"It is the most primitive of human feelings it is called the fear of death. so we hide our fear away in our hearts and live with our eyes closed." "But what if... we could live forever?" "The following tale is of a man who had one such everlasting dream." "I will not die." "Instead I will wait for you in the world of the eternal dream." "With love..." "Long Dream" "I don't want to die." "Who is that?" "Who's there?" "Patient:" "Mami Takeshima Age: 17 years Sex:" "Female" "Illness:" "Benign tumour" "I guess you've calmed down a bit?" "You said you didn't want to wait." "Doctor..." "I guess I'll probably die soon." "you won't be doing any dying " "I..." "I don't want to..." "What will happen if I die?" "Mami " "We found your disease early." "There's no need to operate and you will definitely recover." "You just have to try." "but..." "It's no good." "Death has already started to come for me." "The previous night" "that man wasn't death." "He's another patient from this hospital." "Don't lie to me!" "There's no way he was human!" "That was not a human face.... death come for me." "Mami... are you alright... no surgery will be necessary." "I think that we can consider that some careful therapy will result in a complete recovery." "I agree." "wasn't it." "Yes." "her feelings of despair are strong." "She thinks she saw death last night." "isn't she." "She's very anxious dwelling on these thoughts of her own death." "She's not psychologically stable." "haven't you?" " it's just that she's my first case." "You do realize that in this line of work you have to be careful not to get too involved with the patients." "Alright... by the way -- about that patient who visited Mami... him?" "I heard that you were put in special charge of this patient." "hmm." "He's very scared of sleeping." "Scared of sleeping?" "hmm?" "I don't suppose you could fill me in on it?" "she insisted that he didn't have a human face." "What sort of sickness does he have?" "Humans are humans." "it's just that it's hard to tell if he's really sick or not." "his problem is with dreams." "Dreams?" "it's almost time for him to get up." "too?" "We're making no progress with his case. telling me that he was having a problem with 'long dreams'." "2 months earlier" "Patient:" "Tetsuro Mukoda Age: 26 years Sex:" "Male" "Illness:" "Unknown" "Long dreams?" "Yes." "Long?" "So how long do they seem?" "one night's dream felt like two or three days." "When did it start?" "Around two months ago." "it feels like time moves more slowly? inside my dreams it feels like a long time has passed." "Very precisely." "At first I thought it was just my imagination." "but... as time past the dreams got longer." "that would be fine." "but nightmares are the more common and I've felt worse and worse." "now." "And now?" "now?" "Last night's dream was... around a year long." "One year?" "doctor." "Now I can't clearly remember the previous day " "I'm having troubles carrying on with my everyday life." "What can I do?" "yesterday happened last year." "I thought that either he was lying he must be suffering from some strange psychological disorder whereby he really thought he was having these long dreams." "For one night's dream to contain the existence of one year... is ridiculous." "I checked him into the hospital and had his sleep put under observation." "that night..." "His whole body convulsed and his darted about incredibly quickly. but the readings showed that in that moment he had entered a state of deeper sleep than we know." "you - wake up!" "where am I?" "It's the hospital." "You've been checked in since yesterday." "Checked in?" "did you dream?" "What was it?" "Did you have a long dream again?" "how long was the dream?" "One and a half years." "Something HAD happened." "He wasn't lying." "I had confirmed it." "He had really been having long dreams." "we repeated the observations any number of times." "what the cause is - we had no idea." "There's only one thing we can say for sure - his whole body convulses." "his dreams take on the aspect of months or years. he's under the illusion of dreaming for a long time." "Hallucination?" "you can only say that because you haven't seen my dreams." "It's all in your head. you just have to stop worrying about sleeping." "My dreams are getting longer and longer." "More real." "More squalid." "More frightening." "You don't know what it's like!" "Last night's dream was ten years long." "In my dream hiding in the jungle." "I would be killed." "I had no food." "I had to survive on grubs." "and when they ran out" "I ate my own feet." "I had to live for ten years in those horrible conditions." "My dream from two nights ago was about exam hell." "Nine years of staying up all night to study." "And then there was horrible dream where I spent eight years looking for a toilet..." "I understand." "I'm working hard to find the cause of the problem." "please just try to hold on a bit longer." "but please hurry up." "my dreams will probably start to last hundreds of years." "it will be the end of me." "The increase in the length of his dreams has been accelerating." "And recently as well. although he could still remember his real life it became incredibly painful for him." "then... after more than a month when he awoke he would speak with a completely different intonation from the previous day." "it was as big a difference as if you were to compare a modern accent with one from a hundred years ago." "The universe he lives in now is one completely different from our own" "Completely lost to us." "his transformation has now manifested itself even in his skin and his face." "His face?" "it looks like he is flying headlong into something else." "Here we are." "please try not to express shock or surprise." "I understand." "Mukoda-kun." "Where is here?" "Who are you?" "Kuroda." "Please try to remember." "Recently when he awakes he's often been like this - doing strong things with no apparent meaning." "Does he thinks he's still in his dream?" "where's Mami?" "where is she?" "We married 500 years ago and have never been separated since." "way back then - you tried to keep me from her." "Where have you hidden her?" "Mami where are you..." "Stop him!" "Right." "Kana." "What's wrong?" "Death!" "help me!" "Shinigami?" "Death?" "Go