"What murderer would wait for the cops?" It's actually a common thing that the first suspect the police go after is the person who found the body/only witness. The guy also had a bad reputation in the town and the town's police personally did not like him. He was screwed either way. Especially since it would be impossible to find the real killer so he'd be the only person who could've killed her.

“Veteran Lucid Dreamers” is a term I never thought I would hear

You can pull stuff out of the dream, eh? Go in like "oh no, is that a gold bar Freddy? That's my biggest fear! Wealth and fortune is terrifying to me, please no!" and then wake up with like 45kg of gold bullion

The dad not believing her desite the overwhelming amount of crazy, unexplainable events is astounding. Freddy meat blenders a dude and dad is like nah. Daughter manifests a hat in her hand with the same name on it she has been going on about for days. Nahhhh.

This series is funny because I remembered joking as a kid about slasher villain's. I was like Jason and Leatherface are easy to beat, just don't go to Camp Crystal Lake or Texas lol but Freddy is the one, you can't win unless you can dream yourself as the hulk or something, he is definitely the hardest villain to take down

my dreams ARE like pre scripted movies, but sometimes I'll think to myself "wait I don't want that to happen" and the dream setting is like "oh ok you're right we don't want that to happen" and it changes. but I never actually think "this is a dream" I just never question it lol

the way you can tell this movie is really good and cohesive (in addition to having a supernatural antagonist) is that nerd explains genuinely has trouble beating it and theres tons of times where he’s like “yeah the character did exactly what would be reasonable in this situation” or deterministically says “theres honestly nothing they could’ve done” - good scriptwriting mr craven

Just drop a few pallets on his head, jump through a window or four, maybe shine a flashlight on him, and eventually your teammates will get the final Generator done and you can escape out the giant doors on either side. Or, more likely, you'll die and get sacrificed to the giant spider deity in the sky because two of your teammates are trying to blind him with a flashlight at the same time, and the other is hiding in the corner somewhere, t-bagging a hatch in the ground.

I think we all know the only way to beat Freddy is to fall asleep at Crystal Lake. One problem being you are at Crystal Lake at night.

This is one of the most difficult ones to survive from, you are not always that lucid while dreaming so you probably just get yourself killed even if you have a plan and the fortitude to follow it.

“Even if she imagines herself as Jesus with an M-60” that’s one for the books. 🤣

Stuff like the discussion about the metaphysics of Freddy’s dream existence is why this channel is so great. Nerd Explains always has a fresh, creative angle he looks at movies from that keeps him the best of all the “how to beat” channels that are springing up

"You have to learn to dream bigger." -Pulls out a grenade launcher

Honestly, simulating a certain stimuli that you often wake up to would help get out of the dream. Similar to how people associate their alarm sounds with waking up.

The scene at the end with the mom getting pulled though that tiny door window... I watched that as a kid a hundred times on VCR, frame by frame and it was so gnarley. My favorite scene

I live how smooth the dream transitions are in this movie. Awesome film. I watch this movie at least 4 to 6 times a year. It never gets old.

This movie was a masterpiece in the 80s, watch it during holidays at 9 or 10 years old and can t sleep for almost 3 nights after it, so scared by the film that my sweet grandma had to sleep with me to calm me 😅

Freddy Krueger: insomnia: *I'm about to end this man's whole career*

Nancy Thompson will always be my favorite 80’s heartthrob. Heather Langenkamp was just unreal in that performance to me.

I remember somewhere in the movies that Freddy gets his power from the fear of his victims, and if you're not afraid of him, he cant hurt you. Or at the very least, its harder for him to hurt you.

Whoa, 40 minutes? Yessir!

College students who don’t sleep at all: “Dare to challenge me mortal?”

I always thought Tina had that weird dream logic where it makes perfect sense to do things in the dream that are utterly stupid. I understand that she's creeped out, but I sorta wish Nancy had shared with Rod and Glen what she'd figured out about the dreams. I'm pretty sure that Glen had already dreamt of Freddy. He gives a look of shock and recognition when Tina and Nancy are talking about it, but I thought that maybe he just didn't give it nearly enough weight. Rod's neck was broken- you could hear it happen. I also think that when Nancy says that it's all a dream, she means the whole film up to there. That all this bad stuff was just a dream all along.

