A Dream-like Narrative

Recently, I had a dream in which I killed someone by stabbing them multiple times.  No one in my dream was upset by this.  When I woke up, I immediately thought of The Stranger, and how oddly dream like the narrative was.  For example, the main character, Mersault, seems to feel no emotions.  He doesn't cry at his mother's funeral, he kills a man with out hesitation, he says that love doesn't mean anything. Normally, this would make him a sociopath.  But Mersault does feel emotions--he is hurt by the people who obviously hate him, and he gets angry at the priest near the end of the book.  This is similar to dreams where tragic things happen and are ignored.  Also similar to dreams:

• The lack of a sense of time.  We don't know how long Mersault is in prison, and he himself loses track of time constantly. 
• Subtle eerie background happenings that don't faze Mersault very much but are definitely bizarre, like the newspaper article about a man being killed by his family when he tried to scare him, and the old people who all sit and stare at him before his mother's funeral.
• The way the court focuses on Mersault's perceived lack of feelings instead of the fact that he murdered the Arab for almost no reason.
• The constant influence of the sun on Mersault's actions, and the blinding heat that is described with feelings, textures and colors.
• The casual acceptance of violence, like Raymond's abuse of his girlfriend, and the old man's abuse of his dog.
• How Mersault casually accepts the fact that he's in court for having killed a man and tries to help the lawyers but doesn't try to lie or make up excuses.

So, obviously The Stranger is not a very long, bizarre dream.  That doesn't mean that it wouldn't make a lot of sense if Mersault was dreaming.  And really, who doesn't have weird dreams?