Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24622215-20140827152255/@comment-24224475-20140920155827

Bill has no powers in the real world, besides watching. Every time he appears while someone is awake, everything turns black and white and time seems to stop. This may mean that he stops time to appear in the physical world, but can do nothing else. Or, he only appears in a person's dreams. In Dreamscaperers, Gideon summons Bill, and when that happens time seems to stop and everything turns black and white. Bill appears, then they make the deal, but after that, when Bill disappears through the flash of light, Gideon, Mabel, and Soos appear to be acting as if they had woken up. Same thing with Dipper in Sock Opera. After Bill appeared and told Dipper he can make a deal with him, Dipper seemed to wake up screaming. This may prove that Bill only appears in a person's dreams, and he only appears as a ghost in the physical world for only a few people to see. The only other real power he has in the physical world is watching, because if his power could be fulfilled in the real world, even a flick of his hand may be able to blow up a nearby planet, because he says in Sock Opera he is "a powerful being of pure energy".

Once again, I bore everyone with my reasoning logic. I am ashamed.