#ivorygate

[nightnut]

Dr Owens and distant mind manipulations

he doesn’t check on Will, he checks the results of the experiments they’re doing on him

he doesn’t assume, he promises

1+5+1+1 =8, a number of an illusion being cooked

the end of 2x02 after Will was in the lab:

later the phone rings, no one picks up

but what if it was important? and the call was from the Lab to warn them?

that something in the Lab went wrong?

leading to another ‘episode’ in the distance when Will is at home bc they injected something in his arm? (the hand hints to injecting, the nurse doesn’t hold the syringe as if she was taking his blood for analysis)

so that after Will had a cozy evening with his family we end up in the surreal distant visual manipulation translated into his mind?

it probably wasn’t done on purpose this time bc if the Lab wanted to manipulate Will’s mind in distance before, they could’ve done it a million times (could his episodes be caused by it?); however, the scientist is shocked that the machine goes crazy, and that is shown right after the call to the Byers, and right before Will’s vision when he’s alone again and in the UD.

we have also the close up on the clock face (is it 01:05? 1x05?), and the word ‘united’ is important for some reason. Will’s realities were united (Hawkins and the UD)? Or what was?

[nightnut]

so, they even gave us the context: it was 6:10PM

when Jonathan brought movies to Will

they started watching it around 6:20-30PM, it’s runtime is 1:30, it should’ve been over by ≈9PM

Joyce gets scared of the call, it switches to the lab

the next thing we know Will has vision at 01:05

what is the reason for a time-skip and what happened in the last 4-5 hours?

[nightnut]

the ivory and mockingbird hunters

this soap is seen during this scene

keys. I have no idea where it can lead, but maybe someone does; a while ago we discussed the fact that the db called 5x08 ‘coda’ (I reposted it but can’t find it now) which is not the absolute end in music afaiu; as you can see I’m not an expert, but if someone is!

the ivory thing kinda covers the topic of chasing someone vulnerable, which matches also the fact that Nancy’s reading To Kill a Mockingbird:

and this ‘sin’ quote also lwk leads me back to the religious aspect of the show, we still have no gate for it, but we should

[randomnessreloaded]

🌀 What if your dreams are not random… but gateways?

There’s a place your mind visits when you sleep. A place that feels real… but isn’t always truth.

It’s called the Ivory Gate.

Ancient thinkers believed dreams pass through two gates—one of truth, one of illusion. And the Ivory Gate? That’s where deception lives. Beautiful, convincing, almost too real.

Inspired by the ideas of Aleister Crowley, this concept takes on a darker tone—suggesting that not everything you see in your mind is meant to guide you. Some of it might be misleading you.

✨ A dream that feels important ✨ A vision that lingers ✨ A feeling you can’t explain

But what if it’s not truth… just a perfect illusion?

Randomness Reloaded dives into this mystery—where psychology, symbolism, and the unknown collide.

👁️ So here’s the question: If you stood before the Ivory Gate… would you enter?

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