I always figured the heroes in these were autobiographical.
I tend to do this sort of thing, too, though perhaps in a more "mainstream" way in that my memories of various stages in my life have been carefully vetted, retaining the fun or successful bits for story-telling and self-aggrandisement purposes whilst suppressing the failures and miserable experiences.
I get really pissed off at my dreams sometimes because they aren't so nicely compartmentalised. That's when the really shit memories come back as equals to the good ones, upsetting my whole quite fictional mental balance my conscious mind has created for itself.
"He's mad, you know. Quite mad."
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