This just hit me so when everyone kept questioning the eye dance Ateez kept doing they could be mimicking a telescope and trying to look for the stars to guide them to their treasure. At the end of Thanxx and in Illusion a ship can be seen sailing through a storm and usually

Heading through a storm is difficult as you have to deal with not only rough waters but you loose sight of the stars as the clouds block you. Uncertainty is what leads many astray as sailors believe they’re heading one way when in reality they’re heading another and many end up

Sinking because of those mistakes. The group might need someone or something that’ll be able to guide them through the storm kinda like how mist asks for someone to help show them they’re going the right way. Now they need a new star to guide them. Hj being in a dark room at

The end of inception could mean he no longer has a star to guide him to his dream and is lost in this void without it. And the members stumbling around the hallways could be an allusion to how ships tend to rock when caught in a severe storm.

This is irrelevant to the previous topic but Wooyoung is seen lighting a match in illusion and seonghwa does so also in Wonderland. There’s a phrase that says “burn ones boat” which was a way of signaling the point of no return. Basically one would burn the boat to show

That they would either fail or they would succeed as there was no way out now they had to finish the journey.

I’m telling y’all fever to wonderland is gonna happen in some form or way

Why does point of no return make me think of the phantom of the opera and the phantom with his white mask hiding in the opera with his shattered chandelier