December 26, 2025 • 23 mins
Suspense was one of the most popular and successful radio series during it's run of over 900 episodes, spanning 1940-1962. Guest stars included Orson Welles, Frank Sinatra, Lucille Ball, Agnes Moorehead, Marlene Dietrich and Humphrey Bogart. The plots were mostly engaging crime dramas, science fiction and some horror - usually with a surprise ending.
Hope you enjoy this episode of Suspense! Find all our OTR radio stations and podcasts at theaterofthemind-otr.com - Audio Credit: The Old Time Radio Researchers Group. - All Podcasts @ Spreaker | Apple | YouTube | Spotify | Amazon | iHeart
Hope you enjoy this episode of Suspense! Find all our OTR radio stations and podcasts at theaterofthemind-otr.com - Audio Credit: The Old Time Radio Researchers Group. - All Podcasts @ Spreaker | Apple | YouTube | Spotify | Amazon | iHeart
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
And now tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills,
suspense Tonight the story of a woman who can't escape
from her dreams. We call it I Saw Myself Running,
so now starring with Charlotte Lawrence. Here is Tonight's suspense
(00:29):
play I Saw Myself Running.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Here the magazine section, Sweetie, thanks, you want the Woman's page.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Ready?
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Mmm?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I had the strangest dream last night. It scared me.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
Why didn't you wake me up?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Why wouldn't have done any good? It's the funniest thing.
It was a nightmare. I guess you know, the kind
where you see yourself running away from something or.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Somebody too much.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Brandy, I want to ask you, it's very important.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
What, darling, you.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Notice how sometimes in a dream everything is happening to you.
Then suddenly you find yourself standing there watching it, watching yourself,
and you say, it's a dream, and I don't have
to be frightened because in a minute I'll wake up.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
Yeah, I guess so well.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Last night, a lot of other nights, it's been different.
Starts the same way. I'm running away. Somebody I don't
know is following me, and then there are two of
us both me running.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Coffee still huh, Freddy soon, honey. I don't know anything
about dreams. If you want to know what I think
it means, I don't know. Huff and I'd say that
last Brandy.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Our coffee.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
How do you explain a dream? You don't? You can't.
At first, it frightens you. Then as the morning passes,
it fades. My lunchtime is forgotten. Faddy and I went
to bed early that night. I think I was a
little surprised when it began again. I didn't realize I
(02:49):
was asleep yet, but it was there, the same as
the last time, A face far away around It was
a piece of cardboard with circles drawn on at the
face of this, and it went round and round. First
only a dot, and then it came closer. The noise
came with it, and everything was spinning so much it
(03:10):
made me dizzy, but I could always see it right
side up. It was very close to me, and the
face was somebody's i'd never seen before. It was a man,
I think, and I knew that he didn't care, and
I wanted to cry, and it was gone. I was
alone in a big hall, and I thought I'd seen
(03:33):
the place before. But I couldn't have because I knew
it was only a dream. Even then, I knew I
was dreaming because I could see myself. There was a
wide staircase going up into a dark place that was
higher than any place I'd ever seen. I was at
the foot of the stairs looking up. My face was frightening.
(03:55):
I saw myself open my mouth to say something to
call upstairs into the dark.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Don't come down, Please don't. I don't want to see you.
I'm afraid, don't come down.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
But i'd never heard myself before, not really. I always
thought i'd said things in dreams, but not this way,
not so that I really heard, and the voice wasn't
my own. I found myself looking up the staircase with her,
and there were two of us standing next to each other, touching.
I could feel her hand. It was warm.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
Don't you mustn't come down.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Who is it? I don't know, Susan, I never know,
But it's up there in the shadows. What does it
look like? Listen.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
I'm afraid it'll come down soon and I'll try to run,
but I won't be able to get away. It's always
the same.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
This is a dream. It's a dream. I'm having a dream.
