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THE DREAM WORKER
By Royal Charles Darrah

GENRE: Crime, Drama
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What would you want and dare to dream for... if you could control and dream your wildest fantasies and unleash your deepest forbidden desires in your own scripted dream world?

SYNOPSIS:

NICOLA WRIGHT is a single, attractive psychiatrist around thirty years old with rich and powerful friends and a wealthy clientele. She has the ability to hypnotize her patients into scripted dreams to treat their mental problems. But now her gifted ability to hypnotize her patients has become nothing more than just hypnotizing them into their own desired fantasy dreams. This dream-making has become a medical ethics issue; Nicola’s walking a fine line between practicing psychiatry and playing God. Nicola’s in great demand for her dream-making but somewhere along the way the compassion that led her into her profession has been supplanted by her passion to experiment on her patients what her limitations are of her dream-making.

Nicola’s dream making results in the death of one of her patients and from her own near death, she discovers that she is capable of entering other people’s dreams.

At a medical review board, Nicola is disbarred from practicing psychiatry.

She realizes that she doesn’t like either the person or the psychiatrist she has become. She is devastated that her dream making had contributed and resulted in the death of her patient.

She vows to herself never to dream make again but is morally forced and drawn back into her dream making to save a young woman that is suffering from a Dissociative Identity Disorder that wants to kill herself. Nicola thinks one of the young woman’s identities may even be a murderer.

From her entering other people’s dreams, Nicola learns that sometimes she can alter other people’s dreams in ways that are therapeutic but at other times her intervention uncovers suppressed memories or character traits that may have disastrous effects.

With her new found gift, Nicola dedicates herself to healing minds, despite the danger of subjecting herself to other people’s nightmares as well as their dreams. She has no way of knowing if she’ll be able to emerge from any given session, nor can she be certain that she’ll be whole, mentally or physically, but she’s willing to risk it all because she is the Dream Worker.

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