The Tell-Tale Heart

 I honestly think that the person telling this tragic story is delirious.  That is the only reasonable explanation for telling this story.  Either that or it is a dream.  But I also think that the person is still crazy even if it is a dream because the average, normal, person will most likely not have a dream like this.  This "dream" was very critical and full of gory detail.  He was saying how the mans eye bothered him but took it to the extreme by killing him and cutting off his arms, legs, etc.  Then when he was hearing the "heart beat" that made him crazy because no one can hear a heart beat.  Plus the second time when the police came and he began to freak out, every else in the room didn't hear anything.  This goes on to another point that if he killed the man and hid him underneath the floor boards, why, if the police comes to check the house because some one called complaining about a scream, would he take the police to the exact room over the exact spot that he hid the man's body?  I understand that he was trying not to be suspicious, but he stayed there and talked to them and had a drink with them, then decides to have this sudden mood swing where he got nervous and just gave his self away.  This shows that he has a problem because a normal person would not have taken the police there and stayed there knowing that they might get too nervous and give it away.  So rather it was a dream or not, something is wrong with the narrator.