Thanks for Bringing the Series Back!

Did you just.... make the series exceptionally better. Again. Urgh, I can't believe this. The last one's were medium rare, this is well done. Kudos to the team.

Bro! That animation was so stunning! Nightmare fighting Clown??? The person who revived him?? Something big is going down.

Poor guy…He did not want to remember hurting Dream like that

It seems Nightmare has some kind of trauma and is not as evil as we thought he was.Clownpierce probably brought him back thinking he could make Nightmare put all of his anger into fighting techno.But when Nightmare saw to much he started losing it.But this brings up the question.What is clowns story?Also Nightmare seems to be close to clowns power level cause he was able to fight clown and it seemed like he was winning.But he also caught him by surprise so maybe that was it.But what I'm wondering is who was talking at the end? It seems like they were talking to Nightmare, but it could be someone else like one of clownpierces mercenaries. Edit: I have thought about this further and I have realized Clownpierce was weakened from reviving nightmare and he had recently fought techno, So he was probably no where close to full power.I honestly think Clownpierce might be the most powerful character in the series.I mean he beat techno.Fought Nightmare briefly after he was weakened by both the fight and him reviving nightmare.Granted he still lost it he was still able to somewhat keep up with him.Also I have a theory that Nightmare could have potentially been corrupted by the 3 hearts.And the loneliness he felt as a child probably further corrupted him.I will edit more later.

Dude After volume 2 I was so hyped because of the new level of detail and lighting, and just looking at the thumbnail I think this looks gorgeous!

So, nightmare was actually being controlled by the mask and the clown. He was just broken and misunderstood. And my guess is that when nightmare was brought back, dream was too, and that'd what we just saw. Dream was standing by the tree with his mask in hand. This is by far my favorite of Ethans series, and I can't wait for the next episode.

I was not expecting that! Such characterization! That was brilliant! As a reader, author and editor, well done. You’ve created so much complexity in your previously bland villain, and in only three minutes of screen time. Fantastic work.

As they once said... "Villains aren't born, they are made up..."

sleepwalking 1:rise sleepwalking 2:revival sleepwalking 3:revenge

is he... Alive?! OH MY! This has me Hooked More than Anything Else Props to Ethan and his Team THIS SERIES IS FEEDING ME

I'm a Dream, Technoblade AND Clownpierce fan, if any of them lose in the overall story I'm gonna be sad😥 but- amazing episode. "...Do you choose to walk in the light or dark?"

Everybody is just hoping Dream's gonna appear in this vid once again Edit: I forgot to mention how well you improved these past few months, keep up the good work!

Holy cow, I was not expecting volume 3 to be out today. But hey fine with me and judging by the thumbnail the animation is going to look awesome as ever.

Dude that fight scene at 1:08 was like movie level style animation, Ethan you and your team deserve an award for this work it’s phenomenal. 🏆

They Keep getting BETTER AND BETTER the Nightmare vs Clown Pierce was SICK!

Thank you Nightmare, for doing the right thing

This was so amazing that there are no words for the level of amazingness! Everyone did SPECTACULAR! The lighting, the crazy fights, the sheer amount of emotions... so, so good. And my heart really hurts for Nightmare. I can't wait to see what's in store for the rest of season 3! 😁 Also, who else saw that little message in the corner at the very end?? Food for thought, there.

Volume 3 already? And this was so cool, switching between reality and not and seeing nightmares past! Love it

Every time it switched scenes, I intantly recognized the locations where various characters battled. I have missed this series, and I'm glad it's back, even if for only a brief moment.

Dude that was amazing!! Nightmare's always been one of my fav characters and now I feel like I've connected with him so much more 😄 and I hope that man with dream's mask at the end is like a zombie version of dream that would be so cool

What I leant from this is that villains arent made they are born😢

Holy MACARONI the Animation keeps getting better i've been watching the series since 2021!'

The slashes are so cool! The blue and black is perfect! And the ways it’s like memories is awesome!

It’s official, this is the heroes series but with Minecraft KZfaqrs, and this has exceeded all my expectations, and I love how they brought back Nightmare’s akimbo axes

This really turned out pretty good, everyone did an amazing job, thanks for letting me help on your project again after months of waiting!

