The snakes and the Garden don't look quite real. Almost as if they were old, something that doesn't quite fit with the current cycle. Sort of like a standard definition to the rest of the world's HD. When he looks through it though, the influence of the snake and the Garden aren't nearly as intense, or gone altogether, depending on how you want to play it. He'd be able to enter the Garden as well without getting the tattoo and won't see the hallucinations as intensely.

He may even be able to help those that are having a hard time...

There's a nearly invisible sheen around the courthouse. Almost as if there's a Plexiglas looking wall around it. wonder why that is