I've got a correction to make! I didn't mean this simply as a dream, and I didn't re-read my ending properly (which I wrote the week before) and I now see it really just points out to being a dream.

Except for what the Guardian says: "...wake up from this quantum-dream", which I really should've explained better and will try to do here: (quoting myself from my reply to @fraenk, who also called me out on this being just a dream:

a quantum-dream would be like flinching and finding yourself in a different reality; looking behind you and instantly being in a complete new world...
So no, not just a dream but a dream within a dream outside of a dream that's being dreamt by a dreamer's dream persona - or anything that's even more inexplicable :P

Thanks for poking me between the ribs, it hurt a bit but I see I didn't explain it well enough :)