I can wake up now if I want to.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
I'll be here alone. Man, you always leave me here alone.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
That's silly. How can I leave you alone when you're
me It's only a dream. I can wake up now.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
No, you've got to stay this time. Look up there,
it'll be coming down in a minute.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
We'll have to run. I won't run, I will do
I have to. No, I want to see it. It'll
kill you if you stay. Well, how do you know
you haven't even seen it? But kill me too.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
I'm afraid this is a dream.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
There's nothing to be afraid.
Speaker 6 (05:20):
I'll be coming down.
Speaker 7 (05:21):
Done.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Done. We ran for both of us, and all this time,
and all my dreams that girl i'd seen haven't been
me at all. And then a great hall and staircase
wasn't there. We were in a lovely garden. It was
very quiet except for a single bird. But saying, strangely
(05:45):
and sadly, why do you dream? What a silly question?
Everybody dreams.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
If you didn't dream, I wouldn't have to be here.
I wouldn't be afraid all the time.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
There's nothing to be afraid of. It's warm, so peaceful.
Look at the roses. The caterpillars. I'm afraid of caterpillars.
I used to be. I'm not anymore.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
I'm still afraid of them.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
I remember the first time you dreamed of them.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
You've been frightened when when crawled.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
On your hand.
Speaker 6 (06:19):
You are very small man. That's the first time I
had to be afraid of them.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
That was a long time ago. I don't mind them now,
I do.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
I mind everything you think you've forgotten. Look there's one
crawling on my shoe. Will you squashed the caterpillar?
Speaker 3 (06:35):
I can't. I'm afraid, all right. What is this place?
It's an airplane. I've never been on an aeroplane before.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
I know.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
I'm afraid of them.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
I'll fall out.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Hold on me, you won't fall. It's only a dream.
You'll keep saying that what HiT's only a dream.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
It doesn't matter to you. You can wake up. I can't.
I have to stay. I have to live with this
all the time.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Where are we going? I don't know.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
Look, we're going to fall. We're going to fall now, It'll.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Be all right. We've got our parachutes on. I know
you have to count to three or ten and then
pull the ring. I've seen them do it in the movies.
Will be all right, we'll jump.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
No, I can't.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
I can't.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
I've got to.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
That's such a nice floating sensation. I had no idea
it was so high.
Speaker 7 (07:28):
I've got to count ten and pull the ring one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
eight nine ten.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
I can't find it. I can't find it.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
It won't work.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
I'm going to die.
Speaker 8 (07:53):
I'm falling, honey, wake up, Susan. Dreaming, Susan.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
It's all right, you're okay.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Now, there was a nightmare.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Who was falling a lot of an airplane. I was
going to die.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
It's all right, you're right here. Everything's fine. And it's
nearly four o'clock. Come on, you're climbing with me.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Ready. I don't want to dream anymore. I'm afraid.
Speaker 9 (08:47):
It was like last night, the other.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Nights at work.
Speaker 8 (08:52):
Now, listen, Suan, look at me.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Do I sound the same? Do I sound the same?
To us? When I go to sleep, when I dream,
there's another woman there. That's who I've been seeing all
these years. It's someone else. She's there all the time. Really,
I don't want to dream anymore. Something's going to happen.
(09:19):
I'm afraid.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
You are listening to I Saw Myself running the Night's
presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills suspense.
Speaker 9 (09:54):
There are more people in hospitals with mental illness than
with polio, cancer, heart disease, TB and all other diseases
put together. Let's stop the spread of mental illness right now.
Help your Mental Health Association in its fight for better hospitals,
more clinics, and more research. Give today to your Mental
(10:16):
Health Fund.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
And now we bring back to our Hollywood soundstage, Miss
Charlotte Lawrence, starring into Night's production of I Saw Myself
running a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Ready took me to the doctor. I try to tell
him about the dreams. When I finished, he examined me,
tested my heart and blood pressure. Then he said, Susan,
you're tired.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
That's what's the matter with you.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
But I haven't been doing anything to be tired. Really,
I have.
