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ebaeschnbliah:

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With all the 1984 / nurse posts today: there is a nurse passing through Sherlock’s room in the hospital scene in TAB.

Even if you accept the other plane scenes in TAB to be real, this scene can’t be because Sherlock suddenly isn’t on the plane anymore (where we see him afterwards as well). And it transitions into the totally impossible graveyard scene where Sherlock not only digs up a body but is also attacked by a zombie skeleton.

In the scene the nurse just walks by while John is doing the examination.

If this is just a drug induced dream of Sherlock, why would he add a nurse? He doesn’t need her for the Ricoletti case. She’s not there for medical purposes either. To add some colour to the scene, like the police officers at the graveyard?

Or is this scene something else? Is this somehow reality bleeding into his Victorian dream?

Remember where we left them…

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Good question @isitandwonder . What is real and what is not?  Maybe the picture with a blury Mycroft and a nurse in the background is the only scene which is real. Or maybe TAB is real and Sherlock imagines a time in the future.  Another thought:  if Sherlock is figuring out something - a puzzle, a mystery -  in his head - would it be unreal just because it is in his head?  For example … the hiker and boomerang deduction. Sherlock played out the whole thing in his head. Is it unreal because we see it happening in his head?  It happend for real too.  There’s a dead body to prove it and a real boomerang floating down the stream. 

If Sherlock deduces in his head that he is in love with John, if he finds a way to overcome his doubts and his fear of emotions - in his head. If he finds the courage to fight and defeat the demons of his past in his head ….. would that make the whole thing unreal … just because it’s in his head?  Would it be of less value … just because it’s in his head?  Before he comes out and confronts John and everyone else …. Before he solves the case.

We have seen Sherlock doing this from the very start of this story: collecting evidence, playing with puzzle pieces in his head until they fall into the right place, coming forth with the solution seemingly out of nowhere. The people around him seeing only ever the start and the end of his ‘work’. Never the string of thoughts that lies inbetween ….

Wow, thanks for that comment @ebaeschnbliah! And you know what, call me daft but I just now fully realised that Irene never ‘for real’ figured out what happened to the hiker. All her being that clever is just in Sherlock’s head while he lies drugged on her bedroom floor (or maybe already in his bed in 221b). But reality and dream blur into one another so that in retrospect it’s hard to distinguish…

Is the conversation Sherlock has with Irene in the sitting room, prior to the smoke alarm going off, even happening, or is it only in his head as well?

This is a fascinating convo, @isitandwonder and @ebaeschnbliah. I think merely bringing up the idea-

Another thought:  if Sherlock is figuring out something - a puzzle, a mystery - in his head - would it be unreal just because it is in his head?  

-goes a long way in proving that EMP theory isn’t so far-fetched, right? Just because it’s happening inside Sherlock’s mind doesn’t negate the reality of what he is figuring out, imo.

The hiker deduction all played out in Sherlock’s head. And we never questioned the ‘reality’ of what he figured out there. And, I think another key to the ‘difference’ in how submersed and real his mind palace can appear is- all together now- DRUGS. 

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@tjlcisthenewsexy You had some ideas on the drugs thing, hadn’t you?