The Reincarnation of Peter Proud

Look Marcia.

I didn't mean what I said back there.

I'm sorry baby.

I mean it, I'm sorry.

I know.

You've been sorry so many times before.

Look, I was drunk.

I didn't know what I was saying.

I love you Marcia.

I always have.

I know you do.

It's all right.

We won't ever mention it again.

Get in the boat.

No Marcia, no!

Pete! Pete!

Wake up! Wake up!

Pete!

Wake up!

Wake up!

Oh, poor darling.

Nora, What is it? What's wrong

You just scared the hell out of me, that's all.

Here I was asleep when I heard this voice yelling out right next to me.

I woke up and there you were yelling and screaming in your sleep.

Jesus!

I thought I was sleeping with another man.

I must have been having a nightmare.

There was this crazy voice coming out of your mouth.

What did it sound like?

Weird. Deeper than yours.

Coarser.

God, I'm still shaking.

I am sorry baby.

Maybe I should tell you, I'm really a schizoid personality.

A regular Jekyll and Hide.

Who is Marcia?

Marcia?

You were yelling the name in your sleep.

I don't know anybody named Marcia.

I never met anybody with that name.

You sure?

Well, then...

What was the dream about?

- Do you remember? - Yeah.

She was hitting me in the balls with a paddle.

Well. Obviously she didn't do you any harm.

Hey, where you going?

We still got a little time.

Not today professor, I've got a discussion group at nine.

Besides, my students are no dopes.

They know when their teacher has that well-laid look.

I suggest you read the reports on the Iroquois Confederacy

sent back by the Jesuit missionaries to their superiors

between the years 1611 and 1768.

The political effect this powerful confederation had on

the history of colony is significant

Particularly in the years...

1700 through...

Doctor Proud are you all right?

Yes, I'm fine, thanks.

I must have twisted something.

Listen, if you don't mind I'd like to finish a little early today

and we'll pick this up the next time.

Thank you.

How's that feel?

More pain or less?

Just about the same.

OK, Pete. You can get up now.

You've had this attack three times in six months.

And for the third time I have to give you the same answer.

You got me.

We took this one on your last visit.

And took this one today.

No changes. All good healthy bone and tissue.

I can't find a damn thing wrong.

You mean my hip is all in my head?

- Still bad, huh? - Yep.

Well, take it easy, lie down.

Give me 2 cc's of meperidine.

And rest for a while.

Why don't you get one of these attacks when we're playing tennis?

Maybe I could beat you once in a while.

Would you turn over please?

I keep telling you Peter, everybody dreams.

The same dreams over and over again?

With the same people, the same places?

People I've never seen, places I've never been?

Why can't I be like everyone else?

Why can't I have a few nice, normal Freudian dreams?

Like killing my father or raping my mother?

Now you are getting upset over nothing.

That's true these dreams of yours don't seem to be dreams at all.

At least not in the ordinary classical sense.

I would call them hallucinations, they're fixed and repetitive.

And you do seem to have an extraordinary recall.

Doctor Spear, this thing is really driving me crazy.

It's getting so that I'm afraid to go to sleep at night.

Isn't there anything you can do for me?

Oh sure, I can give you something.

Very mild.

After a few weeks, these anxieties should disappear.

That's it?

Well, if you would like to talk to someone else.

There is a man on your campus doing some interesting work with dreams.

A parapsychologist.

One of the fellows who deals in psychic phenomenon.

You know.

E.S.P. hypnosis, telepathy that sort of thing.

Dr. Samuel Goodman.

You said these dreams started six months ago?

It was on my birthday.

My parents had taken me to the club to dinner.

That night I dreamt that I was murdered.

Oh here, I have written them all down.

They are the same dreams, over and over again.

They bear no relationship to anything that I can recall.

They're out of some other time and place.

Do you mind if I hold onto this for a couple of days?

Help yourself.

Maybe you can utter some incantations over them and make them all go away.

No, that's one thing we don't do around here.

Come on, I'll give you the 20 cent tour.

Professional courtesy.

These are our experimental sleepers.

We do a brisk referral business from local psychiatrists.

Patients with dream amnesia for example.

Everybody here is designated by number not by name.

Hi, any news from dream street yet?

No, but some of the natives are restless.

Number two brought its security blanket, says he can't sleep without it.

He's 53 years old.

These kids are all graduate students. They monitor eight sleepers a night.

This is our electroencephalography. Did you ever see one of these things?

No, I haven't.

They record brain waves, rapid eye movements,

other data while the subject is dreaming.

Uh oh.

Number five coming through.

He's almost out of it, Ally, you better wake him up.

Ok, ok, god damn it, I'm awake.

Tell us about your dream, number five. Can you remember it?

Yeah, maybe we oughta skip this one. It's pretty dirty.

Tell us anyway, that's what you're here for.

I dreamed I got out of bed, went into the john and turned on the water faucet

The thing wouldn't work.

And then I called a plumber. It turned out To be a woman. I was pretty surprised.

I mean...

...this thing about a lady plumber, I didn't think she could do the job.

And she laughed, and she took off her coveralls and I saw she was naked.

And then she went to the base and turned on the faucet.

Just gave it a flip and it turned.

I was waiting for the water to come on when you bastards woke me up!

Beauty, isn't it?

Oh yes, yes it is.

Cord supercharged sportsman convertible.

One of the finest character cars you can find anywhere.

Do you know that people ran them for years and years?

They were truly a mark of distinction.

Eight cylinder, front wheel drive.

And have you noticed the little handles on the dashboard?

They're for retracting the headlights.

Yes.

Just like some of our newest cars of today.

- What year is it? - 1937.

They stopped making Cords that year.

I don't believe there are five more like it in the entire world.

Its a classic, and a steal at 16,500.

I got a letter form Tony today.

I got postcard.

He sends you his regards.

What was on the postcard?

The Acropolis, what else?

Funny trip being an archeologist.

Poking around in all those ruins.

I guess he digs it.

Hello.

Yes.

Right away?

Well, its kind of short notice.

No, no, no I can make it. Yeah.

Ok, fine. Bye.

That was Sam Goodman.

Tonight's the night.

What do mean "tonight's the night"?

Are you really going through with this stupid thing?

Yeah.

I had other plans for us.

As a matter of fact, I'm particularly horny.

I can't let him down now, I promised I'd take the first opening he had.

Pete, the whole thing is crazy.

If he wants to experiment, why doesn't he get himself a white rat?

This is for me, not for him.

- All set Doctor. - Thanks, Charlie.

Well, Sam, am I AC or DC?

That you will have to ask your analyst.

Sweet dreams, number seven.

How's number seven doing?

He's not getting his money's worth.

Instead of one dream, every 90 minutes he hasn't had any.