I get back to this thread because there's something I was thinking about the last couple of days concerning You Can Sleep While I Dream.

Obie's box set tracklist lists it as a Crush demo and we do as well.
But to me it never suited that era. The sound of the song is just too different.
I'd rather put it somewhere between 1993 - 1995 and after strumming around a bit on my acoustic guitar I finally got some indication for my theory.

When writing for the albums Jon (and Richie) always had the habit to use either the exact same or slightly changed chord progressions more than once.
Examples (off the top of my head, there's probably way more):

In these Arms chorus - E B C#m A
The Radio Saved My Life Tonight verse - E B C#m A

Just Older (almost the whole song)- G Bm A
Hush (bridge) - Bm A G

Have A Nice Day chorus - Bm G D A
Bells Of Freedom verse - Bm G D A

Here's my point:
You Can Sleep While I Dream - bridge C#m A E G#m A F#m B / chorus E A F#m A E
Someday I'll Be Saturday Night - bridge C#m A E G#m A F#m / chorus E A E B A B E C#m B A E A
The Fire Inside - verse E5 A5 and B5 A5 at the end / chorus E A C#m A E B
For non-musicians this might look wild but what I'm saying is that you can actually play all three songs with the same chords.
So I think they were written all at the same period of time. With Saturday Night and Fire Inside we know for sure and I think You Can Sleep While I Dream is another one of that batch.

Another indication: the band also used to use the same kind of vocal fillers:
New Jersey - nananana --> Born To Be My Baby, Judgement Day, Growing Up The Hard Way, Love Hurts

Crossroad/These Days - heyhey --> Someday I'll Be Saturday Night, Prostitute, Something To Believe In

Destination Anywhere - shalala --> Queen Of New Orleans, Midnight In Chelsea, Little City

Lost Highway - again heyhey --> Lost Highway, We Got It Going On, I Love This Town

So the heyheys in You Can Sleep While I Dream match the ones of the These Days era much better.

And my final point why I right from the beginning put that song rather into the 93-95 era than 1999: Musically it fits songs like The End, When She Comes or Open All Night much better than the Crush or Sex Sells songs.
The These Days/Open All Night outtakes all got a specific sound that never appeared in Bon Jovi land before or after. The End or When She Comes or even Open All Night a such weird Bon Jovi songs soundwise - and so is You Can Sleep While I Dream.

What are your thoughts on that one?