Everything is a riddle, particularly Juke’s dreams. Here you can learn your degree of dream interpretation.
These spoilers ruin the fun of dream interpretation. Preserve some level of fun and resist the temptation to cheat to higher degrees without the effort (that never works).
And here I share empathy:
It is not wrong to hate this dream; we dream to live like me. This is the first degree.
The second to solve is how nights resolve days.
Count on yourself for any more than three.
For what is a muddle but a riddle out of context? What is a dream but life out of bounds?
The dreams are a monotonous, confusing, frustrating, obscure, pointless, and contrived fantasy trip through a religious hellscape.
The dreams are a monotonous, confusing, frustrating, obscure, pointless, and contrived fantasy trip through a religious hellscape, but expose the reader to experiencing the world like Juke, particularly when Juke struggles to figure things out in his day-to-day life. This is how it feels to be a person with autism and profound intellectual disability.
Juke dreams about himself. Specifically, Juke’s dreams are 100 percent parallels to his days: each night’s dream repeats (nearly verbatim) what Juke experienced that day, with the same cast of characters. As the reader sees these patterns and starts to anticipate and figure them out, the dreams are no longer entirely a monotonous, confusing, frustrating, obscure, pointless, and contrived fantasy trip through a religious hellscape, but instead a series of riddles that can be solved and may be worth the effort. This is how Juke actually experiences life: he figures many things out, and while there is much that he does not, it is overall a positive experience—moreso as he solves more of the riddles.
Using a representation of the Mormon conception of a spiritual pre-mortal existence, the dreams explore a faith crisis through a retelling of the biblical Genesis story—including a modern update of the temptation and Fall of Adam (Julian) and Eve (Emily). The primary focus is the Mormon doctrine that people with disabilities were elect spirits in the pre-Existence and thus do not have to be tested during Earth life like people without disabilities. The key decision Eve and Adam face is whether to exist, or more specifically, whether to give birth to Julian, knowing fate. Julian represents an innocent figure forced to discern what is right in this bewildering world. Whether this Genesis story represents truth or reaffirms faith is up to the reader to decide.
Note that Celestial Glory can be obtained without realizing Juke’s dreams (1) force the reader to experience life like a person with autism and profound intellectual disability, or (2) parallel his days.
Ought not to be revealed at the present time. Email h.d.logic@icloud.com
Ought not to be revealed at the present time. Email h.d.logic@icloud.com