History Recap / TheTwilightZoneS1E9PerchanceToDream

* DrivenToSuicide: The protagonist, upon seeing the secretary's face, jumps out the window.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The man lies down on the couch and closes his eyes, and the lights go down, leaving him in near darkness for a moment.

* AndYouWereThere: After a fashion; the protagonist becomes terrified upon seeing that the secretary has the same face as Maya. Even [[spoiler:outside the dream she still has the same appearence.]]

* ScienceMarchesOn: Nowadays, a person with a heart condition would be told not to smoke or take stimulants. Since the whole thing was Edward's dream, maybe that's why the shrink doesn't say anything about that.

* AndYouWereThere: After a fashion; the protagonist becomes terrified upon seeing that the secretary has the same face as Maya. Even [[spoiler:outside the dream she still has the same dream.]]

* AndYouWereThere: After a fashion; the protagonist becomes terrified upon seeing that the secretary has the same face as Maya. We never see the secretary's face in the "real" world after he jumps in his dream, so she probably doesn't.

* DyingDream: At the end, the doctor and the nurse note that Edward came in, fell asleep, screamed, and died. Almost the whole episode was his dream.

* PassedInTheirSleep: A man thinks that if he falls asleep he'll die. At the start of the episode he goes to a doctor's office, lies down and closes his eyes for a moment, then jumps up and explains his situation to the doctor. At the end it's revealed that it was all a DyingDream; the doctor reports to his nurse that the man came into his office, lay down, and never woke up.

An exhausted, nervous man turns up in a psychiatrist's office one afternoon. He has no history of mental illness; what he does have is a major problem. Recently, he has begun dreaming segments of a story in which he finds himself in a creepy carnival with a seductive, unnerving girl named Maya, who seems to be trying to scare him to death. And given that he has a heart condition, she may just succeed.

* ScienceMarchesOn: Nowadays, a person with a heart condition would be told not to smoke or take stimulants.

* AndYouWereThere: After a fashion; the protagonist becomes terrified upon seeing that the secretary has the same face as Maya.

* ProperlyParanoid: Edward was worried that if falls asleep, he'll die. Turns out he was right.

* DrivenToSuicide: the protagonist, upon seeing the secretary's face, jumps out the window.

* MortonsFork: the protagonist's choice. Either he can go to sleep and have his heart fail from fear or he can stay awake and die from the strain on his heart.
* NeverSleepAgain: Edward can't sleep for fear of Maya scaring him to death.
* TwistEnding: the protagonist's discussion with the psychiatrist never happened. He dreamed it all.

* AmusementParkOfDoom: the carnival.

* DrivenToSuicide: the protagonist, upon seeing the secretary's face.
* [[spoiler: DyingDream: most of the episode.]]
* MatterOfLifeAndDeath: Mentioned in the opening narration.

* NeverSleepAgain
* TwistEnding: [[spoiler: the protagonist's discussion with the psychiatrist never happened. He dreamed it all.]]

* TwistEnding: [[spoiler: the protagonist's discussion with the psychiatrist never happened. He dreamed it all.]]

-->'''Creator/RodSerling''': Twelve o' clock noon. An ordinary scene, an ordinary city. Lunchtime for thousands of ordinary people. To most of them, this hour will be a rest, a pleasant break in the day's routine. To ''most'', but not all. To Edward Hall, time is an enemy, and the hour to come is a matter of life and death.

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[[spoiler: * DyingDream: most of the episode.]]

* [[spoiler: DyingDream: most of the episode.]]

* DyingDream: most of the episode.

* TwistEnding: the protagonist's discussion with the psychiatrist never happened. He dreamed it all.

* AmusementParkOfDoom/CircusOfFear: the carnival.

* MortonsFork: the protagonist's choice. Either he can go to sleep and be scared to death or he can stay awake and die from the strain on his heart.