Ern looked up from his coffee at Adrian, noticing that his attention was most certainly caught. "Well, it's just a theory from an observation of a collection of these experiences. But they appear to be memories of victims of torture. For example, there were even matching memories from the same event--just different perspectives. And they all included a woman--who I believe was the torturer--with red hair and blue eyes. Who some people have suspected is Pandora Zurlo."
"It would explain why these 'dreams' are so vivid, and why they can't seem to be nullified by draught of dreamless sleep," he added with an uncomfortable certaintly, knowing that from firsthand experience.