Even tho I was late this was absolutely amazing really gives nightmare alot more character now he's portrayed the best here I'm glad we're learning much more about him in volume 3 here so amazing can't wait for the next one

I think nightmare is no longer the villain of sleepwalking. he was manipulated and lied to. clown pierce made a mistake by showing him the dream world, and caused him to get angry, causing him to turn on him. ( 2:17 ) also a detail I noticed, the tables have turned. clown did what nightmare is doing to him at 3:18

THEORY TIME!!!! Ok so hear me out. Perhaps Nightmare all along was a seperate and real person from Dream living in his shadow his whole life up until it led him to severely beat and bring down Dream, leading up to the events of the first season. But in the flashback of Nightmare's past we see a young Technoblade watching his friends goofing around. To sum up what i'm saying... Nightmare and Techno knew each other since they were kids, but Techno never noticed him. Now I believe with that, Techno might have changed views on Nightmare and might not try to kill him now that he knows his past. But that might not be the same with Rek and Phil since they didn't see it. So now in the next episode I believe both Nightmare and Techno's group will get hunted by Clown since they left the scene when Clown was subdued. Also I may have theories on the person at the end holding Dream's mask and it could be Antfrost since he survived in the first season, has claws, and now wants to kill Nightmare for his actions. But it also could be another surviving member of the Dream SMP. Overall Nightmare might become an ally this season and may try to redeem himself and fight with Techno. Oh and in regards to the person speaking at the very end of the video... u know the purple text, it could be Ashwagg or even Ranboo (unpopular opinions but meh). I put this together with combinations of other theories.

2:23: *The average animators brain* Amaze animation, keep up the good work dude!

Fantastic job on this series, Ethan! You and your team continue to improve and exceed expectations by miles each and every video. Keep up the good work! We will be there the whole way through.

Nooooooo I knew I'd be mad at myself for watching this before the other episodes came out😭 Amazing job Ethan! Thank you and your amazing team so much for devoting your beyond-master skills and your time to entertain us, your adoring fans!

that was amazing Ethan! You animators have once again created an outstanding animation! Great job all of you!!! Cant wait to see more!

I guess Nightmare wasn’t trying to kill techno he was showing him his past between him and Dream and betrayed Clown which in my opinion was pretty cool

This channel deserves to have 2 million subs and I hope the sleep walking series doesn’t end yet as it’s my fav series

IT'S AMAZING! I CAN'T WAIT TO CONTINUE

For Anyone who's wonders what is the song title here: Rival - Falling (ft. CRVN)

ok i think that clown revived nightmare to use him as a weapon he wanted to control him so i think that now lifesteal smp is gonna be hunting nightmare

I think that this is the best twist that exist in this series

I can’t wait for the next one! Edit: I think I understand now, clownpierce brought back nightmare so he could control them but idk

My primary question now is: Has Nightmare been a separate *person* this whole time? We were led to believe Dream and Nightmare were two aspects or personalities of the same person, but now I'm wondering if Nightmare is maybe his twin? In all the flashbacks, he was separated and ignored, which could mean that Dream was just refusing and ignoring that darker aspect of himself, or Nightmare is a separate being entirely, who lived in Dream's shadow his whole life.

MY GUY HAD A REDEMPTION ARC!!!!!

Amazing !!! Thank ou to continue this series. I'm really hype for the ultimate fight !!!!

This is some Black Plasma Studios level story-telling and scripting. One of the best Minecraft series I've ever seen! Good job Ethan :>

That was incredible storytelling! Ethan and his team were able to communicate exactly what happened with nothing but facial expressions and body language! So impressed!

I love this series Ethan We see that nightmare was misunderstood and just wanted friends Can’t wait to see what happens next

Wait, volume 3 already? That was fast

Seeing you bring back the series makes me feel happy I love your videos

I didn’t know Nightmare had emotions tho

Holy that was so good ay feel bad for nitemare and dream and tecno and this was a good animation and its so nice to see the past of nitemare ay feel bad me craying for nitemare ay did not know he was like this😢😢😢😢

the first fight between Dream and nightmare makes sense now thanks to this episode. This series is truly a work of art. You're amazing, Ethan. Keep up the good work.

Wow, great job! We even got to learn more about nightmares past! Keep up the great work!😁

As great as always. You continue to make a great series. I actually really love this episode, nightmare's back story and all that I really hope he's a good guy starting from now and the concept that there are more than 2 masks is awesome. I'm not sure if the guy at the end is dream bcuz of the weird hand and different clothes and the mask dream wore was at I'm assuming techno's house so for all I know it could be a different person. Anyways as always amazing animation, great storyline. Keep it coming ethan!

