Nightmare VS Dream ♪

[@Joshua.SA1229]

Thanks! Wow let's go Nightmare, RIP to the lifesteal people??? Poor Nightmare trying to find peace with Dream have to finish the blades dance wonder what means. Can't wait for the next episode. Much props to Ethan and his team keep it up. 💯🔥👍

[@EthanAnimatez]

That's insane, thank you so much!! You're awesome!!

[@manugaming2157]

He has to fight and beat Technoblade ur welcome 😁

[@tamannaakhter4998]

Bro why pay him US$20

[@ProCreeper]

@@tamannaakhter4998 he’s a fan

[@thegentelmed2959]

@@tamannaakhter4998 He has to get Ethan through collage that's why gotta start making these things for movies producers like this is top notch stuff.

[@07JoaquinMiguelChan]

ethan this animation is fire (i love the way nightmare's hair moves) the battle at 2:14 to 2:56 is insane . i cant stop watching this again and again. the songs fits. the end is so sad🥺

[@LilDaeDreamer]

This is probably my favorite episode of the Sleepwalking series since the originals. Everybody did an awesome job here! Thanks again for letting me help with this one; it was a lot of fun! Also, ClownPierce needs to go DOWN for what he did to Nightmare-- I never thought I'd be saying this, but REALLY, poor Nightmare...

[@MinahilFaraz]

Hello ￶😘

[@shlokesaha3363]

I feel sorry for Nightmare. Also my condition is kind of like Nightmare so I can understand how he feels.

[@MinahilFaraz]

@luhp3kk What I did😘this emoji as a bestie sign🤦

[@Ajthegamer001]

Good job on helping Ethan and the animation team can’t wait to see your next animation

[@NFrancisco-ls4nb]

Agreed

[@SashaX00..]

ETHAN, NO ONE DOES IT COOLER THAN YOU. YOUR WORKS JUST BLOW MINDS! I'VE NEVER SEEN CHARACTERS FIGHT SO EPICALLY - IT'S SOMETHING INCREDIBLE. ALL YOUR ANIMATION IS A TRUE MASTERPIECE. YOU'RE A REALLY TALENTED ANIMATOR AND DESERVE EVEN MORE VIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS. KEEP IT UP, YOU'RE SIMPLY THE BEST!✨🔥

[@jblaine6104]

YOOOOOOO! I’m always SO pumped when Ethan uploads, and honestly the fact that it’s only every so often actually makes the effect stronger, and right now I’m effectively bouncing off the WALLS!!

[@cynthiacarmona3086]

Me too!

[@atreyasachanscienceandtech6865]

I also😊

[@atreyasachanscienceandtech6865]

I also😊

[@tonyshipton4442]

I KNOW RIGHT!!

[@DreamofNightmare-m1j]

Same.

[@SJs_coding_Tutorials]

I just realized something. In the newest "Nightmare VS Techno", Nightmare and Techno were actually friends at the start. Then, Nightmares eyes turned white, and he started attacking. Then, at the end, he stopped attacking techno and started attacking Clownpierce. My guess is that Nightmare was being controlled by Clownpierce, but in the end he fought it cause he wanted peace with dream. Also, Clownpierce is threatening nightmare to help her, or he will never have peace with dream.

[@amar6343]

I just realized that you use the word her instead of him.

[@TuslynnMarino]

Why y'all care that deeply about genders? It's just a gender mistake, so?

[@amar6343]

@@TuslynnMarino ???????Why????

[@King10094]

Actually Nightmare was nice dream is his brother well nightmare just really wants forgiveness but dream said no because of all the pain he’s made with people you think he deserves a second chance yes or no but clownPierce is controlling him and in this Pacific song nightmare betrayed clownPeires at the end and on a different KZbinr nightmare died and I want him to come back on th next video like👍🏻If you want him to come back. I’m talking about nightmare by the way.😢👑👑👑

[@amar6343]

@@King10094 Dream is branzy

[@ItsDemonsReality]

I can’t wait to see what happens next!! Nightmare wanting to find peace with Dream and ClownPierce being a bit manipulative and I was surprised when Branzy was pretending to be Dream the whole fight. Keep up the great work 🙌🙌

[@BunnysGaming145]

1:03 HITS HARD!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥WERE GONNA BE YOURS FOR ETERNITY FOR THIS ONE!!!!!! 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️💥💥🗣️🗣️ (Eternity…)

[@nightaloryt5653]

Blud the vid hasn’t even come out yet

[@bro12870]

@@nightaloryt5653 he got early access

[@Shields-swords]

💀⛱️🦅🙋‍♂️🧍⚰️🚗😃⛱️😴🙋‍♂️🤯😴

[@BunnysGaming145]

@@bro12870yup!

[@BunnysGaming145]

@@bro12870yup, You’re right!

