The Awakened had it backward. The old 'reality' of Vancouver had been unreal, a dream. Yes. I was with them that far. But the real reality wasn't Nod - Nod was just all the dreams and nightmares smushed together in a blender. Real reality would be whatever remained intact after Nod had hammered down upon our heads and ripped away the last shreds of the veil of the old world. And that would be? What would endure?