Goat Island to Stella was life itself. Everything that she could have ever needed was on Goat Island and saw no reason to leave. But when Stella crossed over The Reach to go to the mainland, she also crossed into a type of spacetime. The Reach caused the past memories and friendships that were created from her life on Goat Island to reappear. She saw her dead friends and husband, and was even given a hat after her’s blew off by her husband’s ghost. The Reach acted as a sort of limbo between the real world and the afterlife. The friendships and memories that Stella made on Goat island, which were thought to be gone forever, resurfaced. When Stella left Goat Island, she left her life and crossed over into a space where time and space did not matter – spacetime. The space after spacetime, or mainland is the afterlife.