Dipper was born and raised in what people around him called a "gated community". Once he was old enough to understand he realized what it really was. Why he wasn't allowed to read anything the Church didn't approve of. Why everyday, anyone who had dreams was told to confess in private to Father Marks. Why everyone was forced to church everyday and every morning after church he had to pray with his family for an hour to a picture of a geometric shape. He was in a cult. Never having had a dream before, he never had to confess before. Until a strange man enters his dream and starts making him question everything.