This is an alternate possibility to the after Knifer encountered Celestia.

I slowly awoke, and looked around.
I was human again, and I was in my room, with everything was the way it would have been in the morning.
Nothing had changed.
I got ready for the day, did my job, had dinner, and got ready to sleep again.
I thought about the short time I was in my dream, the vivid, colorful world in there.
I knew I would somewhat miss it so, and I knew that there were two possibilities.
It was just a dream.
But I hoped for the second one.
That it was real.
And I hoped to go back, this time willingly.
But I knew that wouldn't happen.
I cried myself to sleep for the first time in years.