My Response to Jacqueline's Eighth Blog

I was thinking about this too! I wrote about this for DQ 19, and in my opinion, I think the reader has to decide if it was real, or if it was all a dream. I basically broke it down like this: if you treat time life the cat does, then it was real, but if you treat time in the way every normal human being does, it was probably all a dream. If you think about it, a cat lives life in the moment. Every instance is new, and does not relate to any other past moment. If you read the story and do not relate it to any other event that has happened in the book, then it all seems real, and not like Dahlmann is crazy. But, if you look at every event in the story, and relate them all to each other, it really does seem like he is having a crazy vivid dream at the sanitarium.