Steve Huey of Allmusic described these combined themes as a loose concept album that is "often inscrutable, but still playful - about espionage, the Chinese Communist revolution, and dream associations."

In 2003, Siegfried and Jenni rented the first Child's Dream office in Chiang Mai and the Child's Dream Association was registered as a Swiss charity in Zurich, Switzerland.

Owing to the work's expansive linguistic experiments, stream of consciousness writing style, literary allusions, free dream associations, and its abandonment of the conventions of plot and character construction, Finnegans Wake remains largely unread by the general public.

Joyce's method of stream of consciousness, literary allusions and free dream associations was pushed to the limit in Finnegans Wake, which abandoned all conventions of plot and character construction and is written in a peculiar and obscure language, based mainly on complex multi-level puns.