Ok, I completely forgot to read this story after I sad I would read it. This is a perfect example of bring the reality of dreams (???) to a reader, how dreams can be sown on writing. Amazing. So Sum off, correct me if I'm wrong but this is what happened: The character is dreaming here: "A man wearing a properly ironed purple shirt rolls up his sleeves and clears his throat. He says, “This is not a complex story. A complex story is not fragmented; this one is. ........" He is speaking in his dream. however, you said that one could be imaginative so that part could be interpreted as him speaking in his sleep while dreamng, as if explaining things to someone [he is not complex but he sure is smart enough to say things like that as is told to him by the officer. He knows he is smart and his dream tells him that] From that point on, he keeps on talking in his sleep but his dreams are skewed because he has information overload. His friend falling is true, him expecting him to be fit and slim in the dream is his "sympathy over affection", the story (dream) about his ex-nun is his reality but keeps haunting in his dream. His dream about his ambitious friend is partly fear vs anger etc. etc.... Since he keeps talking in his dream, his wife got fed up and finaly woke him. Ki ke ho???...that's what I understood. AMAZING PIECE THOUGH!!!!!keep it coming!!!1