The compound we'll be using to share the dream creates a very clear connection between dreamers whilst actually accelerating brain function.
In other words, it gives us more time on each level.
Brain function in the dream will be about 20 times normal. When you enter a dream within that dream, the effect is compounded. It's three dreams, that's 10 hours times 20--
It's a week the first level down, Six months the second level down, The third level--
That's 10 years. Who'd would want to be stuck in a dream for ten years?
Depends on the dream.
So, once we've made the plant, how do we get out? I'm hoping you have something more elegant in mind than shooting me in the head?
A kick.
What's a kick?
This, Ariadne, would be a kick. [kicks Arthur's chair; Arthur flails but manages to right himself]
It's that feeling of falling you get that jolts you awake. It snaps you out of the dream.
Are we going to feel a kick with this kind of sedation?
Ahh, that's the clever part. I customize the sedative to leave inner ear function unimpaired. That way, however deep the sleep, the sleeper still feels falling, or tipping.
The trick is to synchronize a kick that can penetrate all three levels.
We could use the musical countdown to synchronize the different kicks.
