Nightmares
Original air date: May 12, 1997
When the gang's worst nightmares start coming true, Buffy soon suspects that it's caused by a little boy who is in a coma.
Some of the character's nightmares taht come true are: Xander's fear of clowns comes to a reality when he is chased by one, Willow is faced to perform on stage infront of eveyone she's ever met and doesn;'t know her lines, Giles suddenly can't read, Cordelia turns into a nerd and is dragged into a chess club, and worst of all Buffy, first her dad tells her she's the reason for her parent's divorce and then she is buried alive by the Master and awakens as a vampire herself.
Character Study: Buffy
When Buffy's father tells her her that she is the reason that he and her mother divorced, because she wasn't the daughter he wanted, you see the pain in her face, even though later she will realize none of it was true that he said, she will still feel asthough it was her faught in later episodes.