ABSTRACT
This is a chapter about dreams that hurt. I hope to show that dreams emerge not merely from personal and private concerns as many psychologists have it, but also from collective cultures and from the dense media ecologies that increasingly animate them. Focusing on the United States, I am concerned with young women’s dreams of murder and their relation to the waking-life consumption of mediated stories—stories in which, as one of their selling points, young women figure as victims of lethal violence.
