"Before I Wake" is a 1953 American television play written by Sumner Locke Elliott. It was an episode of The Philco Television Playhouse.
Producer Fred Coe said it was about the need of an individual to be loved.
Variety wrote "if Before I Wake was meant for what it looked - just a good tearjerke - then Duff and Elliott did a good job. If, however, their aspirations were higher, and the show was primarily to convey the pain of a woman who thinks herself deceived by a dead man, the quality needed just wasn't there."
Maggie Bullen is crushed by the death of her lover.