After his most recent round of
nightmares, Tim is really in no mood to try to sleep. He sets himself up in the Sensorium with a program he's used before to try to relieve stress--which he's privately dubbed "No Man's Land." The program isn't
really what it was like, but there's the same feeling that it's just going to go on and on, and never end.
Of course, Tim programmed it that way, for nights (days? It's hard to tell time on the ship) when he feels just like this--like he'd rather do
anything but lie down and try to sleep. Before, it was because he didn't want to think. Now--he doesn't want to dream.
Still. If he
won't can't sleep, he might as well do something useful with his time. Wave after wave of thugs and ninjas come at him, all trying to take him down.
Maybe eventually he'll get tired enough to sleep...