Speaker 8 (11:00):
You're overwrought.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Well, it's not serious. You're in good shape.
Speaker 9 (11:05):
What you need is to get away for a few days.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
I feel all right. Just that dream a girl, the
one who looks like me.
Speaker 9 (11:13):
I want you to forget about that dream.
Speaker 8 (11:15):
It's only because you're tired that you have the dream in.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
The first place.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Ah, I'm going to give you a sedative to take
just before going to bed.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
A few nights, good sleep, and you'll be fit as
a fiddle.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
I don't want a dream anymore. That's all. Patted me
on the arm, smiling. Freddie smiled, and I took the
little box of sedative pills home with me. I couldn't
tell them, I couldn't make them understand. That night, I
decided that I wouldn't sleep. I'd stay awake, and if
(11:49):
I was awake, I couldn't dream. At seven o'clock when
Freddy got up, I pretended to still be asleep. I
heard him mak him coffee. Then he came back here
and kissed me, left for the office. Somehow I stayed
awake the whole day. I tried to buy something at
the drug store to stop me from sleeping. They wouldn't
give it to me without a prescription. And then at
(12:09):
five o'clock Freddy called to say he had to entertain
some out of town people that night. After that, I
had to lie down on the living room couch because
I felt sick. I won't, I won't. I'm not going
to go to sleep. Oh, I've got to lie down
(12:35):
for a while. In a minute, i'll feel all right
and I can get up in a minute.
Speaker 10 (12:49):
In a minute, Oh, there's that big haul again on
(13:18):
the staircase.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
I can see her looking up into the dark.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
You didn't come last night. I know I was waiting here.
It didn't come down, though, the thing up there.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
You couldn't have been here. You're only me in a dream.
When I don't dream, you're not here.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
I'm always here. I have to see the things happen.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Things don't really happen in dreams. It's imagination. No, it
isn't it. Look up there in the dark. It's up
there waiting.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
Soon it'll start to come down.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
How do you know it does, and we'll have to run.
But if we run, we can't see it. Perhaps if
we didn't run and we saw it, we wouldn't be
afraid anymore.
Speaker 6 (13:57):
It's going to come down, I know it is.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Won't run, We'll wait for it.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
I can't.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
I'm afraid.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
You're me.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
I'm not afraid now, you can't be.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Look.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
The darkness at the top of the stairs seemed to
move take shape, and I saw heard her screaming slow
and painfully. She turned away from the stairs and tried
to run. Her legs moved, but she stayed in the
same place. Then the darkness started to come toward us.
It swirled down the stairs, and there was a figure
(14:31):
in it and a face, but the mouth and the
face wasn't a mouth at all. It had no form,
and the face changed and grew bigger. Came closer around
it an awful blackness, and I saw myself running. We
(14:51):
were standing in a narrow stone passageway. It was cold
and damp, and the other girl, who wasn't me, was
holding a gun. We both were, and we looked behind
us because around the corner, out of sight, it was following.
I heard the telephone ringing, and I couldn't understand how
there could be a telephone in that place. I'm tired,
(15:13):
I can't run anymore. We'll rest for a minute. It
sounds like my telephone. How can it be because this
is only a dream. If I wake up, I'll answer it.
It's on the table at the end of the couch.
I can wake up and answer it. No you can't.
(15:34):
I won't let you.
Speaker 6 (15:35):
I'm not going to stay here alone.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
I've got to wake up.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
You can't. Now we've got to run again. It'll catch it.
No hurry.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
I felt the cold horror behind us, and I ran,
following the twisting passageway, and I knew that the telephone
had been my last chance, my last chance to wake up,
and I hadn't. I couldn't. He's a light ahead. You
won't dare to follow us into the light. Are you tired?
Speaker 6 (16:11):
Are you no?
