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The hat room being the nightmare room is a decent theory but a couple things make me believe that it’s not the case. Firstly, Aurora and Henry both described themselves as being in a corner. The room inside the hate looked to be completely circular with no corners. Secondly, they both said they could see the other person through the flames, enough to see their eyes, The hat room is HUGE and unless they were sitting fairly close to each other they wouldn’t be able to see the other person’s eyes very easily.
One thing I haven’t seen brought up is what Regina tells Snow about what the sleeping curse does to a person. I found a good YouTube video of the scene (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4DYyzJBmWg) and I’ll type it up here:
Regina: It won’t kill you. No, what it will do is far worse. Your body will be your tomb. And you’ll be in there with nothing but dreams formed of your own regrets.
What that means or if it even applies to the room in question remains to be seen. But I think this could provide some insight.
[adrotate group="5"]Sorry but I’m not buying the fairy in the box theory. First of all fairies seem to glow pretty brightly, especially at night, and when he opened the box there was no glow. No nothing. Whatever was in the box did not give off light. It had to be an item of some sort.
That being said, I think the theory I’m gonna stick with for now is that August’s box has a magical ability to show whoever looks into it what they want to see.
I posed this over in the OUAT subreddit but I wanted to post it here as well.
As we’re all aware Snow White appeared to recognize the nightmare Aurora was describing. Snow appeared visibly upset and scared by it. This suggests she encountered the same room in her nightmares after she awoke from her own sleeping curse. Now the big question: why the heck is Henry of all people having this nightmare?
Think back to the end of season 1. Henry eats the poisonous apple, the same one in fact that poisoned Snow, turnover that Regina had made and meant for Emma to eat. Therefore we have 2 of 3 people who have suffered the exact same nightmare being linked by experiencing a sleeping curse from Regina.
By this logic we can gather that Aurora’s sleeping curse was most likely cast by Regina and maybe the red room is some sort of magical limbo your consciousness goes to when you’re under a sleeping curse. It could vary by who casts the curse and this just so happens to be Regina’s version of the room. If not, it might be a general side-effect from suffering a sleeping curse but since we only have a few cases to explore we can’t say for sure.
However this does not explain why Henry seemingly saw Aurora in her nightmare and Aurora saw Henry in hers. I like the idea of it becoming a way for Charming and Snow to communicate between worlds. That is pretty clever and would be very cool.
August and Neal both appeared to not recognize each other. Therefore how would August know that whatever he had in the wooden box would convince Neal? To him, Neal was just a petty criminal from the Real World. So whatever he showed Neal in the box had to be recognized as universally magical in nature. That’s just my opinion and this show has a tendency to screw with your head. That being said, even though it may have been a universally recognized magical item, Neal could still have a connection to whatever it was and August just didn’t know it.
At first I thought this was going to be a silly theory but I was pleasantly surprised. This is a pretty cool idea and I never caught that August’s license plate was from Kansas, good eye! Your post also made me think of a really cool dynamic that they might explore similar to the one from LOST with the two brothers on the island, one light and one dark.
Following your theory, Bae could become the Wizard of Oz develop his own power and allies in that realm while, well, we know how his father has turned out. It would be quite interesting to see a conflict play out between Bae and Rumple with them both wielding considerable power.
