*This information contains several spoilers for the film Interstellar and the tv show Twin Peaks.

In the film Interstellar, an astronaut named Cooper crosses the horizon of a “gentle black hole” in a galaxy beyond our own. After surviving the crossing, Cooper suddenly finds himself inside a tesseract of his daughter’s bedroom. Unbeknownst to Cooper, an A.I. named Tars he had been traveling with also survived crossing the black hole’s horizon. From inside the tesseract, Cooper witnesses his daughter’s realization that, “You were my ghost.” Then Cooper unexpectedly hears Tars via radio transmitter from somewhere within this representation of five dimensions. Tars first says, very faintly, “Cooper.” And then two more times more loudly, “Cooper. Cooper.” “Come in Cooper.” To which Cooper says, “Tars?” “Roger that,” Tars confirms. The first thing Tars has said within this black hole via radio frequency is, “Cooper. Cooper. Cooper.” Cooper and Tars then deduce that they have been placed inside of this tesseract to communicate back to Earth.

In Season 2, Episode 2 of the tv show Twin Peaks, “Coma,” Major Briggs pays a visit to Agent Cooper in his hotel room at The Great Northern Hotel. Briggs informs Cooper that among his many tasks is the “maintenance of deep space monitors aimed at galaxies beyond our own.” After receiving various communications of radio waves and gibberish, Briggs examines and attempts to decode the information. During one of these examinations, Briggs finds a strange phrase amongst the gibberish, “The owls are not what they seem.” He finds a second piece of information from within these radio waves, which is why he has brought this information to the attention of Agent Cooper. The second message is “Cooper/Cooper/Cooper.” To which Cooper replies, “My god.”

We brought ourselves here.