Synopsis

A sleeping couple becomes trapped in a shared nightmare of suburban menace and absurd violence. Dave Grohl's character dreams that two leather-clad intruders are attacking their home, while his partner dreams of him as a larger-than-life hero coming to her rescue. The dream worlds overlap, shift, and collapse through a series of surreal transformations, including enormous hands, giant telephone props, and impossible changes of scale. After the couple defeats the intruders, the video returns to the bedroom before revealing the Foo Fighters performing the song.

Factoids & Trivia

• The video was Taylor Hawkins' first appearance with Foo Fighters. He appears in the opening photograph and plays the female companion, but he does not perform the recorded drum part. Dave Grohl played drums on the studio version.

• The shared-dream concept became an important creative precursor to later work involving dream logic and handmade fantasy. The dream sequences were built around practical effects, back projection, forced perspective, and deliberately artificial-looking sets rather than relying heavily on digital effects.

• The horror-comedy imagery draws on classic genre films, particularly the kind of grotesque, low-budget supernatural imagery associated with The Evil Dead and other late-night horror movies.

• Grohl initially resisted the idea of appearing in bed with a female co-star, a hesitation that nearly prevented the video from being made in its eventual form.

• The clip's intentionally grainy, VHS-like look helps blur the boundary between waking life and fantasy. Near the end, color gradually enters the previously monochrome performance setting as the band's real-world presence takes over.

• The video was nominated for Best Rock Video at the 1998 MTV Video Music Awards. Its combination of slapstick, horror, and inventive visual transitions has since made it one of the band's most recognized and frequently celebrated videos.