"It's a great question and we are, for the moment, limited in what we ought to rush and try out."
"My working theory is that there is a way that asleep Pelican Town works, and a way that asleep people believe Pelican Town works. They wake up, maybe in pieces, as you point out pieces of sleeping Pelican Town that don't fit with the sleeping model of Pelican Town. It happens when you steer them to look at the way things are, and actually think about them, and see the contradictions and the incoherence and the way it doesn't fit together. Then they start to think about what they're seeing, they can't just load in the usual prerecorded sleepy thoughts, and that means they're thinking."
"Or it could be as simple as, once you point out to somebody that they always have 0G, they look and realize it and then they can't buy things. Does Marnie still have an infinite amount of hay or an infinite amount of chickens? Maybe Marnie can still buy things because nobody's pointed out to her specifically that she has zero G, even if she's awoken to her inifinite hay supply."