Behold. The king of minecraft animation has blessed us again, GREAT WORK ETHAN!

I love the redesigns but I liked nightmare without the black pupil in the red

Okay the last episodes were awesome but this one is a masterpiece and mind blowing 🤯🤯

HELLO INTERNET AND WELCOME TO FILM THEORY!!! JK I'm not matpat, but I have a theory though: So you see how in the first reality segment both techno and nightmare that are in the dreamscape have this purple-ish haze surrounding them, similar to clown's staff around the Purple Heart. This could mean that clown is trying to bring Nightmare back to bring down Techno, but he lost control. Another thing I noticed is right before the scene of Nightmare beating the shit out of Dream as children, Techno hit the PURPLE HEART SPECIFICALLY, WHICH LED TO NIGHTMARE LEAVING THE MINDSCAPE. In the end, its just a theory though, A FILM THEORY-

Bro nightmare has gone nightmare mode 💀

Oh my god I am bing watching this series. I love how this actually connects to an AU a lot of people have about nightmare being ignored by dream. The animations have evolved and the texts, the chapters, omg!!!!!!!

Nightmare dreams gives flashbacks

This is spectacular. Amazing work with the animation. Props to everyone that worked on this.

Can u use feverdream or live on by rival for ur next animation 🙏

Bro accidentally made the BEST animation ever made like THE F*CK ARE THESE MOVEMENTS

AFTER SO LONG THIS WAS AN 11/10

OH MY GOODNESS, ETHAN YOUR FIGHT SCENES ARE _SO_ GOOD!! AHHHHHHHHHH!! ♥️👍

This IS THE BEST EPISODE EVER

Finally, the series is back on, and the battle background looks familiar😇😇😇😇😇😇☺

Words do not express how well done this animation is, the slow motion, the battle that sync each swing with every beat and the fast pace action and evolving lore, very eager for the next one 👍. The only thing I have to say is every time these quality animations end it’s sadness for a month waiting, even then I’ve seen animators take 4-5 months, Good job 👏👏

NOOO WHYYYYYYYYYYY I HAVE TO WAIT FOR THE NEXT PART Great job!!

Technoblade will ALWAYS rise through memories and reality and come out above it all. BEAUTIFUL animation, once again you do a gorgeous job on the battles and effects.

This took me by surprise on so many levels! First of all, kudos for the fast upload. Secondly, during all of this, I just wanted to hug Nightmare. He was alone😢😢. It explained his hate very well. And I wonder who that guy at the end could be.....🤔🤔😏🤔🤔🤔 Congratulations to all who helped make this!👏👏👏👏

Tom animator actually predicted that Dream and Nightmare are brothers except the fact that Nightmare's Dark form isn't separated

OMG! EthanAnimatez I just saw the merchandise of Nightmare, bro I am so blind tomorrow I am buying mine, I'm sorry for not noticing it B4. 😞🥺

they just keep getting better! can't wait for volume 3

I called it I knew he was going to use falling by rival😁👑

Animations, specjal effects and skins are epic, 10/10

Im rooting for myself!

Are we just going to pretend this wasn’t a bad ass transition 0:52

DUH, IM LITERALY INLOVE WITH THIS 😭✌

WHA- Im just on time to see a new series! Keep up ETHAN! BRING OUT ALL THE MOTIVATION! YOU MAKE COOL VID! YOU DESERVE MORE SUBS!

So from looking at the video spoilers ahead The reason why nightmare freaked out and started crying and panicking is because the memory of him killing dream was being suppressed, a.k.a. he didn’t know, and once he got the memory back, he immediately felt insanely guilty and freaked out, and eventually went on their breakdown, and after realizing clown was the cause of this he got extremely pissed off

Best one so far

wow this is cool ive literally watched volume 2 so many times, same with volume 1

Bro, how is this so amazing...🥺 I nearly cried while watching this....- this was was kind of emotional despite the fact it had flash backs- of Dreams childhood- and seeing techoblade in this makes me sad.

OMG THIS IS SO EPIC!!! BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD EVERYBODY!!!

