and he remembered briefly that hed had some unusual dreams about an abandoned ghost town hed passed through once called yamiodd dreams about events that had never transpired in reality that included an unlikely mix of characters he knew from various other places and moments in his life ( including an oddly heartfelt cameo by his ex-wife , pinky satyajit ) , in addition to a host of other characters whom he had never known or met , but whom he could only assume were elements of his imagination , perhaps even reformulations of people he already knewone of the characters told a lot of digressive stories , which reminded him of rakesh-7 , and another character had reminded him in some ways of his mother , yuri , but only when she was angry .