While answering the beautiful girl’s question, my dreaming mind got ahold of my waking mouth so that, in phases, as I answered, I awoke; my dreaming speech was transforming to that of waking through all the phases of this process — until I was completely awake and answering clearly a person who was not present in the waking world. The more I answered with my waking mouth, the less she existed… until the answer was complete… and she was missing…