[@BunnysGaming145]

Lyrics: Searching in The Shadows Of My Dreams. (Of My dreams…) For A Sign There’s Something More, Something That’s Worth Waiting For. But You’re Always Out Of Reach, (Out Of Reach…) Right Every Time I Feel You Slip, Right Out Of My Finger Tips… It’s Like We’re Fighting With Gravity, We’re Headed For a Tragedy, Our Love was a Casualty I Know, That I’m Not My Best, I’m Anything But Perfect, I Know We’re A Mess, I Promise That It’s Worth It. If Youuuuuuu Wanna Be With Meeeee Im Yours For Eternity… Eternity… I Would Keep You Safe From The Storm, Build A Shelter With My Hands, Until Sunlight Shown Again… Maybe That’s Were I’ve Gone Wrong, I’d Do Anything For Love, Anything That’s Close Enough… It’s Like We’re Fighting With Gravity, We’re Headed For a Tragedy, Our Love was a Casualty I Know, That I’m Not My Best, I’m Anything But Perfect, I Know We’re A Mess, I Promise That It’s Worth It. If Youuuuuuu Wanna Be With Meeeee Im Yours For Eternity… Eternity… I Know, That I’m Not My Best, I’m Anything But Perfect, I Know We’re A Mess, I Promise That It’s Worth It. If Youuuuuuu Wanna Be With Meeeee Im Yours For Eternity… Eternity…

[@jimrdm71]

Nice

[@BunnysGaming145]

@@jimrdm71Thanks, I’ve Worked On It So Hard! 😁

[@JadeynHamilton-tm7lc]

@CalebsGamong145 Thank you for the lyrics! Now I can sing along!!

[@BunnysGaming145]

@@JadeynHamilton-tm7lcYou’re Welcome!

[@Ash_quacks]

EXCUSE ME? HOW HAS KZbin NEVER RECOMMENDED THIS TO ME AND HOW DO YOU NOT HAVE MORE SUBS???!!! THIS IS THE BEST ANIMATION! THE LORE, THE ANIMATION, THE QUALITY!!!!! *chef’s kiss*

[@annetteescobar8041]

Why chefs kiss tho

[@comictitan4509]

A small detail I noticed is that from 2:26-2:46, Nightmare's body seems to be animated at a lower frame rate than everyone else. I dunno if that's just an animation thing or if it's implying that that *isn't actually Nightmare fighting*. In all of his previous fights he was a smooth and dexterous axeman, but here he isn't. His moves look choppy and robotic, every action taken seperate rather than a practiced flow of moves, which makes me think that Clown's face overlaid on the white rectangle while Nightmare is falling means that Clown is controlling Nightmare in a way, maybe because he was the one he revived him? Clown would be unfamiliar with Nightmare's body and his muscle memory, so he just chains moves together instead of smoothly transitioning from hit to hit to hit like Nightmare does normally.

[@hichewies]

i think you might be onto something here, at 2:15, it looks like he's being controlled, but why would he kill his own mercenaries?

[@comictitan4509]

@@hichewies He can bring them back infinitely, he's probably manipulating them into wanting to kill Nightmare even more, for revenge.

[@Shadow_Puraimu]

It's just an animation style don't get your hopes up because other animators or even movies uses this style

[@hichewies]

@@Shadow_Puraimu you'd expect the other characters to have lower framerates as well though, no?

[@Shadow_Puraimu]

@@hichewies rewatch it in slow mo you can't see it in normal speed because nightmare keeps destroying them

[@Carolina-ly7ih]

funny story: this video comes out at 2:00 am in Italy but I set an alarm to watch this animation as soon as it came out because I was too curious

[@Sloww_780]

samee xD im in France i do a sleepless night just out of impatience

[@JackofcardsYT]

I have to say, Ethan here made ClownPierce more scary then need be and it's amazing. Dude is using illusions and all those sort of tricks. Keep up the great work EthanAnimatez.

[@vro0mxyz]

wow! I like how you did the Into the Spiderverse thing - animated nightmare at a different framerate, similiar as to what they did with the spidermen. Good Job! Really shows how it isn't nightmare, but a body controlled by clown. Also, I like how he surpasses his own psychical limits and fights off a group of 5 people, which he coulndn't do if he was "himself", and neither could techno. But that could lead to a psychical strain, as clown does not know Nighmare's psychical and mental limits.

[@Hoppy_Hopscotch-Y]

Clownpierce is almost like some other villains in movies/shows, he finds something within the person who just beat him, and wants to guide him on the path to power

[@VoltCraft-rj4zs]

The reason nightmare beat clown is because clown was extremely weakened, in the end episode he tanked an arrow and a trident straight to the chest, he had to preform the ritual to revive nightmare and then he was in the dead center of nightmares explosion. And in nightmare vs techno, even tho clown was extremely week he controlled techno and nightmare (more nightmare) into fighting and showing them nightmares past. In theory he was weekend in both the last 2 episodes but if he is fully recovered he would destroy nightmare just like he did with techno

[@Volistic]

I keep rewatching this and I just noticed right before Nightmare hits branzy, Branzy says When were done with you. Were being the key word if it really was dream, Dream would have said I not were. I think that was the moment Nightmare realized that wasn't Dream.

[@Fishing_mission]

We are we’re

[@keanufornerino]

ohhh i know what you mean when Branzy says when we're done with you, at that moment nightmare knew it wasn't dream😮 thanks otherwise I wouldn't have noticed it🫡

[@Volistic]

@@keanufornerino Your welcome. Detail like that while small once noticed cant be unseen and really make things more interesting in my opinion. Its like finding a piece of treasure in a sea of sand.

[@Guardian1196-j4v]

Clowns poem makes more sense now specifically the "violets are blue, in the the shadows they mourn" part because we see nightmare in a void when the door to life is opened at the end of the season 2 video and in this video we see nightmare in a void while mourning dream at the first moment of this video and the also "roses are red but tainted with scorn" part since scorn means either to hate something or to think its worthless which might be nightmare hating himself for what he did to dream and the others or he dislikes techno for you know killing him

[@RetiredExperiment]

2:52 I feel bad for Nightmare, Clownpeirce is Forcing him to do his biding and kill TechnoBlade, Blade = TechnoBlade. GeorgeNotFound better change the tides of this series. If he will even wake up cuz its been 3 YEARS of the series. GEORGENOTFOUND HAS BEEN SLEEPING FOR 3 YEARS-

[@comictitan4509]

So excited to find out 1. How Dream is alive (maybe he's tied to Nightmare, like some people have theorized?) and 2. Why his mask is broken in the thumbnail. Through the previous two seasons, we've yet to see a mask damaged. They only drop when their wearer is slain.

