The boy is the painter at age 5. The glass door/window is the divider between current reality & the dream state. The hands represent different paths or lives the boy could live. The girl is a robotic doll that's supposed to guide him through the dream state to see his possible futures, and she's holding a drycell battery in her hand that's supposed to power her, but since she's holding it, it implies she's alive on her own without electrical power.
The boy is the painter at age 5. The glass door/window is the divider between current reality & the dream state. The hands represent different paths or lives the boy could live. The girl is a robotic doll that's supposed to guide him through the dream state to see his possible futures, and she's holding a drycell battery in her hand that's supposed to power her, but since she's holding it, it implies she's alive on her own without electrical power.