Speaker 3 (16:14):
It's funny how we seem to almost float. I'm not
tired at all. I don't think we need the guns now.
I'm going to throw mine away. I'm not I'm afraid
of guns. I used to be.
Speaker 6 (16:31):
I'm not anymore.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Wait a minute. Those two men you see in the entrance, Yes,
I wonder why they're there. Maybe they'll try to stop
us getting out.
Speaker 6 (16:43):
It'll be all right.
Speaker 11 (16:44):
Come on, it's Freddy Freddy and doctor Peters. I know Freddy, Freddy.
It's me, Susan.
Speaker 8 (16:57):
Susan, don't come any closer.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
But it's following us. We've got to get out.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
No go back, go.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Back into the passage. No, no, but I must let
me talk to them, Susan. You let me talk to them.
I'll take care of it, you will see. I saw
her walk slowly to the entrance to where it was
light and there was sunshine, and the three of them
(17:30):
talked very quietly. I couldn't hear what they were saying,
but I knew it was about me, And ever so
faintly I heard the sound of the thing that was
waiting somewhere in the blackness of the passage. She was
pointing at me, and Betty was laughing, and it made
(17:51):
me angry, so angry that I forgot to be afraid.
I ran over to them, and as I did so,
they blocked the entrance, linking their arms to keep me back.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Please told us all about you, Susan. It's taken us
a long time to find you out.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Stop it. There's no such person. She's me, She's Susan.
This is only a dream, and I can wake up
whenever I want. Stop.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Stop it's true.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
She'll tell you, my dear Susan.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
How can we ask her if you say she doesn't exist?
Speaker 5 (18:26):
You're tired overraw.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
You mustn't say that it isn't true. Please let me out.
I'm cold.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
I'm afraid you kept her down here all your life.
Now because you're afraid and cold. You expect us to
let you out and make her go back inside.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
It's me, your wife, Freddy.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
It's always been fair. I want to be fair this time.
We have to be fair.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
Sue. What do you think we let her out?
Speaker 6 (18:57):
No, she'll only wake up and leave me there. I
want to wake up this time. Let her stay.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
You're all crazy. She's not Susan I am. She's nobody.
She's in a dream. Stop it play.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
We have to be fair, we really do. If you
only wan so tired, so overaw? I suggest we take
a vote.
Speaker 8 (19:20):
Yes, that's eminently fair.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
A vote, I think so too.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
Yay or nae?
Speaker 3 (19:25):
We let her out?
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Yay.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
We don't let her out nay, Sue, nay, Doctor nay,
and I cast my vote.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Nay.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
The vote has been taken and duly recorded.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
You can't mark me stay here A wow.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
I think that you'd better talk to her.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
You're a woman. It's better that way, doctor, and I
will wait for you outside.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
All right, don't be afraid. You don't have to be
afraid now. That comes later when you have to go
back into the passage. When I wake up.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
You can't wake up never, you're not alive. I want
to tell you something.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
I'm not going to be like you. I'll never dream
ever again. You are going to stay here alone, just
the way you made me do it all your life.
You can run, you can run and never be able
to escape. But I shan't come here to be with you.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
It's waiting for you.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
Can you hear it?
Speaker 5 (20:32):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Please don't make me. Please, it'll get me.
Speaker 6 (20:42):
Please, it won't get you if you keep running, but
you must never stop.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Good dog, I'm afraid.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Please don't man, excuse it? Wake up please?
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Hm?
Speaker 6 (21:01):
So I think I'll wake.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Up now, Susan, Susan, Darling. Are you all right, Susan?
Speaker 6 (21:47):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (21:49):
I called you, but there was no answer. I was worried.
You all right?
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Feeling better?
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (21:58):
You look better?
Speaker 4 (21:59):
Say you know what.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
I've arranged to take five days off from the office.
We'll go to the mountains. That's what the doctor ordered.
How about it?
