"No, no way." He suppresses a shudder. If they'd all spent a year trapped in a featureless void (giant centipedes optional) they'd all have woken up stark (haha) raving mad.

"It wasn't so bad." It was quite nice, actually, at times. For reasons that involve Gene and will remain locked in the strictly confidential Never-Ever-Tell-Howard-Ever file until the end of time.

"It was a lot like a regular dream, except we could move in and out of each other's dreams. Not everybody realized they were dreaming at first, but once we snapped out of it, we could manipulate what we were dreaming. The weirdest part was that it didn't feel like a whole year. That was a little shocking to wake up to. I had a beard." An awful beard. "And long hair!"

It was so traumatic, Howard. He looked like a sleazy, unwashed drug dealer. Long hair is not a good look for him.