In this chapter, we learn that the University of California, Berkeley, has a very high rate of people having nightmares. The narrator tells us that he heard that there are a lot of people who have nightmares during the school year, and that the chances of having a nightmare during the first year of college are about three times higher than in high school. He tells the narrator to watch out for a "dream demon" , which is a type of demon that doesn't follow any rules. He also tells him that the "magic" of the dream demon isn't like that of a sorcerer or a monk. The two men meet up, and the narrator explains that he's a new student at the university. He's not expecting the student to show up, but he does, and he shows the narrator a dream demon that looks very different from a normal demon. He asks the student why he was so violent when he drugged him. The student says that he was trying to help him out of kindness, but that he didn't think of the consequences. He says that the demon must be a "premium meal" for him to act like the way he did. He wants to know why the student was so cruel to him when he was