As a woman slips in and out of sleep, her dreams become windows to moments in her life.

A poet attempts to sleep comfortably at a friend’s house without disturbing his hosts.

A restless housewife gives up sleeping for seventeen days during which she regains the side of her that was lost since she got married. Her lack of sleep finally catches up to her with life-threatening consequences.

A couple spends a hot summer night regaling each other with the dreams that have stirred them awake, leaving them to consider their relationship and whether they want to remain together.

Under the cover of secretarial work in a psychiatric unit, the protagonist records patients’ dreams in a logbook dedicated to Johnny Panic, believing themself a disciple to the omniscient master of fear and creator of all dreams. When the protagonist spends the night at the unit for unfettered access to patient records, the clinic director takes them away to a secure room for electroshock therapy.

On a cold February night, a man innocently eavesdrops on the lives of those around him — but when he overhears a violent situation, he must decide if he can remain a bystander.

Unable to sleep, a famous musician watches television and consults his friends and family in the middle of the night as a mystery torments him: who is the man calling his girlfriend and spreading lies about him, and what does he want?

A weary medical officer struggles to keep watch during the night shift in a naval prison hospital, even as the prisoners begin to cause trouble.

When an alcoholic-turned-family man in modern-day Cleveland has sleeping problems due to his son’s night screaming, he is haunted by his other family that he left behind a decade prior. During a nightmare about his old family, he wakes up to an even more grim reality.

A man racked by nightmares is blindsided by his wife's declaration that she was leaving him. He is left in confusion and rage.