After he had seen the pyramids of Egypt and had walked the Great Wall of China, he decided to come back to his body from his astral projection; but when he pulled the silver thread, he realized, horrified, that it has been cut.
At his home, his son was shaking him, strongly, by the shoulders trying to wake him up, because he had had a terrible nightmare and he wanted his daddy to tell him that it was just a dream.
The end.