"Worst nightmare, now that's hard to answer," Conklin said cryptically. Every time he thought things couldn't get worse, they did. First it had been David's family, then his conviction that David had turned, then Marie being kidnapped, and then that whole debacle with the Jackal's return, Mo being kidnapped by the Mafia, and everyone getting shot at least once. "I think I've already lived through most of them." And oddly enough, most of them were statistically less likely to occur here.

No, he wasn't immune to his nightmares, in reality or REM. Not by a long shot. There had been a period where he hadn't slept often because he feared what he might dream...and he still heard explosions in the night, and awoke in a cold sweat.