Orin's Phoenix morning — "In the dream, it’s understandably vital…"
In the dream, it’s understandably vital to Orin that he disengage his head from the phylacteryish bind of his mother’s disembodied head, and he cannot. Last night’s Subject’s note indicates that at some point last night Orin had clutched her head with both hands and tried to sort of stiff-arm her, though not in an ungentle or complaining way (the note, not the stiff-arm).
Context
The dream bleeds through into the shared bed: Orin acts the Moms-head struggle out on a real woman's head while asleep, and learns about it only from the morning's perfumed note. Dreamt material with physical witnesses — the serial's one point of outside corroboration.