You're dreaming. How do two associated, adjacent objects have different numbers of clouds in front of them? Clouds that absorb light and re-emit it at wavelengths dictated by the allowable energy levels of the hydrogen electron, thus tagging the re-emitted light with the cloud's redshift?
Different Lyman-Alpha forest, different redshifts, different distances. The more shifted, the more clouds in front, the farther away. QED.
Did you not know this? You've certainly posted Arp-based sillies and had Lyman-Alpha-based answers before.