Summary:

In the near future, The Narrator suffers from insomnia and is recommended to see Dr. Blue and Dr. Wells, two doctors who have found a new treatment for insomnia. The program (unlike medication currently available) will have permanent effect on the patient, causing him/her to sleep like a normal person. However, the program consists of the patient taking the medication and having psychological evaluations for a full week. After he complies, The Narrator beats his insomnia, but due to his childhood epilepsy combined with the medicine begins to hallucinate. He sees that someone has been in his apartment. But who would break into the forth floor and only HIS building?

His instability makes him see things and eventually drives him to things he never thought he was emotionally capable of doing.

After witnessing the evils of human nature and after bad luck strikes The Narrator, he will eventually have to distinguish reality from fantasy, but the novel poses the question: What’s so good about the harsh reality we live in today? Isn’t fantasy much more fulfilling? Isn’t ignorance bliss?

The story also questions organzied beliefs and compares it to individual thought.