This document appears to be an excerpt from a play or screenplay. It describes a scene between a character named Carla and her counselor. In the scene, Carla describes experiencing vivid, realistic dreams that feel more like an alternate reality to her. She says the dreams scare her because they feel so real. However, others do not believe her descriptions of the dreams. The counselor tries to get Carla to open up and explain more about what happens in her dreams and why they frighten her.

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Written By
Lauren Jones

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SCENE ONE
Scene opens on Carla picking at her chipped nail varnish.
It's raining. Counsellor pulls out a file and pen.
COUNSELLOR
So, Kitty. What's on the agenda
today?
CARLA
I don't know.
COUNSELLOR
Well you must know, or you wouldn't
be sat here. (no response). What's
been effecting you recently the
most?
CARLA
(Pause- Kitty looks down) My
dreams.
COUNSELLOR
Ok... What about your dreams?
CARLA
They're not,like everyone else's
dreams. I'm worri-
COUNCELLOR
-We're all worried, Kitty. Now tell
me everything you can, there's no
rush.
CARLA
(Closes eyes)I was 6. (Voice-over-
cuts to dream memory (young Carla))
I remember how cold I was, how
lost.A child's nightmare. I didn't

3. understand, but then i wouldn't of.
COUNSELLOR
(cuts back to therapy room)
Understand what?
CARLA
What it is! Why I go there. (cuts
to dream (old carla)) It's as if
the rare moments of happiness in my
life are built together, creating
then surrounding me in a world that
only I can go to. (cuts back to
counsellor room)Why would I want to
wake up?
COUNSELLOR
And that's what's scaring you?
CARLA (VOICEOVER MONOLOGUE)
Yes, but then, no one believes me.
(cuts back to dream) People believe
that dreams are simply a series of
thoughts, images and sensations
occurring in a person's mind as
they sleep. Then there's mine.
They're real, it's beyond my
imagination.
What's it called when you're really
there? When you can feel everything
around you, smell every smell and
hear every sound? What's that
called? Is that still a dream?
It's unbelievable and yet
believable, but only to me simply
because i experience it.I watch the
sun set in your world, and watch it
rise in mine.I've lost control,i've
lost reality.
you can give me answers, you can
give me help but it won't mean a
thing if you don't believe me.
That's something that no one else
can do, will do, but i think it's
my escape.
So, do you?