The boundary between reality and imagination is a permeable membrane. What begins quite ordinarily subtly drifts into imaginary worlds. Just as a train traveler complains that his mind is bustling like in the Cologne train station, the scene glides into the station hall and back into a dreamlike encounter on the train. A passing fruit fly becomes the spaceship of intergalactic ambassadors who aim to bring world peace. How and why the mission fails is told in this book. A man is speaking loudly on the bus, which causes the other passengers to argue. "Silence!" thunders the bus driver, threatening to hold her breath until she turns blue in the face. The texts gathered here allow readers to look beneath the surface of the ordinary, and before their eyes, the familiar begins to twist and turn.