Hear me out: I love the idea of the Spiral/Distortion working as an entire realm for their avatars and having bedrooms and common areas instead of just being an endless corridor (as it presents to it's victims). The avatars (although uncommon) can be outside of this realm for long periods of time but they eventually need to come back to the spiral for at least a season (3 months) in order to survive (it's kinda like hibernation to them).... there's also a time out room where Michael is currently in for threatening Jon.
(it's my headcanon and I decided that Michael is alive and is roommates with Helen!! Okay??? This is how I cope!!! THIS IS HOW I COPE!!!!)
(also, pretty please let's not get too much into technicalities, the distortion is such a difficult to understand fear and this is just a silly headcanon I'm sharing....so....yeah)













