Mustafa’s dream theory helps us better understand many complicated shards of SHARDS and provides us with justification for most of them. Few of these very complicated events are Mustafa’s appearance in conjunction with Ismet, existence of Eric and other characters surrounding Ismet, as well as the final letter supposedly from Ismet’s mother. Appearance of both Mustafa and Ismet together is best explained by Mustafa himself when he writes – “So there was me standing there looking out of my skull but there was also me looking down at myself looking out of my skull” – he had dreams where he was both viewing it, just like all other dreams, and also a part of it (Prcic 359). Existence of Eric and other characters surrounding Ismet can be simply