Speaker 3 (22:06):
It sounds wonderful, Freddy, I.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Figure, sus Yes, Darling, Yep, your voice.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Sounds funny.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
My voice.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
It's me.
Speaker 6 (22:24):
It's the only voice I've got.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
It doesn't sound like you. Are you sure?
Speaker 3 (22:32):
How can it be me and not sound like me? Silly?
Give me a kiss?
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Sus what's the matter with your voice
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Suspense, in which Mitch Charlotte Laurence starting tonight's presentation of
And now tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills,
suspense Tonight the story of a woman who can't escape
from her dreams. We call it I Saw Myself Running,
so now starring with Charlotte Lawrence. Here is Tonight's suspense
(00:29):
play I Saw Myself Running.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Here the magazine section, Sweetie, thanks, you want the Woman's page.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Ready?
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Mmm?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I had the strangest dream last night. It scared me.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
Why didn't you wake me up?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Why wouldn't have done any good? It's the funniest thing.
It was a nightmare. I guess you know, the kind
where you see yourself running away from something or.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Somebody too much.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Brandy, I want to ask you, it's very important.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
What, darling, you.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Notice how sometimes in a dream everything is happening to you.
Then suddenly you find yourself standing there watching it, watching yourself,
and you say, it's a dream, and I don't have
to be frightened because in a minute I'll wake up.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
Yeah, I guess so well.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Last night, a lot of other nights, it's been different.
Starts the same way. I'm running away. Somebody I don't
know is following me, and then there are two of
us both me running.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Coffee still huh, Freddy soon, honey. I don't know anything
about dreams. If you want to know what I think
it means, I don't know. Huff and I'd say that
last Brandy.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Our coffee.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
How do you explain a dream? You don't? You can't.
At first, it frightens you. Then as the morning passes,
it fades. My lunchtime is forgotten. Faddy and I went
to bed early that night. I think I was a
little surprised when it began again. I didn't realize I
(02:49):
was asleep yet, but it was there, the same as
the last time, A face far away around It was
a piece of cardboard with circles drawn on at the
face of this, and it went round and round. First
only a dot, and then it came closer. The noise
came with it, and everything was spinning so much it
(03:10):
made me dizzy, but I could always see it right
side up. It was very close to me, and the
face was somebody's i'd never seen before. It was a man,
I think, and I knew that he didn't care, and
I wanted to cry, and it was gone. I was
alone in a big hall, and I thought I'd seen
(03:33):
the place before. But I couldn't have because I knew
it was only a dream. Even then, I knew I
was dreaming because I could see myself. There was a
wide staircase going up into a dark place that was
higher than any place I'd ever seen. I was at
the foot of the stairs looking up. My face was frightening.
(03:55):
I saw myself open my mouth to say something to
call upstairs into the dark.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Don't come down, Please don't. I don't want to see you.
I'm afraid, don't come down.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
But i'd never heard myself before, not really. I always
thought i'd said things in dreams, but not this way,
not so that I really heard, and the voice wasn't
my own. I found myself looking up the staircase with her,
and there were two of us standing next to each other, touching.
I could feel her hand. It was warm.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
Don't you mustn't come down.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Who is it? I don't know, Susan, I never know,
But it's up there in the shadows. What does it
look like? Listen.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
I'm afraid it'll come down soon and I'll try to run,
but I won't be able to get away. It's always
the same.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
This is a dream. It's a dream. I'm having a dream.
I can wake up now if I want to.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
I'll be here alone. Man, you always leave me here alone.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
That's silly. How can I leave you alone when you're
me It's only a dream. I can wake up now.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
No, you've got to stay this time. Look up there,
it'll be coming down in a minute.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
We'll have to run. I won't run, I will do
I have to. No, I want to see it. It'll
kill you if you stay. Well, how do you know
you haven't even seen it? But kill me too.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
I'm afraid this is a dream.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
There's nothing to be afraid.
Speaker 6 (05:20):
I'll be coming down.
