The story writes itself; a story is a collective enterprise, a social production. The story depends upon groups; evolution depends upon species. If the many are not divided into groups, there is no time machine. Dreaming tends toward manyness, toward the dissolution of all boundaries between the people, and between the people and the world.

The dream people are not members of any group; everyone is an orphan and gender is inderminate. The dream is delirium.

"Contrary to what is taken for granted in the lunatic state called normalcy or common sense, the distinction between self and external world is not an immutable fact, but an artificial construction. It is a boundary line; like all boundaries not natural but conventional; like all boundaries, based on love and hate." Love's Body. 142.

The answer to the question," How is a time machine constructed?", is the answer to the question, "How is a group constructed?" According to the evidence of our own experience, there is within the dream body, an implicit desire to awaken, and this desire to awaken from delirium is the source of the story.