back to your room?" "Shinigami?" "Death?" "..." "Shinigami?" "Death?" "I see." "So it was all just a dream. they were all just part of my dream." "Mami wants nothing to do with me -- rather my relationship with her only involves being called 'death' by her...." "Maybe your memory of meeting Mami last night had an influence on your dreams." "I'm scared." "my dreams will just get longer." "And what if one night I have a never-ending dream? If I were to have an everlasting dream" "what will happen to me?" "what will happen the next morning?" "How are things coming along?" "Alright." "With some sleeping pills we finally got her to sleep." "I really started to worry that her mental health would be damaged." "It's good that she calm down like that." "about him... he's writing more on his walls and of course he's scared of sleeping." "Doctor!" "Are you alright?" "I just felt a little dizzy." "Doctor." "I'm fine." "In Mukoda's room" "Doctor." "Thank you." "Kana." "Kana." "time to wake up." "..sorry" "Your shift's over." "Right." "His form had undergone a drastic change." "Already gone were his signs of humanity." "How far had he gone into the future this time?" "what will happen to him?" "Will he ever open his eyes again?" "Kana " "I see you in my dreams" "we're floating like a mirage it's such a wonderful dream." "Your eyes were even softer than normal" "Your voice reaching deep inside me like the sun rising at daybreak." "facing into the light." "Heaven was made for two with just the gentle enveloping clouds. like holy light." "Doctor..." "Doctor Kuroda? his soul departed on a voyage through an infinite dream." "from his brain crystallised." "I thought maybe this substance had some connection to his condition." "I couldn't figure it out." "how are you feeling?" "Recently I've felt quite well." "I even sleep well at night." "Is that so..." "Have you noticed anything unusual?" "Yes." "Really..." "On that subject..." "Yes?" "but... my dreams are quite long." "Just how long are they?" "Last night..." "I was in my dreams for around one month." "what can this mean?" "Success." "Success?" "I think you can claim responsibility for this!" "isn't Mami now in the same condition as your patient?" "Perhaps it's contagious!" "it's impossible." "No such virus has ever been discovered." "But - It's a relief she's finally having long dreams." "Hasn't Mami calmed down?" "Please drop any futile measures." "I leave you responsible now for her care." "Please do your best. her condition suddenly deteriorating to the other patient's level." "it's strange..." "Hello?" "Miyama." "Talk?" "Really?" "In the middle of the night?" "when a nurse from my floor took an elevator to the 6th floor after work..." "Really?" "I don't think there can be any mistake." "What is it?" "Inside..." "Can you tell me about yesterday's dream?" "The dream was around ten years long." "I killed a women dressed in white." "Why?" "Because she was a bad person." "A bad person?" "She was interfering with Doctor Kuroda and me." "You and..." "Doctor Kuroda? but that whole time that women had been after Doctor Kuroda." "and confessed the whole thing." "Confessed what?" "so I killed her." "Cut her up with scissors." "It was... so real!" "Doctor Kuroda and I really are...." "I've processed what I want." "I've filled out all the forms." "I doubt the pain lasted long." "What have you told the police?" "She is the first patient you are responsible for - should I really call the police?" "Her actions were committed during an elongated dream... it cannot qualify as a crime." "It would also have shown up on your career history." "it would not be in the interest of our patient." "mid-treatment?" "I...." "Alright?" "Please forget this conversation." "I will also delete this tape." "What is that?" "my health has been poor..." "You don't seem well." "Agreed." "his behaviour has been very strange. but haven't found proof." "Those lingering doubts determined my course of action." "who is this in the picture?" "will you be staying here again tonight?" "at a hotel." "Really?" "In that case I'll stay over in the lounge." "so... please do." "please excuse me." "A case of a nurse suicide emerged from Akata hosptial..." "The deceased woman was Sakura...." "Staff at the hospital were not available for comment." "...there is a rumour that euthanasia has been occurring at the hospital her fiance implicated a Doctor Kuroda etc..." "I won't die." "I will wait for you." "With love..." "Sakurai Kana." "Karte 'Long Dream'?" "his soul departed on a voyage through the eternal dream." "Expelled through his mouth from his brain an unknown substance crystallised." "I can't figure it out." "what if this could take me to Kana's world?" "I must first attempt a human trial." "what is this shot for?" "It's a medicine to calm you down and allow to sleep." "There's no need to worry." "Nothing to fear." "Yamauchi?" "To test on people..." "That crystalline substance was unknown some research was necessary." "a trial on the human body was necessary." "That's how medicine advances." "that test was successful." "You call that success?" "didn't I?" "With that crystal alone humans can attain immortality in a dream." "What you performed was an illegal human trial!" "It's no proper cure for the fear of death!" "You're no doctor." "With that tape as evidence" "I'm going to the police. you've lost your head." "You're feelings for Mami are interfering with your judgement." "You're struggling with me. that's right." "I liked Mami." "But what's that to you?" "Sakurai Kana!" "She's not dead!" "Kana is in the world of dreams." "In order to make that world of dreams last forever that crystal is essential." "Why... despite..." "Why - why doesn't it work for me?" "Why won't my dreams get longer?" "It's not just that..." "I've stopped dreaming completely..." "Kana!" "I see now." "is it." "You can't enter the world of infinite dreaming." "You can't evaluate it." "This is your greatest work. unable to join her." "what do you know!" "How many times?" "How many damn times?" "Kana!" "Kana." "Kana!" "Kana!" "...several days in one night... it was contagious... in one night two or three days...so I killed him... and the one month... the god of death..." "Doctor so you can't say that.... god of death..." "Kuroda?"