[@BartoszJakoniuk]

He might be some sorta of memory as well and thats why he looks like a ghost. But tbh connection theory still makes more sense to me

[@yourtestpaper]

I think dream is helping techoblade in vol.2 of the sleepwalking so the mask was damage or dream was teleported in the end of vol.1 sleepwalking and fight clownpierce so clownpierce took her power do you guys notice the end of the vol of sleepwalking

[@drimbas_cs]

The mask will break during the fight and note that we don't see Dream's eyes - this is a detail to pay attention to

[@parttimebowyer156]

@@drimbas_cswell.. since half of the mask is broken we would see dream’s eye but we don’t. the mask isn’t broken enough to see dream’s eye

[@comictitan4509]

Spoilers to any of you that haven't watched it yet, but we now know why the mask broke. It wasn't the real one, it was a fake!

[@Kingbob_cool]

I thought nightmare was just a evil version but showing lots of his past story makes him him looks like he is just alone in the world like everyone don't see him after he saw his pass he is regretful for everything he had done in the past

[@ZymosEditz]

I Feel So Bad For Nightmare Here! He Thought He Was Finally Reunited With Dream But It Turned Out To Be Branzy With Dream's Mask! I Think His Power Works As He Can Transform Into Anyone He Wishes If He Has A Piece Of Their Clothing Intact. Since The Mask Was Broken, Branzy's True Face Was Revealed, This Was Also Foreshadowed In The Thumbnail With Dream's Mask Having A Purple Glow And The Hair Being Branzy's Hair Instead Of Dream. Also In 0:50 We Can Clearly See A Transclucent Outline Of Branzy's Hair. Idk What People Be Thinking By Saying DREAMS BACK!! Clearly He Isnt.. Yet. From What We've Seen So Far Dream And Nightmare Seem More Than Just Blood Related.. They Seem Soul Related. Does This Mean Dream Would Be Revived Alongside Nightmare? Who Knows? Also, Will The Hearts Affect His Personality And Make Him Corrupted If He WAS Revived Through The Same Procedure As Nightmare? I Dont Think So! Because Dream VS Nightmare S1 Showed Us That Dream Was Not Controlled By His Mask And His Spirit Was Set Free So There Would Be No Medium To Corrupt Dream. The Only Reason Nightmare Became Corrupt Was Due To His Mask Being A Medium For The Negative Energy From The Hearts To Flow In. Now You Might Ask Why Was S1 Nightmare Evil Then? Well, Nightmare's Mask Is Kind Of The Polar Opposite Of Dream's Mask and That Limits His Thought Process To A Lot! It Was Only AFTER Losing The Mask In S1 ( Nightmare vs Technoblade Last Moments ) That Nightmare Stopped Being Evil. Nightmare Was Looking Around Frantically While Being Scared. This Does Show He WAS Aware Of What He Was Doing But Now That The Mask Is Gone, He's Able To See His Misdeeds A Lot Clearer. Now This Got Me Thinking.. IF Nightmare's Spirit WAS TRAPPED In His Mask.. Why Wasnt Dream? Like, They Are Connected Together! Or It's Possible That Nightmare's S1 Weapon Was A Medium That Kept Him And Dream Connected! After Dream And Nightmare Seperated, We Never Got To See Nightmare Use His Spear Again ( It's Been 2 Episodes ) If This Is NOT True, Then It's Wise To Assume That The Green ORB Flowing Away Was Dream's Spirit Being Captured Into Another Object. Possibly His Battle Axe? Overall, If Nightmare = Dream, Then Dream WAS Revived And IS BACK. Orr If Nightmare ≠ Dream Then Dream Isnt Back.

[@SlinkyCorn]

WOAH WOAH WOAH WOAH!!!! YES YES YES YES!!!!!! MORE NIGHTMARE!!!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉 I was taking to myself/complaining about how it’s been 5-6 months since the last episode and the last post said “soon” then immediately saw this 😂. OMG IM SO EXCITED!!!, 5 months FIVE! AND NOW ITS PREMIERING TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!! MORE NIGHTMARE!!!! The past haunts him

[@SofiNightyNight]

Bro I felt the same way just inpatiently waiting lol

[@DreamofNightmare-m1j]

Also, Ethananimatz, I really liked your old series, "Masked". Beautiful story, though sad, and you paired the music with the videos great!👍 Poor Alexa when she realized she accidentally killed her boy friend.😢

[@hck3r199]

I was so surprised when I saw Branzy as Dream

[@joelbalswick2438]

Same

[@danishrehman6669]

Yea

[@hasanali8892]

I thought it was purpled for some reason

[@burnbrighter6445]

I feel so bad for Nightmare! He didn't deserve any of this. ❤for Nightmare. Its crazy that he managed to take out of LifeSteal though-

[@Error_ender]

Yeah. But I feel like lifesteal are being used. Clown is not helping them. I feel like if spoke hade his operator (or he still has it) then he should get rid of clown

[@SJs_coding_Tutorials]

This is personally the best EthanAnimatez animation yet. Also very good plot at the end.

