Throughout the whole of Philip K. Dicks novel UBIK, the characters are confused and question what is going on around them and why certain things are happening to them. The readers end up feeling just as confused as those within the book and start to make up their own ideas of what could be happening, which is probably what Dick wanted. He hopes that his readers think for themselves and realize that life won’t always make sense. One of the first very confusing moments in the novel is after everyone returns from the explosion on Luna and Joe Chip gets a hotel room. When he wakes up in the morning he picks up the phone to order room service, hearing a voice on the other end before he even dials. Afterwards, “Joe hung up the phone and stood