[A dream, huh? Doc doesn't usually bother thinking over dreams, they're fluff pieces, but whether he's in one...well, it's surreal enough. He has to be. But this figment of his dream telling him such outright is unusual.]

That would be one logical explanation, yes, though that would make one of us a product of the other's imagination, wouldn't it?

[Or would it? He gives the boy a considering look.]