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Originally Posted by octothorp

Regarding dimensions:

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I think the question is why the upside down seems to mirror our world geographically; there are more hints (but still no answers) in the dimension than in the monster itself. Is this an alternate dimension that at some point diverged from ours? Is it a 'future' version of ours? Is it a different dimension that ours has somehow infected? Maybe even an artificially-created dimension? Also, what did the monster eat before it got access to our dimension, because that other dimension looks pretty barren for such a voracious carnivore.

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the impression i got was that the monster itself was created when the government and the soviets started tampering with the psychic plane. I didn't get the feeling that the upside down was a place of any importance but rather a means for the monster to escape and elude capture. hence why it would be so barren and why the monster only eats things in our plane.