Listen

Nightmares scare everyone, what if a time lord has a nightmare that haunts him for the rest of his life? He would probably freak out about it to a point of thinking that there is a species that hides for a living to listen. Everyone is haunted about the monster that hides under their bed, and the nightmare that the monster grabs your foot as you try to stand up.

In the fourth episode of Doctor Who “Listen”, the Doctor is convinced that there is a monster just like that. A monster that hides and listens. Most people have a dream that a monster grabs their foot, so the Doctor tries to go back in time to Clara’s dream. However they end up at her colleague’s dream, and there ends up being someone or something on his bed when they go under the bed to see if there is anything there.

They continue their journey and the Doctor tries to prove that there is a species that hides. They then end up at the end of the universe on the last planet with another time traveler. This lone planet doesn’t have anything living on it, except at night. The door is rattled and knocked on. There is something out there, and the Doctor has to know what it is. So he opens the door to look, and the air pressure is broken. Needing to escape, Clara tries to go to another one of her memories, but ends up at the Doctor’s dream when there is a monster under the bed. It ends up as Clara being on the “monster” that grabs the Doctor’s foot when he was a child.

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This episode is freaky, especially at the end, because the Doctor is the one that is mostly shaken up by the monster under the bed. Everyone has nightmares, the key is to acknowledge these terrors and to live on with an open heart.

I remember only one of my nightmares when I was a little kid. This nightmare started in our living room, and I was with my brother and sister. It may seem silly, but we were surrounded by zombies that wanted to eat us. My brother told me to run, and I ran out the front door, and to the neighbor's house. The zombies thought I went to the backyard, and went there. This dream had scared me my whole childhood, and still lingers in my thoughts. This episode reminded me of this dream, and how nightmares can scar someone the rest of their lives.