I can remember, years and years ago
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
Goodbye_from_Fox_In_A_Box — 10 years ago(November 01, 2015 04:19 AM)
(My account is 13+ years old), I posted on here how ridiculous it was that the kids always fell asleep during the day. And that Alice was always asleep along with them.
Yes, I realize it's a horror movie where a lot of things don't make sense. And you could probably argue that Alice wasnt getting much sleep at night because of her nightmares, but still.
Teens falling asleep during the day? FFS.
Do not taunt happy fun ball.
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loui_b452 — 10 years ago(March 27, 2016 04:15 AM)
At first, Alice had no control over the telepathic power she got from Kristen. Thus, when she nodded off, for just a second, she'd take the next person on her mind with her.
Like you said, Alice was beginning to avoid sleep due to losing Kristen (and likely additional fear from the deaths of Kristen's friends, Joey and Kincaid). So, when she nodded off in class, she took Sheila with her. After, it becomes a string of the same occurrence. Alice avoids sleep because of the loss of another friend, she sits in class, hoping her next friend won't suffer the same fate, and sadly THIS is exactly why they die: The next person's on her mind when she nods off comes along for the ride.
We see with Debbie that Alice begins to have some control over who comes in with her. Debbie was only brought in when Freddy purposefully scared Alice, making her want protection from yet another friend. With Dan, Alice eventually gains the ability to not just bring others into her dreams but enter the dreams of another, meaning she finally has control.
This is also why NOES5 happened the way it did. By that point, Alice had full control over her Dream Master powers (and, by extension, the telepathic power she got from Kristen). But, little did she know, being a Dream Master is heredity (it's implied her mother was the Dream Master before her) and Alice's unborn son gained her powers too. Also, a mother and unborn child's dreams are connectedfor some reason. Thus, Freddy was able to hop over from Alice's dreams into Jacob's and use Jacob's inexperience with his developing powers to bring him more victims.
tl;dr: In NOES4 & 5, It's not about the OTHER kids falling asleep. All that needed to happen was for Alice and then Jacob to do so and bring someone along with them