“Don’t think about Freddy coming and killing you tonight” Me watching this at midnight and about to go to bed: “thanks for the tip”

We need a "how to beat nerd explains" before he makes a video about how to beat the world

There's a true way to become a lucid dreamer. Temperance. Control yourself IRL and you'll control yourself in the dream world (Prefrontal lobe abnormaly developped). You could beat Freddy with a Near-Omnipotent lucid dreamer. Note : Water to your face (espacially blocking the nose) wake you instantly. Wish you the best! Take care.

Well, to address the weird illogical decisions they make while they're dreaming (looking not being alarmed by ghost boy and going after him alone), it absolutely realistic. When was the last time you done logical decisions and/or were aware that you're seeing unreal things while dreaming? Your brain just goes with it as if they're real

opening drawers and make ripples in water are somewhat good reality checks I personally use. Normally the drawer is empty, or have a weird texture, kinda like when you noclip to look at something in the distance to find out it its 2D. And the water will either have the item faze through it, have ripples that are way to strong or the ripples don't go away/take so long.

This is the one movie where you can easily beat it if you have insomnia. What is sleep anyways?

I would simply loop him around a pallet

I had a nightmare where my whole family turned into zombies, it was so vivid and realistic that even when I realized I was lucid dreaming, I couldn't wake myself up.

"She could get a lobotomy, too, but that's hardly a solution either." Man, the medical field sure could've used this knowledge a few decades ago.

"But the stairs are made of extra chewy bubble gum" lmao

Can't believe I only just realized Lin Shaye was the teacher!! Clearly it's time for a rewatch 🤣

“veteran lucid dreamers” is a badass name of a college gang

This video reminds me of how creative A Nightmare on Elm Street was as a concept for a slasher.

Amazing timing lol, I was just about to go watch your “the thing” videos again!

I'd simply haunt Freddy's dreams.

Ultimate Solution to Freddy Kreuger in One Syllable: Speed. The longest anyone's ever stayed up consecutively is eleven days, but it's pretty routine for people with Amphetamine habits to go *months* with no more than forty five minutes of eyes-open staring-at-a-wall sleep per week, mixed in with micro-rests too short for anyone to stab you. I would *definitely* watch the movie where a bunch of girls get hooked on stimulants trying to defeat a dream monster and the rest of the film becomes about the horror of their addiction.

The most vivid and disturbing dream I ever had was being pursued through a hospital by a doctor who was caught murdering the nurses. The hospital only had the two of us in it and it was very well lit, had little obstacles interfering with my running and 100% of the terror was coming from him directly, not the setting itself which oddly seemed to be working on my side. After I made it through a glass door with a square wire mesh through it we both immediately stopped. I was suddenly not myself anymore, I at no point realized this was a dream but I became aware I wasn't human. As if something had just possessed me and my thoughts were being replaced by whatever entity just took over. All I could think about was wanting to torment and murder him, not because he was a killer that was after me, but for no other reason was he was there and I could. Suddenly 4 human-like arms burst out from the floor and ceiling, grabbing each of his limbs and pulling him apart. This would 100% shock and terrify me but inside this particular dream all I could feel was intense malace and joy at his suffering. This one disturbed me for years and I can still remember it vividly. The thing that got me the most is how seamlesly it all played out, and how my thoughts still felt like they were halfway mine, like I had merged with this thing on every level.

Broooooo!!!! I just going through your video catalog again yesterday looking for something I haven't watched. Perfect timing. I'll be saving this for when I get home tonight. Thank you sir. You're a master of your craft.

The dreams are at least semi lucid; it is the dreamer's mind, after all. Just vanish the floor into a void; the fall will jar you out of sleep, and with no ground, there's no chance you'll hit bottom before waking. That said, Freddy would probably just conjure spikes out of the wall or something, to kill you mid-drop, before you wake.

