<p>If life is but a dream, to what do we awake? The central premise of Dreamstate: A Conspiracy Theory, is the admittedly ridiculous but incontrovertibly true assertion that the universe does not exist. This is something you can understand conceptually, like watching a documentary about Antarctica, or experientially, like moving to Antarctica. There&rsquo;s also a related phenomenon where you fall asleep watching the documentary and wake up in the frozen wasteland. That&rsquo;s gotta be weird, but the truth is that you&rsquo;re asleep in the wasteland dreaming that you&rsquo;re not, so that&rsquo;s where waking up gets you.</p>