Dream State

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of illness, death, death by suicide, and addiction.

Cece is hiking one day and gets lost. A ranger directs her, and when she returns home just as it is getting dark, Garrett is worried. She does not tell him that she has been hearing a strange, whispering voice, but Garrett has noticed that she has been mixed up as of late. He insists that Cece see a doctor.

The doctor gives Cece a cognitive test. Part of the test requires that she draw a clock, and Cece cannot. The doctor wants Cece to see a neurologist for further testing and gives her a pamphlet with instructions on ways to stave off Alzheimer’s disease.

Over the next few days, Cece remains angry and embarrassed at failing the test. She calls Lana, but Lana is too busy to talk. Cece stops at her bookstore, but it is quiet, and she tells her clerk to close early. One day, she culls unsold used books from the shelves, which she and Garrett box up to donate to a nearby nursing home. At the nursing home, Cece insists on peeking into the memory care unit.