Gately's M.D.-temptation dream (p. 883)
Gately’s memories of ‘Cheers!’ ’s Nom now are clearer and vivider than any memory of the wraith-dream or the whirling wraith who said death was just everything outside you getting really slow.
Context
The scene opens by retro-labeling the wraith interface of 162 as "the wraith-dream," now fading below the vividness of ordinary memory. The label matters for the theme: the text itself files the wraith visit under dreaming even while leaving its reality open — and this scene is about to run the same trick again with the M.D.