Nightmares is an action - horror new media web series starring and executive produced by Ciera Foster ( Foster Features Inc) . The series follows the protagonist ' Aella Sky' played by Ciera Foster, a young woman suffering with severe sleep deprivation and psychosis due to chronically enduring brutally violent dreams with every slumber. When Aella assumes a state of complete sleep the world as she knows it no longer exists, as Aella is thrust into an alternate reality of seemingly never ending nightmares. With each nightmare growing increasingly more dangerous than the last, Aella's very survival depends on her ability to fight her way out of the nightmares, to stay awake and to stay alive!