at that point everybody is gray anyway. Her name is Heather and she gets dreamed in and out of the story at various points, appearing and disappearing as needed.Instead of trying to cure him, Haber uses George's "effective dreaming" to create benevolent, far reaching changes in the world including population control, disarmament, and ecological regulations. The results always seem to include a bigger office and more power for Haber as well as improvements in society. After several more therapy sessions things begin to go wrong. At Haber's hypnotic suggestion to create world peace, George dreams that aliens have seized the moon and are threatening earth, thus uniting the earth in defense and causing world peace, just as suggested, but revealing that although Haber can make suggestions he cannot control the details of the dream supplied by George.In sheer frustration and helplessness, George runs away to his cabin in the woods. Heather begins to believe his story and seeks him out at his hideaway. Finding him in a state of exhaustion and desperation she says she will hypnotize him ( she learned it in college) and suggests that he dreams that the aliens are not on the moon and that Haber is really a good man who will cure George, not use him. This spontaneous plan backfires when George dreams that the aliens are no longer on the moon. You guessed it. George dreams that they came to the earth itself. Portland is nearly destroyed and civilians are killed by friendly fire as the military overreacts but it turns out that the aliens are peaceful beings without weapons, who are psychic and whose native element is the dream state itself. Even though they are large and totally encased in metallic shells like giant, nine foot tall, upright sea turtles, the aliens are few and (with a little help from George's dreams) are soon accepted as harmless. They generally become small time merchants who set up little shops in out of the way places and can be...
