18. He walked to the front of the store and locked the door. When he turned around, she was on the floor and the painter was trying to help her to a chair. He ran back and asked the painter what had happened. The painter said that she had just fainted.
She was coming to again. He tried to stand back and give her room to breathe but he also wanted to see if she was all right.
"It’s real," she said.
Despite having proved the veracity of his experience, the painter still didn’t seem completely at ease. The store owner thought that most likely each of them suspected the other would give them away to the authorities. He felt he had the most to lose. He had a business that could be confiscated. What did they have? Also he had been the one to introduce them to the comic book which was at the root of the whole problem.
He made a suggestion, one that would hopefully put them all on an equal playing field.
"What if the two of you entered at the same time? Do you think it’s possible?"
No one had any clue as to why anything was possible but it was worth a try. And it seemed to put them both at ease. They would meet at the comic book store and by looking at the comic, put themselves into a trance. By making themselves simultaneously vulnerable they would strengthen the bond between them. And he would watch over and protect them.
They made a list of the things they knew about the dream:
a.) It takes the dreamer to this place, i.e.: it transports the dreamer through time rather than space.
b.) However, materialization in the dream is not always at the same place as the waking body.
c.) The space covered by the waking body does not necessarily correspond to that of the dreaming body although there do seem to be some correlations.
d.) It always seems to transport the dreamer to the same period of time, i.e.: roughly one-hundred years prior.
e.) Looking at the upside-down comic produces a trance inducing the dream.
f.) For the painter, painting the wall in a particular way sometimes brought him to the dream, but unpredictably.
g.) The painter has also entered the dream through natural sleep. But the means of doing so are unknown and unreliable.
h.) It is possible that moving in the dream causes the waking body to move but not always.
i.) When the painter entered the dream during sleep, he was not bodily in the dream which may have been why his body remained in the same space in the waking realm.
j.) The people of the dream cannot see the dreamer.
k.) When the dreamer aligns with a person of the dream, that person’s thought are read/thought by the dreamer.
l.) The duration of the dream does not necessarily correspond to that of the waking world.
These items were not written down.
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She was coming to again. He tried to stand back and give her room to breathe but he also wanted to see if she was all right.
"It’s real," she said.
Despite having proved the veracity of his experience, the painter still didn’t seem completely at ease. The store owner thought that most likely each of them suspected the other would give them away to the authorities. He felt he had the most to lose. He had a business that could be confiscated. What did they have? Also he had been the one to introduce them to the comic book which was at the root of the whole problem.
He made a suggestion, one that would hopefully put them all on an equal playing field.
"What if the two of you entered at the same time? Do you think it’s possible?"
No one had any clue as to why anything was possible but it was worth a try. And it seemed to put them both at ease. They would meet at the comic book store and by looking at the comic, put themselves into a trance. By making themselves simultaneously vulnerable they would strengthen the bond between them. And he would watch over and protect them.
They made a list of the things they knew about the dream:
a.) It takes the dreamer to this place, i.e.: it transports the dreamer through time rather than space.
b.) However, materialization in the dream is not always at the same place as the waking body.
c.) The space covered by the waking body does not necessarily correspond to that of the dreaming body although there do seem to be some correlations.
d.) It always seems to transport the dreamer to the same period of time, i.e.: roughly one-hundred years prior.
e.) Looking at the upside-down comic produces a trance inducing the dream.
f.) For the painter, painting the wall in a particular way sometimes brought him to the dream, but unpredictably.
g.) The painter has also entered the dream through natural sleep. But the means of doing so are unknown and unreliable.
h.) It is possible that moving in the dream causes the waking body to move but not always.
i.) When the painter entered the dream during sleep, he was not bodily in the dream which may have been why his body remained in the same space in the waking realm.
j.) The people of the dream cannot see the dreamer.
k.) When the dreamer aligns with a person of the dream, that person’s thought are read/thought by the dreamer.
l.) The duration of the dream does not necessarily correspond to that of the waking world.
These items were not written down.
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