[@gemzilla8530]

Yo. It feels like Nightmare is even stronger than he was at the end of season 1! This is going to be so interesting!

[@Rifqi_O.S]

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[@bertpana5571]

I'm so excited for this new battle to come it's been years since i didn't watch ETHAN animations

[@sameermahajan7664]

The blades dance is white eyes and clownpierce's symbol and axe. He wants to HOST nightmare with his soul power 3:02

[@Malikimusmaximus]

Oh yeah baby it's time once again For dream and nightmare to have another epic battle Let's go😆

[@Wxd3-j5k]

Me trying to fit S1 into the plot of the other two seasons. Attempt 1. Sleepwalking S1 Ep 1: Dream Vs Nightmare. After Nightmare knocks out dream (This is in episode 1 of season 3 Dream also could have died but for the sake of this theory let’s say Dream didn’t) Nightmare decides that he is done being ignored by everyone and he enters the Mindscape where the first battle of the series takes place after Nightmare wins this fight and he has now fully possessed Dream. Riptide: S1 Ep2: “Dream” Vs Sapnap This episode is essentially Nighmare vs Sapnap but it’s whatever ig. This video says that this battle still is taking place in the mind scape (I think they called it something different back then but it’s pretty much the same place) This proves that Sapnap is the only other person in the series besides Clown, Dream and Nightmare that knows how to tap into the mind scape. I believe this is why Sapnap by his expressions throughout the video looks the most determined to win as he thinks he’s the only possible person who could get Dream out of the mind scape as Sapnap was the only person left who could tap into the mind scape. As all hope from Sapnap’s face fades once he realizes he is defeated… He was the only one who could save Dream and he lost… Slow Down S1 Ep 3: “Dream” Vs BBH Goofy red people fight each other. (Ik there is probably a lot of things I’m missing in this episode but while this is in my opinion one of his best animations it lacks in story telling. But maybe I’m wrong, idk. Fade Away S1 Ep 4: “Dream” Vs Techno This was originally meant to be the end of sleepwalking however I did find some interesting things. First off, Technoblade I feel like knows something about all of this. While BBH and Sapnap kinda hesistated to fight Nightmare/Dream Technoblade knew that Nightmare had corrupted dream too much and knew that the only way he could end this was by killing Nightmare/Dream. In the end however I believe that maybe it wasn’t the photo of Dream and Technos friendship that made Dream break away from Nightmares control for a brief moment. but because Nightmare was weakened when he saw what he had always wanted, Friendship. Nightmare didn’t lose in Sleepwalking when he died as he would just be revived the next season. Nightmare truly lost when he saw that photo. Sleepwalking Season 1 ends with Nightmare and Dream dying. Based on the “secret” message at the very end of season 3 and the end clip at season 2. It is clear that Nightmare has a choice that was unlocked to him after he saw the photo at the end of season 1. He may make a choice to join the light where there is peace and forgiveness for his past sins or he could join the darkness where there is nothing but fear and anxiety where Nightmare would “Eternally Burn” Ain’t no way I wrote all that. Anyway I need to save my sleep schedule I got a little off track (btw there’s no way I didn’t misspell something and no way I’m going back to check if they’re any plot holes with this theory pls tell me so I can adjust the theory) Other Questions that still haven’t been answered or at least I think they haven’t been. 1.Did Nightmare and Clown fuse because they seem like two completely different entities yet a lot of people are saying they have fused. 2.IS ETHAN GOING TO USE ANTFROST. Ok so he appeared in episode 1 of sleepwalking which is why everyone thought he would be the 4th and final opponent but he was eventually replaced with Technoblade I assume or maybe that was always planned idk. I honestly thought he forgot about the character. BUT THEN WHY DO WE SEE HIM IN THE BEGINNING OF SLEEPWALKING 3. I’m so confused. I honestly thought he was going to be the person Nightmare was going to fight in this episode but apparently not even though it looked like that person at the end of season 3 ep1 had claws but whatever. So I wonder if Antfrost will be back eventually from hiding or if he’ll just be forgotten again. (Also if he is used it would be cool to use the original song for the final episode of season 1 of sleepwalking which was going to be Doubt You by I believe Rival? Anyway I’m going to end this Yap session bc I need to sleep I’ll do Sleepwalking Two tomorrow which will cover a lot of a certain clowns poetry. Goodbye.

[@EthanAnimatez]

Nice analysis! I appreciate the detail :)

[@kishankumar5760]

Fake Title: Nightmare VS Dream❌ Real Title: Nightmare VS BranzyCraft ✅

[@annetteescobar8041]

No it’s nightmare vs dream and people like dream

[@Hzhz7231]

​@@annetteescobar8041check again, bro.

[@forju97]

Ya

[@Hzhz7231]

@@annetteescobar8041 check again

[@Darkshadow-x5n]

Nightmare vs Lifesteal ✅

[@ProCreeper]

EPIC EPISODE I will have to make sense of the lore another time, but this was AMAZING. Loved how when nightmare went full demon mode his attacks got choppier.

[@NFrancisco-ls4nb]

Dream: When WE'RE done with you, your name will old no more weight than a dying breath! Nightmare: ( WE'RE?) *REALIZES*

[@JadeynHamilton-tm7lc]

REALIZES this is not my brother

[@TypicalNobody5]

Theory:Only Dream and Nightmare have the same mask and have the same hair that could mean that Nightmare and Dream could be related most likely twins.But I don’t think they know so that could mean Nightmare is Dreams’s long lost twin.

