Taka (Will Yun Lee) is a New York City police detective who cares for his catatonic mother, which complicates his life and his dreams. In the opening episode, he catches a case involving a mass suicide. The dead were wearing green sneakers. Connections, connections, connections.

Then there’s Burton (David Ajala), who handles security for an international investment house that is in the middle of a major deal involving a Belgian diplomat and mineral rights in Mongolia. While sorting out security issues, he is also trying to sort out his recurrent dreams of a mysterious woman he seems to be having a fling with but knows nothing about.

The show is aggressively cryptic, jumping between reality and dreams and not caring whether you can sort out which is which. David Lynch had some television success with that sort of disorientation with “Twin Peaks,” but this series may not catch the same buzz because it’s not quirky, just elusive. Lucid dreaming — controlling your own dreams — is a thing these days, and USA is no doubt hoping the series capitalizes on it, especially through the younger viewing demographic.

“A New Study Finds Why Some of Us May Dream Better Than Others,” the channel announced in a news release this week pegged to the show. The study supposedly found that younger people “are by far the ‘best’ dreamers, reporting more vivid and lucid dreams than the general population.” Take that, oldsters — not only can you not master Snapchat, but you also can’t even dream decently.

The thing is, younger people also can be short on patience, and patience is what you need to buy into this series. Also, faith that all the abstruse wanderings will eventually get someplace. After the four episodes made available for advance viewing, things were clarifying somewhat and an addictive quality was emerging, but not everyone may get that far.