- Mum, how did dreamworld come to be?
- A long time a go, in a country far far away, a dreamer ...
- Is this the real story or just make-belief, Mum?
- ... A dreamer realized that make-belief can be as real as we want it to be in dreams.
- Was it a boy or a girl dreamer? A grown up or just a kid?
- Oh, definitely, a kid, my dear, however, there was nothing "just" about this little boy.
- Can't you make it a girl?
- I thought you wanted the real story?
- I want it to be a girl! Can you just change this one detail?
- Alright, but unlike you, this little girl often dreamed of being a boy.
- Why?
- Because we often dream of what we cannot have, of who we cannot be. The little girl had an evil stepmother.
- Of course, they always do in stories. Did she also have a fairy godmother?
- No, fairies are not real, dear, and this is a real story. However, she did have a crazy scientist uncle, though his involvement in the project is still classified. Anyway, what we do know is that the little one escaped into dreams and became a very powerful lucid dreamer.
- Did they have lucid dreams before dreamworld?
- Of course! And they even had some primitive form of virtual reality already. In fact, she realized that if only one glued dreams and virtual reality together, and intertwined them so tight that one could not tell where one left off and the other began, ...
- Did she use a glue stick to glue them together?
- Haha, no, of course not, my silly girl! Quantum physics.
- What's that?
- Ask your dad.
- Is it like sex? Because dad said to ask you to explain, what that is.
- Just in the case of the origin of dreamworld, quantum physics was much like sex: they both entail the act of creation, mostly conducted in bed, coupling two into one, involving a child somewhere. Any more questions?