[@Dino_Power]

This is literally so amazing watching nightmares character grow over the episodes keep it up it’s amazing I can’t wait for the next one!!!

[@sameermahajan7664]

BRANZY HOSTED THE SPIRIT OF DREAM 1:58

[@BaldiBendyGasterFan]

Anyone who is willing to apologize for all the things they’ve done, deserve a second chance

[@Lizzie-o4j]

Poor nightmare he seemed really scared

[@ivanmw]

ya he needs help

[@diavol3926]

Ofc like dream's power is scary af

[@GameX-s9g]

True

[@Fa_deSonic]

Wait,who is Nightmare? Is he and Dream related? They look pretty similar

[@Lizzie-o4j]

@@Fa_deSonic yes, their like brother, dreams good and nightmare so far is bad. Their opposites.

[@Thunder24tbp]

every thing in this video is perfect. manipulating technique of clown is beyond imagination, the quote is perfect and song fits nightmare personality, keep up the best work.

[@FoxyFoxy-rh9]

I happy for this 0:00

[@Malikimusmaximus]

This feels like a nightmare redemption arc That's, Gotta be what's happening, I'm here for it

[@VoltCraft-rj4zs]

YOO I THOUGHT THIS WOULD BE CLOWN VS NIGHTMARE BUT THIS IS BETTER

[@EntityAnimatez]

Good animation without a doubt!👍 As I understand it, after the explosion when Nightmare was resurrected, Branzy went to Technoblade's house and took Dream's mask and somehow turned into him.

[@Vis-k]

2:30 when animation budget become too high and have to cut some things

[@VoltCraft-rj4zs]

I don’t think that’s what happened

[@Broken_051]

It was on purpose, to give the animation a new taste

[@DUDEBRUHMICE]

So, for a while now, I was under the impression that Clown worked for Nightmare, but judging by the ending of this episode, it’s looking like Clown brought back Nightmare so that Nightmare could work for him Fun fact: every episode (since “Fade away”) has had Technoblade be the main focus (for the most part) except this one

[@nightaloryt5653]

Which makes me wonder just how powerful is clown if he thinks he can control nightmare

[@FizzanaterStellaBlue]

I honestly feel bad for Nightmare. He never deserves anything horrible like this. I can't believe Branzy was pretending to be Dream all the time. This is exactly how I feel about me committing sins in the past, and it was terrible, in my opinion. Please don't be upset or give hate to me.

[@JadeynHamilton-tm7lc]

I agree 💯 %! I feel the same way

[@DRB_xUKx]

Oh why would I be upset or mad my dear sinner..? (: The Past Is My Life. The Present Is My Life. The Future Is What Possesses My Mind.

[@Nightcore_peanut_]

It looks like.. A REMATCH OF SEASON 1!!! Awesome work as always Ethan 👍🏼

[@SlinkyCorn]

OH THEORY TIME! In S2 E2 in the book it’s says below Nightmare’s mask “set him free”. If we go back to S1 E4 when Dream kills Nightmare we don’t see a spirit floating around because it’s trapped in the mask , but when Dream dies we see his mask but his spirit is free, so when Clown revived Nightmare (set him free) all of Nightmare was revived. But as we see at the end is S3 E1 we see Dreams mask, so what I am guessing is that when Dream is revived since his spirit isn’t with the mask, I’m guessing they revive Dream with the same hearts (Deception, Cruelty, and Vengeance) the hearts control his personality, cruel and wanting vengeance, against Nightmare, therefore Nightmare vs Dream. Except it’s not the true Dream, he appears like Dream, but is not Dream. That is unless this is happening in the Mindscape with Clown or something? Edit 2: in the past 5 months my imagination went too wild with what I imagined what could happen next, it was basically after Techno and Nightmare ran off they would run into each other (not literally) and Techno still confused and attacks Nightmare but Nightmare starts trying to talk with Techno they would end up working together to fight Clown, and then odd happy ending. I think I thought of that too much to the point where I forgot how Ethananimatez always has cliffhanger endings and I also forgot to think realistically. But I am now scared of what’s gonna happen in the next episode. I am freaking out.

[@SlinkyCorn]

Ok never mind

[@Mr.toastman]

I do agree with it’s fake dream bc when nightmare destroys dreams mask it reaveals a random person

[@Mr.toastman]

Also as we see when dreams axe was thrown at nightmare (when nightmare was powering up fighting everyone) and I know dream(fake dream as I suppose) it showed purple and dreams has green eyes not purple when the make brown it showed purple eyes and a purple glow around dream

[@Mr.toastman]

And with a purple glow around drams axe

[@Mr.toastman]

And he has to be fake since we saw dream die and his soul like go somewhere but like u said slinkycorn he was supposedly set free from the darkness

[@knolishaandell2848]

❤❤❤ Amazing animation, you guys did awesome! I've always loved the way you've done the fighting the movements are so smooth and fluent especially when a character is using a heavy weapon because you always show the weight behind every swing and it's always so satisfing to watch. I also loved "dream's" reaction when he and nightmare met; with no hesitation he just started attacking him and didn't even say a word. It was such a cold reaction to seeing his brother but also a very understandable one and I loved every second of it.❤❤❤

[@JadeynHamilton-tm7lc]

It wasn’t Dream. It was Branzy.

