Rat Dreams

Over the course of three nights, people throughout the town of Devils Lake (including Suzy Tan, Jonah Mays, Nikita Sonin, Hope Conners and Paul Sanders) have dreams that include white rats. Suzy Tan overhears Jonah Mays telling a Speed Stop customer about such a dream and then remembers having had one herself. Doctor Nikita Sonin describes an unsettling dream she had about finding a white rat inside a surgery patient to Hope Conners, who states that she had a dream that there were white rats all over her living room. Paul Sanders wakes up from a nightmare and hurries to check all of the mousetraps in his house, implying that he may have also had a dream involving rats.

Connection to the Sun Box
Later, CIA Agent Claire Madison and CIA Lab Technician Alan Crenshaw are shown removing a white lab rat from the Sun Box, noting that it has died. When Alan dissects the rat, he discovers that it no longer has muscles, bones, or organs; everything under the skin has been replaced by a undifferentiated clear gelatin. After the rat has been removed from the box, rat dreams are no longer mentioned.