So, does having a nightmare with Freddy in it prevent you from giving yourself powers? Because the few times I had managed to get awareness, I could just do whatever I want.

The knowing about him part I feel was thrown in as an after thought, none of them knew of him before the initial dreams they all had about him.

Amazing video. I cannot stop laughing at that mistake the producers made. When she got that cut from Freddy it was visible only in one frame - then it magically DISSAPEARED for the rest of the movie!

I will forever request on all your videos for a how to survive house of a thousand corpses. This is like my 10th plus video I've commented this on. Mistake me not Mr. Explains. I will keep this going

Ive also read on the Lucid Dreaming reddit that weed prevents dreams, and amplifies their intensity after you stop using it . So going full stoner everyday is an option, but probably a costly one..

How to beat Freddy: become a lucid dreamer and imagine you’re The Doom Slayer. Nobody beats The Slayer.

man these promo transitions are really brilliant. The fact you go from how to explain on how to survive to going to promo's to backis just great

Such a good movie, the first movie that legit gave me scares. Such an interesting and original villain

"not reading in dreams" is something that's confused me for a long time; since i remember a number of different dreams i've had over the years, where i also am fully capable of reading and the text also makes sense...

Imagine Freddy invading a veteran lucid dreamers head and just getting rocked by a giant ass Barney 😂

If Nancy's mom already had the glove, how does Freddy have it in the dream world?

How to beat Freddy Kruger is to have a little more imagination. I'm going to be that annoying kid that always changes the rules in my dreams.

Yes finally !! I requested this a little bit ago pumped to see u did it!:)

I'm so glad you made the home alone reference. I burst out laughing near the end. Great movie but I was a little old when I first watched it

perfect timing just got home from work and nerd explains is my favorite way to relax

All ye gotta do is play the doomslayer sound track and say this line, “ IM NOT IN HERE WITH YOU, “ YOURE IN HERE WITH ME”.

21:25 NEVER look at a reflection in the mirror in a lucid dream. you may see something that terrifies you which is the exact opposite of what you want to have happen in this scenario

Nancy knew she was dreaming when she went to check on Rod. That was her plan. That's why she set the alarm and told Glen to watch her sleep in case she started having a nightmare

"how to beat freddy krueger" easy you tell him he cannot kill you because murder is illegal

It's weird to me how much people have problems lucid dreaming since I was like 16 I have had pretty much only lucid dreams where I know it's a dream and I'm in control. Most of the time I let them play out for fun but if it annoys me or tries to scare me I take over. Completely changing a dream is hard, since it's hard to focus on that much. But slightly changing it isn't as hard

DUDE , WE ARE AT 999K subs , 1000 MORE TO GO!!! im so proud my man , ive been here since 100k :) its so sick to see u grow , keep up the absolutely amazing work!

You know how at the end Labyrinth, Sarah comes to the realization that she was in a dreamlike reality, and does the whole you have no power over me, I kinda get the impression that may also work for this as well.

Always gotta have that first victim to take the L for everyone else

"Even if she imagined she was jesus with an m16" Thats the best line i hever ever heard in my whole life!

I been waiting for this one since day 1 of your channel thank your nerd explains 😗

I love how far this channel has come and so glad that it’s getting the recognition it deserves can’t wait for you to hit 1mil 🥳 👍 ❤️

Please cover Don’t hang up it’s would be a pretty good movie for a how to beat (love ur videos always make my day!!)

Christian Bale's character in The Machinist, would basically be immune to Freddy, lol. Guy went without sleep for over a year.

As a lucid dreamer myself I can recommend doing reality checks in your daily life even if you are sure you're awake. Every time something strange happens. You will get so used to it that you'll do it in your dreams to. Also everyone has a different type of lucid dreaming so don't get discouraged if it doesn't work for weeks or months. I, as a hobby-author, for example started to 'rewrite' my dreams as I was having them. It's like watching a movie At the same time you're writing and changing it until you like it. So yeah. And everyone should try it, it's a freakin Trip every night.

