Weirder than this? Great. Then again, why pull someone into a strange reality and not fuck with them? That was partially the point of it all, wasn't it. To be strange and weird and not at all understandable.
"Is that the reason for whatever that is you're wearing?" And yeah, Hansel might be a little bit fixated on it, but he had good reason to be. Like the device and the strange setting, it was out of context, massively out of context for Hansel right then.
But even with no idea of just what was going on, provided he was there with Gretel, who had apparently been here longer -still not making sense- then Hansel could probably cope with whatever else needed explaining.