I would connect the fake reality aspect of the book to a personal experience. A year and a half ago my sixteen year old cousin committed suicide and spent 3 days in the hospital in a coma on life support before finally passing away on Easter Sunday. During those 3 days my sister and mom went to Kansas City to stay with my family and help however they could. They all spent a lot of time in the hospital sleeping there and waiting for news; my mom shared that during those few days whenever anyone woke up for the first few seconds of being awake they would be in your own reality (like Farquhar) forgetting they were in the hospital (on the bridge), and forgetting what had happened (he was caught). Only after being fully awake would reality set in, even now we all still have our days of waking up and for those first few seconds forgetting what happened and being in our own happy reality.
