Scary stuff, Chuck, and very well written (despite your denials). Not speaking for anyone else, I've had similar experiences of the lines between dreams and reality becoming weirdly blurred. I guess we are having a run of strange dreams. I had one last night that I didn't seem to be in. I don't know how this works but the dream existed and I didn't. And the dream seemed to go on and on in a real time way. I dreamt that there were two women who were trying to get an elevator to open because they were trying to get away from somebody (or so it seemed at the beginning of the dream). They were in a wood paneled room. It turned out, as they searched for a way to get out, that they had been experimented on by a scientist (apparently the person pursuing them) who had blended three people into one. If you walked in a certain way, the three personalities would "walk out" from each other and temporarily separate. The scientist, who had also experimented on himself, had also altered their body chemistry so they couldn't tolerate regular atmosphere or food, which is why they were driven to find the elevator, which would take them into an environment in which they could exist. So they weren't trying to escape after all but trying to save themselves. I woke with a feeling of being dislocated. They seemed so real and, in the early morning hour, I did not.