sentences:  The reason Jake simply "woke up" back at the grocery store was that the Jake in the rainforest died at the hands of Visser Three; since it is impossible for one consciousness to exist in two separate locations, when one was eliminated the two snapped back together.Ax also speculates that Jake "had" to die, or else both Jakes and both their universes would collide and cease to exist.The events in the rainforest never actually happened (including the acquisition of jaguar and monkey morphs), and only remain in Jake's memory.