the novel would tell the stories and fictional dreams of the main character. at first, he only has weird dreams and his dreams are far from realistic but as time goes on his dreams start to resemble reality. after a while he is trapped between his fictional, imaginary world and the real world. he becomes incapable of understanding either one nor is he able to identify in which world he is living. his social relationships start to fade. all of his worlds begin to crumble until he just lives in his dreams completely separated from reality. in his first dream, he is gone mad he hears voices and becomes incapable of realizing when he is dreaming and when he is not. due to this he quit being a functional member of society know just stays in his apartment doing anything but wishing his ex-wife hadn't left him. as this goes on and he runs out of money to pay for his basic necessities he starts to seek help but is been so long since he had contact with any person or any living creature at all, his common sense and general social rules are forgotten to him he ends up in trouble. then he wakes up sweaty, fear imprinted in his facial features. it was all a dream he proceeds to get ready for his pointless job. with nothing existing or even unique about himself he just floats around life doing what society expects of him without a sense of purpose or with a will to live just a pointless, meaningless existence.