When has Mulder ditched Scully?
This is a long section, so I have put it on a separate page. • Does Mulder have nightmares? Childhood dreams nightmares: In “Fire” he explains his fear of fire, and says that “for years” he used to have nightmares about being trapped in a burning building. It’s spoken in the past tense, as if he no longer has the nightmares, but he clearly is still scared of fire, so it’s possible to read it as him being defensive, not wanting to tell Scully he still has such nightmares. In “Aubrey” he tells Scully how he used to have nightmares and wake up in the middle of the night convinced he was the only person left alive in the world. Only the sound of his father crunching sunflower seeds told him it was only a dream. Adult dreams and nightmares He tells “Roland” about a dream he had “last night” in which he was swimming in a pool, trying to reach his father. Another man was there too, asking him questions he didn’t want to answer. He wanted to find his father, but the water stung his eyes. In th
