![]() “If you believe in a collective consciousness Carl Jung talks about in his dream theories, it kind of makes sense,” he says. “I think that’s the best way to approach something that’s about dreams.”īurns adds that Carl Jung’s theories on the collective unconscious gave him solid ground for his wild narrative. “I didn’t write this so much as my subconscious did,” he says. Though Burns’ childhood and the Berkeley study were the “impetus” for Come True, the story “free-formed in my head,” he says. Landon Liboiron co-stars in Come True as Jeremy, a researcher whose feelings for Sarah make him a “creep,” according to Burns. Now available on Video on Demand platforms, Burns reckons with his (and everyone else’s) sleepy-time demons in his sophomore feature film, Come True. ![]() “If we’re all seeing the same thing, this shadow with glowing eyes, it can’t be some mass hallucination. “To me, that’s the weird question,” Burns says. While Burns was relieved to learn what he suffered was naturally occurring sleep paralysis - a state between sleep and waking consciousness where the body is stiff but the mind feels dread from hallucinations - he feared something else: Why are we all seeing the same thing? It was then Burns finally knew what happened all those nights ago. Years passed and Burns forgot about the experience until he watched the buzzy 2015 documentary The Nightmare. “As time went on, I started to feel like if this thing turned around and looked at me, I was dead.” “I thought for a while it was my mom,” Burns recalls to Inverse via Zoom. In the corner of his eye, Burns felt something, or someone - “a sort of dark, blotchy, shadowy person,” he says - staring back at him. ![]() Amidst the trauma of his mother’s death, the Ontario native would wake up from sleep, body frozen stiff. When filmmaker Anthony Scott Burns was eight years old, his nights were plagued by creeping shadows. ![]()
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