Random Easter Egg In 'Doctor Sleep' (9 items)

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  (#9) Danny Lloyd Appears At The Baseball Game

  Before Bradley Trevor is abducted by the True Knot, we see him at a baseball game and how he uses his shine to anticipate pitches. One spectator comments that it's like he knows what the pitcher is going to throw before it happens. This is Danny Lloyd who played Danny Torrance in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining.
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  (#3) Dan Is Dressed Like Jack

  It's hard to consider anything that happens in the last 45 minutes of Doctor Sleep to be Easter Eggs when Dan is going down memory lane in the Overlook, but this one might have snuck by some folks. When Dan has a conversation with his father at the bar, he happens to be dressed nearly identically to the way Jack was when he sat at the same bar and had a chat with the ghostly Lloyd in The Shining.
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  (#1) Dick Hallorann Says "Ka Is A Wheel"

  During Dan's last conversation with Dick Hallorann he's convinced by his former Shine mentor that he needs to pass along what he knows to Abra. "Everything comes back around," Hallorann tells Dan, "Ka is a Wheel." The idea of life being cyclical is present in quite a few Stephen King tales but the phrase "Ka is a Wheel" is ripped straight from The Dark Tower series. Ka is essentially Mid-World speak for destiny or fate, and Roland can be heard muttering "Ka is a Wheel" to his gunslingers throughout the eight book series. 
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  (#4) Rose Gets De-Gloved

  When Rose first finds Abra, she sneaks into her mind to try to learn more about her. Unfortunately for her, Abra has a massive amount of Shine and she catches the vampire in the act. The girl traps Rose's hand in a metal drawer and in freeing herself she nearly tears all the flesh off her hand. A similar hand "de-gloving" takes place in Gerald's Game when Jessie manages to get out of her handcuffs by shedding the skin from her hand. Both the Doctor Sleep and Gerald's Game film adaptations were directed by Mike Flanagan.
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  (#7) Lamerk Industries Owns The Construction Site

  After the True Knot kidnap Bradley Trevor, they take him to a construction site to perform the ritual of taking the boy's steam. When Dan and Billy arrive later to find the boy's body buried there we see that the construction site is owned by Lamerk Industries. Lamerk is another megacorporation in alliance with the Sombra Corporation, North Central Positronics and the Crimson King fighting against Roland, his ka-tet of gunslingers, and the Tet Corporation for control of the Dark Tower.
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  (#5) Dan Travels On A Tet Transit Bus

  After a few rough nights sleeping on the streets, Dan decides to head north. He gets on a bus and hops off in New Hampshire. When he leaves the vehicle you can see writing on its side denoting it's part of Tet Transit. This is a subtle reference to the Tet Corporation from The Dark Tower series. In the books, Roland Deschain and his fellow gunslingers travel to Earth to help a group of people set up a company to protect that world's version of the Dark Tower from the Crimson King and his own evil entity the Sombra Corporation.

  In order to become as much a financial powerhouse as Sombra, Roland gives his Earthly allies investment advice from the future (i.e. invest in Microsoft) and tells them to get into a number of ventures. Apparently one of them was bus travel.

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