Turns out Sam is not the person you want in your dreams. Aside from being completely thrown by Dean’s deepest wish of having a family (they’re together 24/7 and he still doesn’t know this about his brother?), he’s a pretty freaking scary dreamwalker. Each episode this season, Sam inches further away from the good guy we grew to love in the first two seasons, towards something darker, yet far more intriguing to watch. He didn’t hesitate to coldly take Jeremy out with that baseball bat with two quick strikes to the head. That again pushes the theme that has come up multiple times this season, that because Sam is willing to take a human life he may not be 100% right. Still, considering he was saving them both from an endless nightmare, I couldn’t imagine him acting any other way. He seems all right to me.

There aren’t enough words in the English language to describe how incredible the big Dean vs. Dream!Dean confrontation was. No analysis I gave could do it justice. The diehard fans have all seen it over and over again, wearing out the rewind button, overanalyzing every single aspect of how truly amazing Jensen Ackles was for pulling this off. My reaction involved standing up and fist pumping with a “hell ya!” when Dean finally admitted to himself with rather brutal force that he didn’t deserve to die. What a better way to confront a fractured inner psyche than with an intense battle of words that results in blowing yourself away with a shotgun. Way to take it out your inner demon, Dean! That outburst was the emotional breakthrough for Dean we’ve been dying for, and we were not only shocked but very proud (not to mention teary) to witness this big moment in his life. He wants to live. He needs a hug.

<i>Supernatural</i> constantly plants those little seeds of possibilities so we can overly speculate about them on the boards while waiting desperately for new episodes. This time, the hint was dropped that Sam’s psychic abilities are still there, but good and hidden in the subconscious. After all, in both dreams he was singled out for attack because Jeremy saw him as the threat. That could be because both times Sam was the dreamwalker and not the dreamer, but it also could mean something else. For those who missed the hint from the dream, Bobby’s asking Sam if his quick thinking in making Jeremy’s dad appear had anything to do with the psychic stuff was the sledgehammer hit needed to deliver the point. I personally think it was his psychic abilities, for Sam had only taken the dream root twice. Jeremy had used it many more times to get the same power in the dream.