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dth="854"> </div> </div> </figure></iframe></div></div></figure>As soon as I realized while watching Doctor Sleep that this is the "What happened to Danny Torrance" movie, it brought me back to a memory.I can still remember it vividly as if it happened yesterday, but it has been 42 years since I watched The Shining in a movie house.I was a year younger than most of my classmates, and it was 1980, our school was very close to a mall. It was one of the new malls, it looked like a big department store, with movie houses and arcades.If I remember correctly, and this was in 1980, I was 11.And I knew then that at 11, I wasn't supposed to watch movies rated R, but somehow my classmates devised a plan. And because of peer pressure, I said yes.As long as we don't get caught,and besides, what could the staff at the cinemas do, more than kick us out?What was the plan? Someone from our group was tasked to buy tickets, and none of them definitely looked older than 12 or 13, but I do remember I had a classmate who was way taller than all of us.We managed to get the tickets, and I remember having a bad feeling about it. As a child, I tried to follow the rules all the time or do the right thing. But, like any sin, small as it is, I feel it is a ticket to hell.Sure, now I have a different concept of Hell, God, etc…but then, I was a very fearful kid.True to my feeling, in the middle of the movie, one of the staff, with his flashl

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ight turned to our group, and after checking our youthful faces escorted us out.By this time, I have seen the twins, the red blood all over the elevator. Needless to say, I was scared.Years later, when VHS was a thing, I was able to watch The Shining in full. It is one of those movies that if I watched it today, I would remember every single scene.Many even believe that The Shining is one of the scariest films they have seen in their lifetime.<h1 id="cc88">Final thought</h1>This is less of a review of Doctor Strange than what I felt and remembered after watching the movie.When I watched The Shining, I was introduced to Jack Torrance's character. He was a writer. It also leads me to read more of Stephen King, even if it would take me years to start writing.There have been forty-two years between The Shining and Doctor Sleep in my life. Some of the memories are forgotten, but like in Doctor Sleep, sometimes we need to go back to a place from the past, like our own Overlook Hotel, not to relive the pain but to have a new understanding of why things happened, to be more forgiving of oneself and make you recognize the good inside you.In the movie, Danny Torrance had to work on his childhood trauma. But, in the end, he faced his inner demons, battled his past, and helped Abra survive.After the movie, I have a good feeling that I'm slowly healing from my past, that the time left in my life is still time to create new memories because that is how we survive. We create new stories and live them.</article></body>

Watching Doctor Sleep Brought Me Back to a Memory Locked Inside My Head

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Doctor Sleep

A few days into the new year, and I am still in a "vacation mode" from writing. I am still resting after being down with the flu, and just happy that I could welcome the new year, not on a sickbed.

Last year, every time I would take a break from writing and instead watch a movie on Netflix, I would feel guilty. To be away from the laptop means I'm not writing, and it means not being serious enough about being a writer.

But that is all the voice in my head.

So tonight, I decided to watch Doctor Sleep on Netflix.

I must have forgotten that Doctor Sleep is a sequel to one of my all-time favorite movies, The Shining.

As soon as I realized while watching Doctor Sleep that this is the "What happened to Danny Torrance" movie, it brought me back to a memory.

I can still remember it vividly as if it happened yesterday, but it has been 42 years since I watched The Shining in a movie house.

I was a year younger than most of my classmates, and it was 1980, our school was very close to a mall. It was one of the new malls, it looked like a big department store, with movie houses and arcades.

If I remember correctly, and this was in 1980, I was 11.

And I knew then that at 11, I wasn't supposed to watch movies rated R, but somehow my classmates devised a plan. And because of peer pressure, I said yes.

As long as we don't get caught,

and besides, what could the staff at the cinemas do, more than kick us out?

What was the plan? Someone from our group was tasked to buy tickets, and none of them definitely looked older than 12 or 13, but I do remember I had a classmate who was way taller than all of us.

We managed to get the tickets, and I remember having a bad feeling about it. As a child, I tried to follow the rules all the time or do the right thing. But, like any sin, small as it is, I feel it is a ticket to hell.

Sure, now I have a different concept of Hell, God, etc…but then, I was a very fearful kid.

True to my feeling, in the middle of the movie, one of the staff, with his flashlight turned to our group, and after checking our youthful faces escorted us out.

By this time, I have seen the twins, the red blood all over the elevator. Needless to say, I was scared.

Years later, when VHS was a thing, I was able to watch The Shining in full. It is one of those movies that if I watched it today, I would remember every single scene.

Many even believe that The Shining is one of the scariest films they have seen in their lifetime.

Final thought

This is less of a review of Doctor Strange than what I felt and remembered after watching the movie.

When I watched The Shining, I was introduced to Jack Torrance's character. He was a writer. It also leads me to read more of Stephen King, even if it would take me years to start writing.

There have been forty-two years between The Shining and Doctor Sleep in my life. Some of the memories are forgotten, but like in Doctor Sleep, sometimes we need to go back to a place from the past, like our own Overlook Hotel, not to relive the pain but to have a new understanding of why things happened, to be more forgiving of oneself and make you recognize the good inside you.

In the movie, Danny Torrance had to work on his childhood trauma. But, in the end, he faced his inner demons, battled his past, and helped Abra survive.

After the movie, I have a good feeling that I'm slowly healing from my past, that the time left in my life is still time to create new memories because that is how we survive. We create new stories and live them.