The Doctor focuses inward. He forces the fog to clear, purposely calling out for the flood of memories that lay beyond. Over 900 years worth of recollections, remembrances, trivia, and minuitae. He opens the mental floodgate, and they rush out at him like a tidal wave.

He feels his mind blown away by the force of it, swallowed by the onrushing wall. He flails under the weight of it all. And then, suddenly, it's as if a hand grips his and pulls him clear.