Wish-verse

The Wish verse is the name given to the alternate reality Dean is forced into by the djinn in 2.20 What Is and What Should Never Be, so that it can keep him in a dream state while it feeds from his blood.

It is an important point that this is not Dean's veiw of how we wants his life to be, but rather a construct of his sub-conscious flowing from the one wish - that his mother died.

Sam: I thought it was supposed to be this perfect fantasy.

Dean: It wasn't. It was just a wish. I wished for Mom to live. Mom never died, we never went hunting and you and me just never... ya know.

In the Wish Verse, Dean has a girlfriend called Carmen, who we later learn is based on a model from a beer ad. Sam is at collge, and engaged to Jess; he and Dean are not close. Mary still lives in the family home, but John died the previous year.