Gary Brandt delivers his most ambitious and thrilling chapter yet in this episode from The Dimension Of Mind Dot Com when Christmas vacation becomes a top-secret military expedition to the heart of psychic phenomena in the South Pacific.
Starting with a surprise Learjet trip to San Diego, the girls join an eclectic team of adult sensitives—including electrician John Jacobson, engineer Henry Schmidt, and nurse Rebekah García—for a classified reconnaissance mission aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln.
Brandt masterfully balances teenage awkwardness with high-stakes espionage as Ella discovers her psychic 'family' can't keep their telepathic thoughts private around other empaths, leading to mortifying moments when Patricia and Eileen broadcast their crushes on John's muscular arms to the entire sensitive team.
The aircraft carrier scenes showcase Brandt's research skills, from the authentic military atmosphere to the visceral description of catapult launches that leave Roxana shrieking in terror before dissolving into nervous laughter, while Commander Beaker's warnings about international tensions add real-world political complexity to their supernatural mission.
But the real genius emerges when their reconnaissance flight encounters a living UFO that Patricia joyfully recognizes as 'Fluffy'—a furry alien creature she played with as a child when it was 'puppy-sized' before its fur fell off and it became a mature transport vessel.
The subsequent hotel briefing becomes a masterclass in dimensional physics as the team's psychic impressions reveal the tragic truth: this peaceful atoll was once a massive extraterrestrial manufacturing facility existing in parallel time phases, accidentally destroyed when 1940s hydrogen bomb tests sent destructive energy cascading through interdimensional 'vortex filaments' to multiple worlds across space and time.
Helana's revelation that she's actually a time traveler from 500 million years in the future, trapped in teenage form after absorbing too much dimensional energy, transforms the entire narrative scope while Henry Schmidt's engineer mind provides brilliant analogies—comparing reality's structure to cell phone technology where multiple conversations share carrier waves through 'Time Division Multiplexing.' Ella's embarrassed diary entry perfectly captures the surreal contrast between cosmic revelations and teenage mortification: she's witnessed phenomena from other dimensions and lived aboard a warship, but she's still dying of embarrassment because her psychic sisters can't stop broadcasting their crushes to sensitive empaths, making them 'walk around naked' mentally.