ThisIf you go through my comment history , you ' ll see I have called every theory so far . Multiple timelines , Tmibwill , barnard is a host . Here are my next ones DThe true present is when TMiB is grabbing Delores as in episode one . In that moment she is reliving all of her memories with himwill . In that moment , Teddy is reliving his recent memories with TMiB . There ' s a book by Marcel Proust where the smell of a biscuit in his tea causes the entire narrative to unfold within a single moment . Dolores is the maze , or at least the end of it . Perhaps TMiB thinks he must kill Dolores his past love to solve the maze , thus confronting his own humanity , the true goal of WW . Also , Bernard was built from the image of Arnold .