Fun fact: this movie is loosely based on true story. If I remember correctly, it’s based off the weird account of several people dying in there sleep at a research center in the Arctic. As I said, this could be wrong in some places but it’s pretty interesting

I think it’s personal. Kids are very loved by parents, so it hits them harder. In addition to those reasons. Dream Masters, so iffy at that. Though it was later, so fair assumption dream fighting wouldn’t work. Also it’s fire. He was burned. So either resisting it or weakness to. Resistance to seems more likely as he survived (kinda) it.

i have had so many dreams where it's a life or death situation and in my mind i just try to draw the whole thing out for as long as possible lol. like if you're getting caught trying to escape, tell yourself they're not going to kill you yet but capture you again for something worse so you would have more time to plot your escape. i dreamt about attending a death game right inside of my house but it was stressful as hell because i had to protect other people. one of the games they forced me to play was to scream for as loud as you could until they turn of the music. i was running out of breath and needed air really badly so i just told myself "yeah right you're dreaming, just wake up" and i somehow did lol. my heart was beating like crazy and my head was absolutely swimming

As someone with the same last name as Freddy I appreciate this video. My family always joked that he was my uncle

Now this is what I was waiting for!

When I was younger and could dream often, I distinctly remember it feeling like it did feel scripted, yet every once in awhile when I could tell that I was in REM, (without training or even knowledge of lucid dreaming as I was like 15 and younger) I could change details in it like if I was walking slow and felt I really wanted to see where the dream was taking me, I'd speed myself up to a brisk jog and stuff similar to that. It felt like I was apart of a group of people taking turns in adding details to make a crazy story and everyone had to wait their turn. So that's why I could only make an impact every so often in my dream was because it was my turn in the group to add my bit of detail to the story lmao

One of my favorite channels. I look forward to your videos every week

Good video. And almost at 1million, good job dude. 👍

Come on all they had to do was complete their gens and escape 🤦🏼‍♂️

As a university student, Freddy doesn't stand a chance with me. I know nothing of sleep

Love your videos, keep it up! 😉

I like the 'How to beat' videos, but Nerd actually thoroughly explains how to beat these villains.

I love Nerd Explains so much. :)

Step to step guide on Beating him. 1. Play Lucid Dreams. 2. Ascend

"Just be a lucid dreamer and do x" a lot of people in the comments are saying... ehhh Freddy is also a lucid dreamer within your dream. He is not just a nightmare. He is thinking being within your dream. It's not like he'll just stay freddy while you change form or do whatever. He will fight back to get the kill.

I just can’t wait till he hits 1m subs congrats 😉

Yo Freddy used to scare the living shit out of me.

40 minutes of extreme pleasure!! Last line of your script is hilarious 🤣🤣

It's revealed in one of the later movies that blessing his grave is in fact one of the methods to stop him. They do this in a junkyard where his body was left, and in the next movie he is brought back by a dog pissing on his grave, thus revoking its' blessed status, so your solution of getting a priest to bless his grave would actually work

Freddy Krueger: "kills people in their dreames." Me who doesn't see dreams: (insert funny Shaggy meme here) Are you challenging me?

I’d like to see “How to beat Literally Satan in The Witch” or “How to beat the Good family in The Fear Street trilogy” from Netflix.

"Lets follow this blood trail and see where it leads!" Said no Sane person ever.

I've been having issues with being constantly tired. I never go to sleep at the same time every night, tale random naps, and have no sleep schedule. Mom told me that since I do this, I don't enter REM sleep properly, since REM is a scheduled thing (idk how to explain it). How to beat Freddy: just sleep randomly, for a few hours at a time.

Speaking of sleep and the record being 11 days. There’s is a guy currently on twitter doing ( or should i say attempting to do) a 30 day sleep fast. He is currently on day 10. Not sure how much further he can go or if it is even real but this video comes at a perfect time lol

Nerd explains is my favourite youtuber!!!

Your videos are awesome I love the way you explain them

That's the movie that I was trying to remember 'Crank'. Thanks for the help.

Sugestion: how to beat/can you survive the Predator, in the movie Predator (the original)

"Even if she imagines herself as Jesus with an m60." *intense wheezing*