Speaker 7 (05:21):
Done.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Done. We ran for both of us, and all this time,
and all my dreams that girl i'd seen haven't been
me at all. And then a great hall and staircase
wasn't there. We were in a lovely garden. It was
very quiet except for a single bird. But saying, strangely
(05:45):
and sadly, why do you dream? What a silly question?
Everybody dreams.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
If you didn't dream, I wouldn't have to be here.
I wouldn't be afraid all the time.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
There's nothing to be afraid of. It's warm, so peaceful.
Look at the roses. The caterpillars. I'm afraid of caterpillars.
I used to be. I'm not anymore.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
I'm still afraid of them.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
I remember the first time you dreamed of them.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
You've been frightened when when crawled.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
On your hand.
Speaker 6 (06:19):
You are very small man. That's the first time I
had to be afraid of them.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
That was a long time ago. I don't mind them now,
I do.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
I mind everything you think you've forgotten. Look there's one
crawling on my shoe. Will you squashed the caterpillar?
Speaker 3 (06:35):
I can't. I'm afraid, all right. What is this place?
It's an airplane. I've never been on an aeroplane before.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
I know.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
I'm afraid of them.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
I'll fall out.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Hold on me, you won't fall. It's only a dream.
You'll keep saying that what HiT's only a dream.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
It doesn't matter to you. You can wake up. I can't.
I have to stay. I have to live with this
all the time.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Where are we going? I don't know.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
Look, we're going to fall. We're going to fall now, It'll.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Be all right. We've got our parachutes on. I know
you have to count to three or ten and then
pull the ring. I've seen them do it in the movies.
Will be all right, we'll jump.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
No, I can't.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
I can't.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
I've got to.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
That's such a nice floating sensation. I had no idea
it was so high.
Speaker 7 (07:28):
I've got to count ten and pull the ring one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
eight nine ten.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
I can't find it. I can't find it.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
It won't work.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
I'm going to die.
Speaker 8 (07:53):
I'm falling, honey, wake up, Susan. Dreaming, Susan.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
It's all right, you're okay.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Now, there was a nightmare.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Who was falling a lot of an airplane. I was
going to die.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
It's all right, you're right here. Everything's fine. And it's
nearly four o'clock. Come on, you're climbing with me.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Ready. I don't want to dream anymore. I'm afraid.
Speaker 9 (08:47):
It was like last night, the other.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Nights at work.
Speaker 8 (08:52):
Now, listen, Suan, look at me.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Do I sound the same? Do I sound the same?
To us? When I go to sleep, when I dream,
there's another woman there. That's who I've been seeing all
these years. It's someone else. She's there all the time. Really,
I don't want to dream anymore. Something's going to happen.
(09:19):
I'm afraid.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
You are listening to I Saw Myself running the Night's
presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills suspense.
Speaker 9 (09:54):
There are more people in hospitals with mental illness than
with polio, cancer, heart disease, TB and all other diseases
put together. Let's stop the spread of mental illness right now.
Help your Mental Health Association in its fight for better hospitals,
more clinics, and more research. Give today to your Mental
(10:16):
Health Fund.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
And now we bring back to our Hollywood soundstage, Miss
Charlotte Lawrence, starring into Night's production of I Saw Myself
running a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Ready took me to the doctor. I try to tell
him about the dreams. When I finished, he examined me,
tested my heart and blood pressure. Then he said, Susan,
you're tired.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
That's what's the matter with you.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
But I haven't been doing anything to be tired. Really,
I have.
Speaker 8 (11:00):
You're overwrought.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Well, it's not serious. You're in good shape.
Speaker 9 (11:05):
What you need is to get away for a few days.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
I feel all right. Just that dream a girl, the
one who looks like me.
Speaker 9 (11:13):
I want you to forget about that dream.
