I am a StarGate fan. This is my version of the gate. There is no dialing sequence. It is much more similar to the process that Maxwell Smart used. I ascend the stairs and I am transferred to an alternate universe. Strange things are normal (like in Alice in Wonderland). The absurd becomes the expected. The bizarre becomes the usual. At the end of my day I descend the staircase and all is normal again, except I carry the bizarre, absurd, abnormal experiences of my day back into the world that I know is "real".