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“The first time he entered deep sleep,” Salsbury said, “he stayed there for eight minutes. This time it lasted only six minutes. That’s the start of an interesting pattern.”
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“He was only in deep sleep three minutes that time,” Klinger said. “The cycle is accelerating, at least on the down side.”
Dawson said, “But why? Ernst apparently understands, but I’m not sure I do.”
“Something’s happening in his subconscious mind during deep sleep,” Salsbury said. “Something so unsettling that it causes him to leap up into stage one sleep and dream. That subconscious experience, whatever it may be, is getting ever more intense-or, if it isn’t getting mere intense, then his ability to withstand it is dwindling. Perhaps both. On each occasion, he’s able to tolerate it for a shorter period of time than he did before.”
“You mean he’s in pain in stage four?” Dawson asked.
“Pain is a condition of the flesh,” Salsbury said. “It’s not the right word for this situation.”
“What is the right word.”
“Anxiety, perhaps. Or fear.”
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“One minute that time,” Klinger said.
“By now he’s extremely agitated,” Salsbury said, speaking of the dead man as if he were still alive. “The pattern becomes increasingly unusual and erratic. At two twenty he gets back to the third level. Look what happens to him after that:”
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Klinger was as fascinated by the print-out of Brian Kingman’s disintegration as he possibly could have been by the sight of the real event. “He didn’t even reach the fourth level that time before he popped up to stage one again.”
“He’s having an acute subconscious anxiety attack,” Salsbury said.
Dawson said, “Is there such a thing?”
“There is now. His mind is wildly turbulent at this point- yet in such a way that it doesn’t wake him up altogether. And it gets worse.”
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“He was frightened awake at two thirty-seven, wasn’t he?” Dawson asked.
Salsbury said, “That’s right. Not wide awake. But beyond the first level of sleep, into alpha wave territory. You’re learning to read it now.”
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