did Wes Craven get the name for the character of Freddy Krueger?
A childhood bully
Yes. Fred Krueger went to school with Wes Craven and bullied Craven for several years.
A homeless man
Nope. Try again. A disfigured homeless man that scared Craven as a child was part of the inspiration for the character but not for the name.
A newspaper article
Nope. Try again. A series of newspaper articles about some refugees that had nightmares and died in their sleep inspired the basic premise of the story.
What’s this movie about?
Teenagers are chased and killed in their dreams by a disfigured man … and they also die in real life.
Nancy desperately tries to stay awake as people around her are murdered by the ghost of an insane murderer seeking revenge for his own death.
2. Book: Sleeping Beauties (2017) by Stephen and Owen King
What is the name of the disease that causes all women in the world to fall asleep?
Aurora
Yes. The Aurora disease, named after Sleeping Beauty’s Princess Aurora, causes all women to fall asleep, cocooned in a strange material. It also causes the women to attack and murder anyone who tries to open the cocoons.
Ariel
Nope. Try again. Ariel is the Little Mermaid.
Arya
Nope. Try again. Arya Stark was a character in Game of Thrones.
What’s this book about?
A mysterious sickness is sweeping the world causing women to fall asleep, cocooned in a strange material. The sickness causes the women to become homicidal if anyone tries to open the cocoons.
The sleeping women find themselves in an alternate dimension, in a post-apocalyptic version of their town.
3. Movie: Before I Wake (2016)
What is the item that stops the Canker Man from killing Jessie?
A photo
Nope. Try again.
A pillow
Yes. Jessie finds a butterfly-shaped pillow that belonged to Cody’s mother and holds it up to the Canker Man when he attacks her.
A journal
Nope. Try again. Jessie did find a journal with Cody’s mother’s belongings but it’s not what stops the Canker Man.
What’s this movie about?
Jessie and Mark lose their son in a drowning accident and take in eight-year-old Cody as a foster child.
Cody has nightmares and talks about the ‘Canker Man’ but Jessie tells him that nightmares can’t hurt people. Turns out, when Cody sleeps, things physically manifest, like butterflies and the couple’s dead son. When Jessie realises what’s going on, she encourages Cody to manifest her dead son for her.
Things start to spiral out of control when the ‘Canker Man’ starts to appear and people in Cody’s life start to go missing.
4. Book: The Stand (1978) by Stephen King
What’s the surname of Mother Abigail who appears in the dreams of some of the plague survivors?
Redman
Nope. Try again. Stu Redman is one of the main characters that joins up with the ‘good’ people.
Flagg
Nope. Try again. Randall Flagg is the man who beckons the ‘bad’ people to join him in Las Vegas. Is he the devil?
Freemantle
Yes. ‘Mother Abigail’ Freemantle is the 108-year-old woman who invites the ‘good’ people to her farm in Nebraska. Is she God?
What’s this book about?
A super-flu wipes out most of the world’s population. The survivors dream about an old woman in Nebraska or a ‘dark man’ in Las Vegas, depending on their own character and propensities. As both leaders gain followers and power, a showdown becomes inevitable.
5. TV: Supernatural (2008)
In Season 3, Episode 10, 'Dream a Little Dream of Me', what plant did Sam and Dean use to enter the dream state to rescue Bobby?
Somniata Nightmarensis
Nope. Try again.
African Dream Root
Yes. Bobby was drugged with African Dream Root and the brothers had to get some from Bela to go in and rescue Bobby.
Sleepy Baba Root
Nope. Try again.
What’s this episode about?
Titled ‘Dream a Little Dream of Me’, Sam and Dean are summoned to Pittsburgh where Bobby has fallen into a coma. They discover he’s been drugged using a plant that allows a person to enter and manipulate someone else’s dreams. The brothers take the drug but are forced to confront their own nightmares while trying to rescue Bobby.
6. Movie: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
What do Matthew and Elizabeth do to stay awake when they’re hiding in the health department?
They take speed
Yes. They take large doses of speed before they’re ambushed and injected with sedatives.
They drink coffee
Nope. Try again.
They cut themselves
Nope. Try again.
What’s this movie about?
Aliens are replicating people in plant-like pods and when the human counterpart falls asleep, the alien replica takes over their life, being perfect duplicates except for the fact they have no emotions or feelings.
Two scientists race against time, trying to stop it happening to them.
Published: 30 September 2022
