They seemed to go on forever, a jumbled mess of happy memories, each one partially obscured by blinding white light.

As there is no better way to mess a machine up that to go rampaging through the registry changing things, a rogue user accessing your registry remotely could prove disastrous.

He likens the sudden awareness to the feeling you get when you wake up after a long night carousing, the lights go on, and you realize you're a mess.