It’s time to travel back in time once again, even further this time around, to the year 1922.

At the Egyptian National Library in Cairo, we see a young Illusionist who inspired by ‘The Great Book of Music’ written by Al-Farabi (872-950) is fascinated with the power of music. Even more so, he’s interested in using music in therapy or as a method of spiritual healing. He writes a melody and builds a music box, hoping to create something that would ease his pain. His creation was ‘The Lullaby’ and upon listening to his finished work for the first time, he experiences his first trip into his dream world, much like The Dreamer would do in the future. In his dream world, he reunites with his son who died at the age of 4. In seeing his son once again, his is overwhelmed with joy as he holds his son in his arms. Satisfied with the result of The Lullaby, The Illusionist gets back into the real world with a new purpose. In realizing what he’s been able to create, he becomes eager to help other people to heal with his invention.

One day, while rushing through the busy streets of Cairo, The Illusionist is involved in a mix up accident where he bumps into two strangers. He accidentally drops the music box that turned up in the hands of two scientists named William and Thomas. They call for the man who’s box they picked up, but The Illusionist had already disappeared among the busy crowd.

Once in their lab, they discover the powers of The Lullaby and do quite a few experiments together. William travels into the dream world, while Thomas observes the experience from the outside. Thomas founds it fascinating how the person in trance would move and speak in the real word, the same way he’d do in the dream world. However, through the many experiments they do, William and Thomas encounter some worrying results. They discover the difficulty of snapping out of the dream if you happen to be desperate after something that you’d encounter in it. William gets stuck in the dream and only manages to get out of it due to Thomas outside who is aware of what’s going on. Thomas eventually manages to make William snap out and wake up after having stopped breathing for a longer time. They both decide that The Lullaby is too dangerous to keep experimenting with. So they agree to get rid of it.

However, leaving the music box unguarded at one point allowed The Illusionist, who had found them, to retrieve his invention. He had heard their plan to break it, yet not of the dangers that had occurred. He walks away, still feeling that his destiny is to keep helping people out with their problems. Being unaware of the effects the dream world can have, The Illusionist spends his years traveling the world and helping people to find peace by giving them a trip to the dream world before disappearing from the lives in search of the next person.

​When it comes to the people that The Illusionist had tried to help prior to The Dreamer, The Illusionist always played them the melody and left as soon as they fell into the dream world. For him, getting them there was his only duty. It was satisfaction enough for him to have had “helped them get there”, so he didn’t need to wait for them to wake up and receive gratitude. This is why he’s remained unaware of the effects The Lullaby can have throughout all these years. The Illusionist never stayed in the dream world forgetting about reality.

Finally in 1989, as we’ve already heard in ‘Invitation’. The Illusionist gives the music box to The Dreamer, making The Dreamer became the last person he tries to help. Hoping that maybe, The Dreamer would later pass The Lullaby on to people in need the same way he did.