when Fiddleford and Ford did the portal test when they finished it in 1984, it went wrong. in Fiddleford’s fatigue, he left the rope that had the dummy that they were gonna send into the portal around his wrist so he had his upper body in the portal. Luckily, Ford got him out of the dimension but FiddleFord had seen things (the nightmare realm and bill cipher without his exoskeleton to feed) Ford: sitting on the ground shaking FiddleFord while he was laying in his arms speak to me FiddleFord, what did you see..?! sounded a bit angry and concerned FiddleFord: went into shock and couldn’t speak or move and eyes were widened and dilated and was breathing shallowly and blood wasn’t circulating enough in body