[@alvincaga2402]

this aint a fight this is nightmare having emotional scenes, and nightmare dodging every attack until he gets into angy mode

[@paradox6845]

I’m slightly proud of myself for figuring out the fake Dream was Branzy b4 the reveal just based off his weapon. I have a love hate relationship towards Nightmares stocky/glitchy movements in his fight against the Lifesteal members. On one hand it’s somewhat cool as it kind of resembles what Nightmare’s life is like after resurrection, his dread about the past, and his emotions. But on the other hand, it seemed like the animation was a little rushed, making the fight not as smooth as it could’ve been. But maybe I’m just yapping. Good animation still 👍

[@ProCreeper]

It’s kinda like when someone is possessed. As an animator, I see it more as a stylistic choice than a factor of whether or not I like the video.

[@paradox6845]

@@ProCreeper yeah possessed would be the right term. don’t get me wrong, there hasn’t been a single video Ethan has released that I haven’t enjoyed, it’s just something I noticed immediately out of the animation that I haven’t seen in the others

[@ProCreeper]

@@paradox6845 Yeah I see what your saying. The animation community that I’m apart of is going through a phase of using lower fps and making the animations choppier. So I’m pretty used to it.

[@KauaAlmeida-iu7to]

Isso e verdadeiro

[@KaidenGaston]

amazing had no clue clown pierce was involved but nightmare seems like he doesn't want to hurt people and he wants his brother back

[@maryray4960]

“had no clue Clownpierce was involved” *My brother in the force did you watch the rest of the series?*

[@jimrdm71]

@@maryray4960He’s talking about this episode

[@drimbas_cs]

Well, I have a couple of questions. 1. Was Brunzy's Dream mask genuine? Did the mask help him imitate Dream, or did Branzy do it with his purple cape? 2. Why did ClownPierce kill his mercenaries with the help of Nightmare? He could have simply ordered them not to fight Nightmare. Although, according to the last frames, Nightmare was exhausted and could not fight, this is exactly what the Clown wanted. I'll be waiting for the next episode.

[@Nilviyan]

Hay

[@Nilviyan]

What sub

[@Nilviyan]

Bro

[@Torjaly]

Yeah I wanted to ask that too

[@What_Mark]

I still don’t know if I was a tree in the background

[@not_a_607]

ETHANNN NOT ANOTHER CLIFF HANGER AGAINNN, BTW I ABSOULETLY LOVE UR ANIMATIONN , PLSSS CAN WE HAVE THE NEXT VID SOON, UR SO GOOODD BROO DEFINETLY UNDERATED

[@EagleEditsClips]

Great job, Ethan and your patreons I'm confused about how branzy turned to dream when the mask was on his face but I am glad to see another series of sleepwalking

[@JadeynHamilton-tm7lc]

Clown cast an illusion. I think

[@DreamofNightmare-m1j]

Also, I agree. Poor Nightmare is just trying to find peace with himself and his brothers' memorie.😢

[@weiduan2843]

Ngl, I thought dream was actually gonna come back but I was kinda disappointed it was just branzy but still great video

[@sahmajkennedy3016]

There’s literally no other animators I’ve ever seen that has beaten you guys in animating such a storyline like you do!!!

[@nairolf1530]

It's the most beautiful fight I've seen in my life and the best of the whole series even if the others are also incredible and the animation is well done by the whole team. sorry if I write badly I'm French

[@Nightmare-di3ng]

I hope dream forgives nightmare after what he did🙁

[@AstroBladeZ]

Honestly I don't want to consider this nightmare the villain anymore

[@elijah6189]

Yeah he's a victim at this point clown pierces is the True Villain

[@What_Mark]

2:43 bro what the hell was branzy gonna do to nightmare with no weapon 💀

[@EthanAnimatez]

"YOU THINK YOU CAN STOP ME??" 👹👹

[@What_Mark]

Nightmare: Yup 💀🤣

[@VoltCraft-rj4zs]

@@EthanAnimatezLOL

[@AnirudhAraveti]

Hey Ethan do you got any tips for starting to become an animator?

[@PexPex_0]

I want to ask everyone, Why is it that every scene like an explosion scene or something like that always shows a flower? Is there a mystery to the flower shown?

[@hichewies]

i think he just likes putting flowers in those scenes

[@JadeynHamilton-tm7lc]

The flower is there throughout the whole vid. I think there is some significance to this flower

[@matasurmanavicius2998]

Maybye it's a reference to Krefix's video where Dream fought against Technoblade, in which Dream was corrupted by Nightmare through a mysterious flower

[@JadeynHamilton-tm7lc]

I did not think of that… maybe

[@elixbombermore]

the flower is like the chair from skibidi toilet

[@Palidan_of_Light]

This animation was just so good though, and the stories Ethan tells in them are just so, so amazing, and i feel bad for the people who haven't seen this amazing work. He and the team just have so much skill, and have inspired me to do so many things, it is just insane. Dream isn't alive, i think, because the face behind the shattered mask looks like one of the people from the lifesteal SMP episode, and he also has the exact ax that dream was using. So he posed as dream to get nightmare to fight the group, so clown could get him on his side when they go to face technoblade and the group. I also suspect that technoblade's group might go get dreams mask, and try to revive him, and maybe a couple others to stand a chance. Other minecraft youtubers might also get involved.

[@EthanAnimatez]

So glad to be a part of your inspiration! ❤

[@KennethPanjay]

Its branzy disguised as dream

[@elijah6189]

Nightmares the best character you've ever made evening I congratulate you on the writing of him literally one of the best characters in terms of writing I've seen in a Minecraft animation

[@GabeJudd-i7e]

all I have to say, Ethan is an absolute legend

[@FORSTAKEN_YT]

clown was the villain in this story is such a plot twist ngl

[@ivanmw]

PLEASE ETHAN DON'T MAKE US WAIT AS LONG AS YOU DID TO MAKE THIS EPISODE!!!!!!!

