Unanswered questions or did I miss something? *Spoilers*

>> 1. So what happened to all the people that died in the village such as 909, Lucy, and 6's "brother"? I know that 2's wife is alive in reality, but nothing is said as to what happened to the others that died.

The nature of the village is a shared other-consciousness, not subconsciousness or unconsciousness, but another state, as explained by 2. This o-consciousness is maintained in the mind of the primary dreamer, 2's wife, who theorized and then discovered this new state. The show doesn't explain the mechanism for entering and leaving the Village, but it does demonstrate that its inhabitants exist simultaneously in the waking world.

Dying in the Village just means exiting the shared o-consciousness, presumably to exist in the "normal" waking and sleeping states.

>>> 2. How are they brought to the village in the first place? Are their real bodies constantly given drugs or something? This was not explained at all.

No, it wasn't explained.

It's not difficult to imagine possible mechanisms, if we accept for the sake of the story that such a place exists. But trying to explain these mechanisms us up all sorts of discussions, and i think the show was very much NOT about the mechanism.

>>> 3. Why were they given numbers as names? Eh?

THE REAL REASON: That's the way it was in the original series.

In the original serious, the point of the numbers in the original was to dehumanize the Village residents.

I don't see a good reason why the remake's Village should keep the name-number scheme, except as a cool artifact for us fans of the original. (and because fans would scream holy murder if the numbers had been discarded!)

So here's a wild theory from me (just a theory, feel free to debunk):

Since the Village "structure" is maintained by the primary dreamer, the environment inherits certain quirks from her mind - like all those wraps, for example. Since she doesn't know the residents until they enter the Village, maybe they just get assigned numbers as an easy way to insert them into the order and structure of the Village world. They fill in the details of their lives themselves. A name is just a name - we don't pick our own names, after all - so names don't have the same priority in the Village dreamscape.

4. How exactly did the village help these people in real life? I mean, did they seperate the messed up part of them and that part was sent to the village or what?

Think of it as dream therapy. lol.

The way i see it, when something is troubling me, it's easy to get into a non-productive cycle of obsessing on something. Simply getting out and *doing* something can often be helpful. Other things can also help - social interactions, education, recreation, a visit to a doctor, etc. The Village offers a way for a person to receive that assistance while they're still functioning in the real world.

During the 6's chat with the limo driver, I got the impression the driver didn't know about the Village - that all that "work therapy" helped him out without him knowing the cause. This led me to believe that most Village residents are unaware, and only the dreamers know about the other states.

It's like not remembering your dreams, but still benefiting from REM sleep.

>>> 5. So what happened when you fall into one of the holes?

You exit the Village. You're still in the waking world and the normal dreaming world, but you don't exist in the shared consciousness of the Village any longer.

2 explained it well - it (literally) is nothingness.

>>> This show was just way too confusing with so many unanswered questions.

Perhaps. But i liked it for the most part.