Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24177652-20150127071507/@comment-24891101-20150127080501

Yes. It's a vivid dream. Of course it would be. Yang's searched for most of her life for her biological mother, using any and all resources at her disposal, with little more to go on than old photographs. She's not got a lot to show for it. And then, unlooked-for, a mysterious figure eerily similar to her mother appears out of nowhere to save her life, but does nothing else, mysteriously vanishing just as a dazed Yang gets a glimpse of her. Combined with the stress of the entire day, she's going to crash, hard.

In contrast, subconsciously, she's linked her mysterious savior with her mother. What happened in the stinger is very much a wish-fulfillment. Her mother coming back, when she's older, old enough to understand intelletually why she left in the first place, and offering both a full explanation and a chance to catch up, as it were. This is what Yang's mind conjures up. Using the old pictures, and Yang's own appearance, her mind makes the best guess it can as to her current face.

There's a decent amount of circumstantial that it's a dream. She's got no reason to be wandering Beacon's campus in the middle of the night, after getting little sleep the night before and being run ragged all the day long. The music is eerie, unreal, and (Dare I say it? Of course!) dreamlike. There's an odd distortion over the entire scene, which we've never seen elsewhere.