[@Monia255]

Oh, the next part of the Sleepwalking Series is finally here I cant wait for the premiere

[@Curvedplayz]

We always again wanted to see nightmare vs dream 🎉🎉🎉🎉 also u seriously starting it at 5 30 am for me

[@icywind177]

Wow, it’s been a while. You’re still making great edits and improving your animation skills. It’s well developed and how you put the hard work on it. Keep up the great work Ethan! Maybe one day. We can talk more if you’re willing to.

[@Greninjathepok3]

FINALLY IT'S OUT!!!!, THE COUNTDOWN BEGINS HEHEHE

[@Greninjathepok3]

10 HOURS REMAINING 👹

[@manugaming2157]

YESSSS, FINALLY BROOO❤❤❤❤ BUT WAIT I THOUGHT DREAM DIED 😭😭

[@SofiNightyNight]

That’s what I’m saying, he did die, when was he back. I made some stupid theory in the comment if you wanna see lol

[@maryray4960]

“Abigail is not coming back” *Abigail comes back.* “Nightmare is not coming back.” *Nightmare comes back.* “Rain has no reason to be in this series.” *Jeffvix gives the best possible reason in the world.* “Dream is not coming back.” *Dream comes back.* Are there any MORE Minecraft animators who wanna unintentionally make me look remarkably incompetent and incredibly stupid? Edit: Squared Media apparently, cause now SOW is potentially uncancelled despite 4 years of hopelessness.

[@comictitan4509]

Songs of war is potentially uncancelled?!?! Where can I find more about this.

[@maryray4960]

@@comictitan4509 The comments on Squared Media’s latest post.

[@comictitan4509]

@@maryray4960 okay thanks. I don’t follow them but I did love SOW when I watched it, and it was such a cliffhanger

[@elijah6189]

​@@maryray4960I'm actually going to cry if it's true songs of war is a f****** masterpiece

[@elijah6189]

​@@maryray4960also you should have said anything

[@JustCallMeOnix]

omg I just realized, Branzy can be slightly seen while fighting nightmare disguised as dream, he's slightly transparent... If u don't understand, give me time to rewrite the comment :P

[@shlokesaha3363]

Plus Branzy was using his axe to fight Nightmare. For this it can be understood that he was not dream

[@emmanuelrajraymandmoe]

So are you saying that branzy is the dream In disguise

[@ManfaceMan-v4s]

i noticed that

[@NotJohnLOL]

True and when the lifesteal SMP came branzy was not with them

[@JustCallMeOnix]

@@emmanuelrajraymandmoe The purple eyes when Nightmare broke the mask and the white hair was pretty obvious :3

[@Ajthegamer001]

Someone is going to be like they aren’t dead. Well spoke is decapatated. Parrot is dead and so are the others from the explosion give that parrots eyes are open and the others are motionless

[@Ajthegamer001]

And if they do come back to life then they must have so many totems

[@nightaloryt5653]

Didn’t parrot get stabbed in the face with technos trident, spoke was shot into his own black hole, branzy took a stab to the stomach with the trident and a few other instances

[@Ajthegamer001]

@@nightaloryt5653 yes. Yes they did

[@Error_ender]

Man idk. Spoke is maybe immune to his black hole but he idk about the others so they prob had totems. If I’ll have to say, I think spoke and parrot were the most important in nightmare’s revival bc they had to get his mask. It prob makes sense that they or clown still have the mask cause as we saw, nightmare didn’t have it

[@e_ll4567]

Nightmare has his mask at the start of this episode he puts it down on the side of the cliff he was sitting on he just wasn't wearing it

[@SixHexKeptMeInTheDark]

Why do i feel like techno is going to intervene in this fight? Nightmare was just misunderstood by everyone. Just because someone has evil powers doesn’t mean they are evil themself.

[@Minebite_923]

i support that

[@TakakiM-sr1df]

Agree

[@SixHexKeptMeInTheDark]

It wasn’t just a 1v1 this time so I think it could easily be possible that dream is back, and is trying to merge with nightmares powers to create their whole form to overpower Clownpierces plans.

[@mickjohnyasay9142]

Yeah he didn't mean to do that to dream.

[@TakakiM-sr1df]

@@mickjohnyasay9142 I subscribed to you also nice profile

[@Levanderstonegaming]

I noticed that nightmare didn't attack Dream/Branzy until his eyes turned completely white. My theory is than Nightmare is being possessed by Clown. In the end of S2, clown sacrificed himself to revive nightmare. I think Clown's soul became intertangled, or at least a part of it, with Nightmare's, which allowed clown to take over nightmare, causing to him to attack even though he didn't want to. My theory for why nightmare didn't attack was that he was trying to get redemption. I think this season is going to end by Nightmare and Techno teaming up to defeat clown, but in a similar way to how S1 ended, Nightmare will fade away when clown is defeated because there souls were linked. This could also be what clown was referring to when he said "But betray me, and in darkness you'll eternally burn" Clown knows that there souls are linked

[@maryray4960]

Did you not see Clown at the end of this video, or like, any of his scenes in the last video?