Speaker 8 (11:15):
It's only because you're tired that you have the dream in.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
The first place.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Ah, I'm going to give you a sedative to take
just before going to bed.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
A few nights, good sleep, and you'll be fit as
a fiddle.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
I don't want a dream anymore. That's all. Patted me
on the arm, smiling. Freddie smiled, and I took the
little box of sedative pills home with me. I couldn't
tell them, I couldn't make them understand. That night, I
decided that I wouldn't sleep. I'd stay awake, and if
(11:49):
I was awake, I couldn't dream. At seven o'clock when
Freddy got up, I pretended to still be asleep. I
heard him mak him coffee. Then he came back here
and kissed me, left for the office. Somehow I stayed
awake the whole day. I tried to buy something at
the drug store to stop me from sleeping. They wouldn't
give it to me without a prescription. And then at
(12:09):
five o'clock Freddy called to say he had to entertain
some out of town people that night. After that, I
had to lie down on the living room couch because
I felt sick. I won't, I won't. I'm not going
to go to sleep. Oh, I've got to lie down
(12:35):
for a while. In a minute, i'll feel all right
and I can get up in a minute.
Speaker 10 (12:49):
In a minute, Oh, there's that big haul again on
(13:18):
the staircase.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
I can see her looking up into the dark.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
You didn't come last night. I know I was waiting here.
It didn't come down, though, the thing up there.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
You couldn't have been here. You're only me in a dream.
When I don't dream, you're not here.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
I'm always here. I have to see the things happen.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Things don't really happen in dreams. It's imagination. No, it
isn't it. Look up there in the dark. It's up
there waiting.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
Soon it'll start to come down.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
How do you know it does, and we'll have to run.
But if we run, we can't see it. Perhaps if
we didn't run and we saw it, we wouldn't be
afraid anymore.
Speaker 6 (13:57):
It's going to come down, I know it is.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Won't run, We'll wait for it.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
I can't.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
I'm afraid.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
You're me.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
I'm not afraid now, you can't be.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Look.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
The darkness at the top of the stairs seemed to
move take shape, and I saw heard her screaming slow
and painfully. She turned away from the stairs and tried
to run. Her legs moved, but she stayed in the
same place. Then the darkness started to come toward us.
It swirled down the stairs, and there was a figure
(14:31):
in it and a face, but the mouth and the
face wasn't a mouth at all. It had no form,
and the face changed and grew bigger. Came closer around
it an awful blackness, and I saw myself running. We
(14:51):
were standing in a narrow stone passageway. It was cold
and damp, and the other girl, who wasn't me, was
holding a gun. We both were, and we looked behind
us because around the corner, out of sight, it was following.
I heard the telephone ringing, and I couldn't understand how
there could be a telephone in that place. I'm tired,
(15:13):
I can't run anymore. We'll rest for a minute. It
sounds like my telephone. How can it be because this
is only a dream. If I wake up, I'll answer it.
It's on the table at the end of the couch.
I can wake up and answer it. No you can't.
(15:34):
I won't let you.
Speaker 6 (15:35):
I'm not going to stay here alone.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
I've got to wake up.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
You can't. Now we've got to run again. It'll catch it.
No hurry.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
I felt the cold horror behind us, and I ran,
following the twisting passageway, and I knew that the telephone
had been my last chance, my last chance to wake up,
and I hadn't. I couldn't. He's a light ahead. You
won't dare to follow us into the light. Are you tired?
Speaker 6 (16:11):
Are you no?
Speaker 3 (16:14):
It's funny how we seem to almost float. I'm not
tired at all. I don't think we need the guns now.
I'm going to throw mine away. I'm not I'm afraid
of guns. I used to be.
Speaker 6 (16:31):
I'm not anymore.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Wait a minute. Those two men you see in the entrance, Yes,
I wonder why they're there. Maybe they'll try to stop
us getting out.
Speaker 6 (16:43):
It'll be all right.
Speaker 11 (16:44):
Come on, it's Freddy Freddy and doctor Peters. I know Freddy, Freddy.
