Something like that, though I imagine our captors, whoever they are, don't see it in such elaborate terms.

[It could BE a muffin if it wanted. ...Not that it'd taste very good if it did, but--]

That's the other half of the theory--that any memories we make here, we lose upon our departure. Which would explain why no one noticed we were gone, not even ourselves.

[And why, for example, Kirihara-kun didn't tell them all about it the moment he gets back.]