Don't wake me up

The video starts off in a long distance shot of an abstract desert, not much can really be seen apart from the shadow of the artist in the background as the editing then fades to show him standing there in a white patterned T-shirt and jeans with sunglasses and a headband. The shot portrays how lost the artist is, the white colors that he is wearing emphasizes the youth of Chris as well as his humility and peace despite the fact he is lost in this desert.

The video then cuts to Chris Brown lying in a grey room asleep on a bed, the camera angle follows the position where he is lying to when he is sitting up, we can see a girl in the background enter one of the 3 doors behind Chris in which he eventually gets up to follow her.

Throughout when this is happening the performance side of the video is constantly cut too which is Chris brown in the desert which was the establishing shot of the video, editing techniques such as fades are used to give this mysterious abstract effect.

Chris appears in a maze of some sort while he is chasing the girl, there are constant camera cuts to add an effect to this, the camera then zooms out to show a birds eye view of the huge maze which they are within. they leave the dream world through a wall and Chris then reappears within the bed he started as he gets up again to follow the girl through the second door this time.

In this scene he is seen to be walking along clouds with city buildings showing through the top of them, this clearly adds to the dream theme that the video has going on which clearly relates to the lyrics in the song, The girl then disappears as a huge wave sweeps over Chris which makes him reappear in a car which is instantly hit by another.

The same thing then happens again as Chris wakes up in the bed, another performance element is added in here as we see a closeup of Chris in the gray room with wires attached to his head which gives him a holographic futuristic look.

The scene then cuts to him being in the car again but this time moving it out of the way of the other car which we then find out is the girl he has been chasing.

all the scenes then start cutting between each other quickly as the two cars drive of towards the edge of a cliff which then fades to a birds view shot of  Chris Brown and the girl lying in the same bed wired up as they turn to look at each other.