Conscious

Is to wake up to dream, or to dream to wake up.

(Film Festival Project III)
Stan, a college graduate, is working on his dissertation to prove, with deja vu dreaming and astral projection studies, that dreams have a very real connection to our physical realm.
Bruce, a graduate physicist in his first year of graduate school, keeps Stan in check after he orders new off-brand sleeping pills that induce longer lucid dreams.

Through the use of these new experimental pills, Stan makes astounding discoveries about the dream realm, however, he soon discovers that the pills have a catch. Overdoes can result in distortion of reality, yet the prescription requires the user to up the dosage by one pill each day…or was it every other day?