The creator of freddy Krueger, wes craven, said freddy was insprired by an old news story
he had read about a family who was trying to get their lives together after escaping
the killing fields in Cambodia.
But the son had such severe post-traumatic stress disorder that he would have terrifying
nightmares.
The boy told his parents he was afraid that if he fell asleep, the villain in his dreams
would get him, so the boy tried to stay awake for days at a time.
When the boy finally fell asleep from exhaustion, his family thought everything would be fine.
But they awoke to screams coming from his bedroom.
He had died in the middle of a nightmare.
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The question we are asking to day is what if Freddy Krueger was real?
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Freddy Krueger is one of the most iconic villains ever, and a nightmare on elm street is one
of the scariest films ever made.
For those who hasn’t seen a nightmare on elm street, Freddy Krueger is a burnt faced
serial killer who wears a razor glove on his right hand.
But freddy isn’t like other serial killers Freddy kills his victims in their dreams,
which causes them to die in the real world.
Terrifying right?
To make matters worse, Freddy is completely invincible in the dream world.
Every time he kills a victim, he gains more power, and if he kills enough he can eventually
become human again.
But what if If freddy Krueger was real…What if there really was a being that was going
around killing people in their dreams?
a 1979 report by the los angeles times doumented 3, unrelated people who were so terrified
of their nightmares, that they didnt want to go to sleep..
All three people ended up dying while they slept.
Autopsies could not determine the cause of death.
Wes Craven thought to himself, what if the dreams they were having actually killed these
men?
Could it be possible that they were all shared the same dream, even though they didn’t
know each other?
Could it be possible that the same thing was killing these people in their dreams?
Nightmare syndrome is a real thing, and it began to be documented before the release
of Nightmare on Elm Street.
In 1981, 18 young Hmong refugees died in their sleep.
Hmong people are indigenous people native to asia, who settled in America after the
north Vietnamese invasion of Laos, and the Laotian civil war during the Vietnam war.
They were fleeing human rights violations, persecution, ethnic cleansing and religious
freedom violations.
These people were healthy, but they were apparently haunted by their nightmares.
They would try to stay awake, but would eventually succumb due to exhaustion.
Each one of them died in their sleep.
It became more likely for a male hmong refugee to die from nightmare syndrome than to die
from homicide, disease or a car accident.
From the 1970s to mid 1980’s 110 deaths were reported, yet no cause was identified.
The Hmong people believe in a nightmare demon called the Dab Tsong.
Perhaps, if these people believed in Dab Tsong enough, could it have killed them?
Perhaps the same could be true for freddy Krueger.
So if we actually had a psycho serial killer like freddy killing people in their dreams,
we would obviously have to try and stop him.
Freddys is essentially unstoppable in the dream world, yet he seeks to kill enough people
so he can eventually become human again.
He gets his power from the people he kills.
So if freddy was real, all we would have to do is bring him over to the real world, and
put him to sleep using sleeping pills or a tranquilizer.
Once he’s asleep in the real world, we can then kill freddy.
In the same way his victims die in the real world when they are killed when they are asleep,
freddy could theoretically also be killed in this way.
So we We know freddy’s weakness, and we also know how to get rid of him.
But does that mean we would want to get rid of him?
Imagine the implications of having an assassin like Freddy Krueger on your side?
If the government knew about freddy, they would probably take people claiming to be
haunted by him and perform tests on them, and perhaps try to contact freddy to ask him
how he came to be, and if he would want to work for them.
Enemies of the government would have nowhere to hide.
Freddy Krueger would be the ultimate military weapon.
What do you think the world would be like if Freddy Krueger was real?
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