THE FACT THAT I THEORIZED almost EVERYTHING IN THIS VIDEO IS AMAZING yesterday I was thinking Ethan isn’t gonna focus as much on the lore and is gonna focus on a fight with some lore in between like the past episodes but now I’m thinking otherwise . but after the ending seen in the season 2 “movie” I thought of something Dream did something that made Nightmare want revenge against him which is what season 1 was, I thought of what if Dream shut Nightmare out so Dream had friends and Nightmare was lonely which is why Nightmare killed Sapnap and Bad BUT THEN his plan backfired and Techno showed up and he died. But I didn’t think of Dream and Nightmare being siblings? But I was also thinking what is the reason Clown is trying to bring Nightmare back and then I thought of what if Clown is trying to prove about how Nightmare was a victim. And yes I was correct! But OMG I’m shaking but also who was that a the end with Dreams mask? Edit: Ok I had a few minutes to think and now I’m theorizing that when young Nightmare started to beat up young Dream he felt regret bc they were brothers? and now if Dream gets revived Nightmare and Dream would be reunited and pick one: Best friends or Brothers. not even I’m sure I’m gonna go over the video multiple times later when I’m done with home school to see if I missed something. Edit2: Ok thanks to LilDaeDreamers comment I had a little secret in a corner to find at the end and it was a subtitle saying “Do you choose to walk in the light or dark?” And also the character at the end holding Dreams mask and hear me out Antfrost so the character at the end is wearing a glove WITH CLAWS Ant was Dreams friend, and at the beginning of sleepwalking we see Sapnap Bad and Ant, in the flashback we see Dream with Sapnap Bad and in the corner Ant. Antfrost is the only one from the friend group that is still alive and probably most likely has an urge to kill Nightmare. now all of my theories led to me making an entire story in my head after that and one of them was Techno having to protect Nightmare from everyone else because he was the only one who knew about Nightmare past and feels bad and now wants to help him. Now the lifesteal smp will probably want to hunt down Techno and Nightmare, Phil and Rek don’t know about Nightmares past so they might still think Nightmare is an enemy, and part of my theory still Ant just wants to kill Nightmare. Edit3: HOLD ON NEW THEORY! What if Clown gave Nightmare the spear, the one we see in season 1, what if Clown manipulated Nightmare in to evil, it could have started sometime before the time where the flashback where Nightmare started beating up Dream, so when Nightmare saw the flashback he realized he would have never reacted like that or do something like that, and realized what Clown did, so what I mean is the spear is what controlled Nightmare and contained all of his power and powers that he took from people he killed in season 1. When Nightmare saw the flashback he realized he killed his brother but Clown had manipulated him which is why Nightmare attacked Clown.

Amazing video to start off the new year and continuing this fantastic series. I never knew this story was deeper than what it looked like. Can’t wait for the next episode. ❤❤❤❤

This quality of the animation is some of the best I've ever seen

This was absolutely jaw dropping for me! I was never expected that nightmare and dream being Different from each other!

Clown forgot who he summoned….

great animation! questions are nightmare and dream brothers or once friends? I wonder who the wolf looking character at the end is? ultimate betrayal moment be like when nightmare just starts attacking clown pierce

Now we know the flashbacks and the backstory of Nightmare. We aren’t born as villains they’re made or created. I love the animation and thanks for continuing this series too. I feel so sad and bad for Nightmare though. Happy New Year Ethan! 🎊🎉🎆🎇

This was epic, the effects and lore were an amazing display. Well done

Nightmare has been waiting for revenge for a long time, with his resurrection thanks to ClownPierce we will see again how Technoblade begins to have more problems than it was before. I hope your battle is legendary.

Bro ethan man have been big fan of yours plz bring the last part as soon as possible

ETHAN! YOU NOT SLICK! YOU TOOK THE FIRST FIGHT BACK TO SLEEPWALKING VOL.1 EPISODE 1! THIS IS SO GOOD!

I- This is incredible, I don't know if this is true, but if you made the first place where Techno and Nightmare fought in the place where Dream and Nightmare first battled, that is an incredible callback dude. And the part when we get to see Dream and Nightmare's past was a rollercoaster of emotions for me. Ethan, you just made this series even better than ever. Keep up the good work! 💙

This is just phenomenal amazing work with the lighting and emotions love em

Reason it took so long for the series to come out is because of the animating of the hair

That was So Epic Loved it was so worth the wait