Obviously, it was pulling in a lot of his academic theory into the dreams—standing out from the pack makes you a target—but what it was supposed to mean, as far as our plot goes, was really unclear. We have him experiencing one of the dreams, being hunted, or the book signing, extolled only by these French weirdos. Is it just something about the downside of fame? And that’s it, with nothing deeper? It felt like Beau Is Afraid (which was written and directed by this film’s producer), but it doesn’t seem like it had that array of interconnecting ideas beyond the surface message.