It's me, Susan.
Speaker 8 (16:57):
Susan, don't come any closer.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
But it's following us. We've got to get out.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
No go back, go.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Back into the passage. No, no, but I must let
me talk to them, Susan. You let me talk to them.
I'll take care of it, you will see. I saw
her walk slowly to the entrance to where it was
light and there was sunshine, and the three of them
(17:30):
talked very quietly. I couldn't hear what they were saying,
but I knew it was about me, And ever so
faintly I heard the sound of the thing that was
waiting somewhere in the blackness of the passage. She was
pointing at me, and Betty was laughing, and it made
(17:51):
me angry, so angry that I forgot to be afraid.
I ran over to them, and as I did so,
they blocked the entrance, linking their arms to keep me back.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Please told us all about you, Susan. It's taken us
a long time to find you out.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Stop it. There's no such person. She's me, She's Susan.
This is only a dream, and I can wake up
whenever I want. Stop.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Stop it's true.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
She'll tell you, my dear Susan.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
How can we ask her if you say she doesn't exist?
Speaker 5 (18:26):
You're tired overraw.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
You mustn't say that it isn't true. Please let me out.
I'm cold.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
I'm afraid you kept her down here all your life.
Now because you're afraid and cold. You expect us to
let you out and make her go back inside.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
It's me, your wife, Freddy.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
It's always been fair. I want to be fair this time.
We have to be fair.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
Sue. What do you think we let her out?
Speaker 6 (18:57):
No, she'll only wake up and leave me there. I
want to wake up this time. Let her stay.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
You're all crazy. She's not Susan I am. She's nobody.
She's in a dream. Stop it play.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
We have to be fair, we really do. If you
only wan so tired, so overaw? I suggest we take
a vote.
Speaker 8 (19:20):
Yes, that's eminently fair.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
A vote, I think so too.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
Yay or nae?
Speaker 3 (19:25):
We let her out?
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Yay.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
We don't let her out nay, Sue, nay, Doctor nay,
and I cast my vote.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Nay.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
The vote has been taken and duly recorded.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
You can't mark me stay here A wow.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
I think that you'd better talk to her.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
You're a woman. It's better that way, doctor, and I
will wait for you outside.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
All right, don't be afraid. You don't have to be
afraid now. That comes later when you have to go
back into the passage. When I wake up.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
You can't wake up never, you're not alive. I want
to tell you something.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
I'm not going to be like you. I'll never dream
ever again. You are going to stay here alone, just
the way you made me do it all your life.
You can run, you can run and never be able
to escape. But I shan't come here to be with you.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
It's waiting for you.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
Can you hear it?
Speaker 5 (20:32):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Please don't make me. Please, it'll get me.
Speaker 6 (20:42):
Please, it won't get you if you keep running, but
you must never stop.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Good dog, I'm afraid.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Please don't man, excuse it? Wake up please?
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Hm?
Speaker 6 (21:01):
So I think I'll wake.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Up now, Susan, Susan, Darling. Are you all right, Susan?
Speaker 6 (21:47):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (21:49):
I called you, but there was no answer. I was worried.
You all right?
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Feeling better?
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (21:58):
You look better?
Speaker 4 (21:59):
Say you know what.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
I've arranged to take five days off from the office.
We'll go to the mountains. That's what the doctor ordered.
How about it?
Speaker 3 (22:06):
It sounds wonderful, Freddy, I.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Figure, sus Yes, Darling, Yep, your voice.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Sounds funny.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
My voice.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
It's me.
Speaker 6 (22:24):
It's the only voice I've got.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
It doesn't sound like you. Are you sure?
Speaker 3 (22:32):
How can it be me and not sound like me? Silly?
Give me a kiss?
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Sus what's the matter with your voice
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Suspense, in which Mitch Charlotte Laurence starting tonight's presentation of
Popular Podcasts
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.