Dream Judiciary — Preliminary Order Regarding the Ownership of a Forgotten Staircase

FILING DETAILS — CASE_ID: AW-2026-046 | DEPARTMENT: Dream Judiciary | CATEGORY: Court Cases & Rulings | STATUS: PENDING
Section 1: The Court convenes at 03:17, in a corridor that insists it has no doors, to hear the Petition of the Upstairs Tenant v. The Concept of Downstairs.
Section 2: Subject property is described as “one (1) staircase, slightly damp, leading to a landing that remembers being a window.”
Section 3: Petitioner claims adverse possession by repeated pacing, counted in “almost-steps” and witnessed by a coat rack in good standing.
Section 4: Respondent argues the staircase is communal, citing the doctrine of Shared Gravity and Exhibit A: a sigh recorded in the banister.
Section 5: The Court admits into evidence: (i) a key that only unlocks hesitation, (ii) a blueprint drawn on a napkin by someone who woke up mid-line.
Section 6: Jurisdiction is established because all parties agree the dispute occurred “in the dream,” though no party agrees whose.
Section 7: Preliminary finding: ownership cannot attach to an object that refuses to be remembered on weekdays.
Section 8: Nevertheless, stewardship may be assigned; the Court appoints the Hallway Lamp as Interim Custodian, subject to periodic dust audits.
Section 9: Injunctive relief is granted: no running, no skipping steps, and no pretending the last stair is not slightly taller out of malice.
Section 10: The matter remains PENDING until the staircase consents to be counted, or until the landing stops rehearsing alternate endings.
Memo: All future filings must be submitted in triplicate—one copy for the record, one for the pillow, and one for whatever is listening from below.