Dan's not expecting Dean to have a sudden happy memory between all the awful ones, and he wonders if it's contagious, if his memory of defusing mines with his father set off a similar set of comforting thoughts in Dean. But for as clearly warm and pleasant as those memories of Dean's are, they don't seem to have brought him any peace.

The unconscious woman is bleeding pretty badly, so Dan tries to move the horse quickly, navigating through the fog in a vague northwards direction. The further they get from the center of the action, the less clear the memories are, the less overwhelming.

"Tell me how you got here," Dan says, trying to keep Dean talking. Dean can't be alert and ready to spring into action if he's zoning out.