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"Dreams for Sale" The Twilight Zone episode 
Scene from "Dreams for Sale"Episode no. Season 1
Episode 2, Segment 2Directed by Tommy Lee Wallace Written by Joe Gannon Original air date October 4, 1985 Guest stars Meg Foster : Dreamer
David Hayward : Paul
Vincent Gastaferro : Dream Technician
Lee Anthony : Rescue Technician
Kristi Purdy : Twin #1
Deanna Purdy : Twin #2Episode chronology ← Previous
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"Chameleon"List of Twilight Zone episodes "Dreams for Sale" is the second segment of the second episode of the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The New Twilight Zone. A woman (Meg Foster) finds that a relaxing outdoor picnic with her family is nothing more than an escapist fantasy being beamed directly into her brain.
Synopsis
On an idyllic outdoor picnic with her husband and their daughters, a woman becomes confused and disoriented when sounds and sights begin stuttering and events repeat themselves. She awakens and discovers she is in a futuristic dream-making machine alongside hundreds of others in a sterile, industrial environment with no view of the outdoors. A technician explains to her that she was in the Dreamatron "Fully Interactive Dream" machine, running a Country Picnic program.
He fixes the circuit board for her dream bay and tells her to relax and enjoy her last six minutes before returning to work. Apparently, her mind somehow fixed herself in the other life, and not her real life. Still confused, she returns to her dream world and relaxes again in her fantasy, but the machine burns out before technicians can disconnect her, trapping her in the alternate reality forever. All they can do is sadly note: at least she died happy...
Syndication
This episode became the second segment, in a shared half-hour run time with "Private Channel" for syndication, as recently shown on the Chiller TV network.
External links
Season 1 "Shatterday" · "A Little Peace and Quiet" · "Wordplay" · "Dreams for Sale" · "Chameleon" · "Healer" · "Children's Zoo" · "Kentucky Rye" · "Little Boy Lost" · "Wish Bank" · "Nightcrawlers" · "If She Dies" · "Ye Gods" · "Examination Day" · "A Message From Charity" · "Teacher's Aide" · "Paladin of the Lost Hour" · "Act Break" · "The Burning Man" · "Dealer's Choice" · "Dead Woman's Shoes" · "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium" · "The Shadow Man" · "The Uncle Devil Show" · "Opening Day" · "The Beacon" · "One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty" · "Her Pilgrim Soul" · "I of Newton" · "Night of the Meek" · "But Can She Type?" · "The Star" · "Still Life" · "The Little People of Killany Woods" · "The Misfortune Cookie" · "Monsters!" · "A Small Talent for War" · "A Matter of Minutes" · "The Elevator" · "To See the Invisible Man" · "Tooth and Consequences" · "Welcome to Winfield" · "Quarantine" · "Gramma" · "Personal Demons" · "Cold Reading" · "The Leprechaun-Artist" · "Dead Run" · "Profile in Silver" · "Button, Button" · "Need to Know" · "Red Snow" · "Take My Life...Please!" · "Devil's Alphabet" · "The Library" · "Shadow Play" · "Grace Note" · "A Day in Beaumont" · "The Last Defender of Camelot"Season 2 "The Once and Future King" · "A Saucer of Loneliness" · "What Are Friends For?" · "Aqua Vita" · "The Storyteller" · "Nightsong" · "The After Hours" · "Lost and Found" · "The World Next Door" · "The Toys of Caliban" · "The Convict's Piano" · "The Road Less Traveled" · "The Card" · "The Junction" · "Joy Ride" · "Shelter Skelter" · "Private Channel" · "Time and Teresa Golowitz" · "Voices in the Earth" · "Song of the Younger World" · "The Girl I Married"Season 3 "The Curious Case of Edgar Witherspoon" · "Extra Innings" · "The Crossing" · "The Hunters" · "Dream Me a Life" · "Memories" · "The Hellgramite Method" · "Our Selena Is Dying" · "The Call" · "The Trance" · "Acts of Terror" · "20/20 Vision" · "There Was an Old Woman" · "The Trunk" · "Appointment on Route 17" · "The Cold Equations" · "Stranger in Possum Meadows" · "Street of Shadows" · "Something in the Walls" · "A Game of Pool" · "The Wall" · "Room 2426" · "The Mind of Simon Foster" · "Cat and Mouse" · "Many, Many Monkeys" · "Rendezvous in a Dark Place" · "Special Service" · "Love is Blind" · "Crazy as a Soup Sandwich" · "Father and Son Game"Categories:- 1985 television episodes
- The New Twilight Zone episodes
- Virtual reality in fiction
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