their trust for each other is insane. one word is all it takes for dean to reshape his whole worldview for sam. he actually chooses to believe someone telling him he’s in a fake reality.
dean spent 3 days staring at sam's bloated corpse, alone with it, having whole talks with it forget sleep forget eat he was with it 24/7 dean saw it as living & autonomous. it can consent. bc it's the same as him sam is here and he's with him. he's not cold inside, dean'd know