[@Nightshade77]

Ik everyone thinks dream is alive but I have a theory what if clown disguised branzy as dream since lifesteal works for clown except rekrap and since nightmare betrayed clown he sent lifesteal on nightmare to kill him. Just my theory Edit: i think maybe after that if lifesteal fails clown will kill nightmare himself. Edit 2: I just realised it might be wrong bc when dream was talking it sounded like dream not branzy and ik that bc otherwise nightmare would of known it was branzy so unless clown figured out a way to make branzys voice sound like dreams voice this is wrong clown might of found a way since he does have magic powers.

[@ImPositiv3]

I don’t think this one is true. Nightmare is like a YinYang to Dream. One cannot exist without the other as seen in Fade Away. So reviving Nightmare would then be reviving Dream, since Nightmare can not actually exist without Dream.

[@Nightshade77]

@@ImPositiv3 yea that probably true but it’s just a theory I had

[@Galaxynicktheninja]

LETS GOOOO!!! But i need to wait for 23 hours bruh 😫😫😫but IM SOOO EXCITED!!!🤩🤩🤩

[@DreamofNightmare-m1j]

I saw this on comment on a different vid from the series, saying "I wander how dream and nightmare can see without any holes in their masks". Answer: the strap that holds the masks to their heads line up with the eye holes, to were they just look like their part of the strap.

[@blaykecarlsongaming]

I knew it wasn't dream when he pulled out that axe. Dream had a green one like nightmare. I knew it was branzy.

[@shlokesaha3363]

Yea me too.

[@VoltCraft-rj4zs]

Ngl I thought dream stole branzys axe LOL

[@JadeynHamilton-tm7lc]

How would Dream get the axe tho? Branzy had it the whole time

[@VoltCraft-rj4zs]

@@JadeynHamilton-tm7lc fighting branzy and stealing it from him? It’s obvious Dream would destroy branzy which would be his easiest target

[@PhantomHunterOfficial01]

Yo Ethan is the goat can't wait for the premiere

[@Hotwheels8524]

THAT WAS SOOOOO GOOD. with nightmare wanting to be redeemed but clownpierce making that hard is so interesting.

[@sameermahajan7664]

I think clownpiecrce is trying to control nightmare. Did you notice what nightmare saw in the dark place? It was clownpierce surrounded in neon white. Then nightmare's eyes turned the same white and he used clownpierce's axe like it was his.

[@DreamofNightmare-m1j]

I'm pretty sure the axe was Nightmare's, and that Clowns curse over Nightmare caused Nightmares rage and power to erupt.

[@StarlightWarriorGamerJames]

LEETTT'SSSS GGGOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! Edit: I posted a comment on the previous episode of this series, and two commenters thought that Dream didn’t return at the end, but I now rest my case.😏

[@MoonSpider1]

Well it is Dream but at the same time it kind of seems like its branzy

[@StarlightWarriorGamerJames]

​@@MoonSpider1 It was probably Branzy in disguise. I just rewatched it and I noticed that.

[@ozzyashton1746]

Yall that’s not dream That’s literally branzy’s weapon

[@A4DOni]

Yknow, I think Dream might be ClownPierce trying to deceive him. Just saying.

[@PhoenixGXXD-iz7bk]

It was brandy pretending to be dream

[@jimrdm71]

@@PhoenixGXXD-iz7bkHe’s saying the real Dream might be a fake Clownpierce.

[@A4DOni]

@@PhoenixGXXD-iz7bk I posted this comment before the video released.

[@A4DOni]

Not what I was saying. What I said before the video was posted (since the premiere was posted a day earlier) was that Dream was probably just an illusion by Clown.

[@nightaloryt5653]

1:57 is crazy

[@BunnysGaming145]

Yup!

[@Only_Nightmare]

Ethan I really love this episode I watched so many times since it released.. While I am waiting for the next episode I'll make a manga series of dream and nightmare's fight for you

[@nightaloryt5653]

BRO THAT PLOT TWIST WAS CRAZY BUT WAY TO SHORT! WE NEED MOREEE 😭😂

[@TheKernowKids]

What did you animate this on?

[@maryray4960]

Mine-imator.

[@harleyhart1497]

Hell yeah! And lemme just say, I KNEW IT! I KNEW IT! I KNEW SINCE EP 2 OF SEASON 2 DREAM WOULD RETURN! TAKE THAT ALL YOU DOUBTERS!

[@BunnysGaming145]

Yayyy!

[@BunnysGaming145]

Yeah bud!

[@harleyhart1497]

@@BunnysGaming145 Thanks

[@Neptunethe4thgasgiant]

1:58 are you sure about that

[@harleyhart1497]

​@@Neptunethe4thgasgiant My apologies. I made the comment before the release. I'm still betting he returns tho

[@Cynking-m2n]

I like how Branzy says stuff like "pay for your sins" this is intentional because in lifesteal five(please correct me if I'm wrong) parrot and ashwag got married in Minecraft and idk if it was a joke but princezam said that branzy is leaglly a person who holds the deeds during the marriage

[@FateRQWasTaken]

BOIS ETHAN MADE A NEW VIDEO LETS GOOOOOO

[@CrueI_Klng]

Wow. I just found this channel again, you probably don’t recognize me I’ve changed my channel name a couple times but I was a huge fan of you a while ago, and I am so impressed on how good this is, it’s crazy. Your dream smp videos you made like 3 or 4 years ago got me interested in your channel. I wanted to animate at the time so you were a big inspiration for me, and it’s crazy how much you’ve improved. You should watch one of your videos from back then and then this, the difference is amazing. Sorry for the long comment. Congratulations, never stop doing what you love.