Melcheor, the B word? British? Unless you know something I don't know, I can't see anything wrong with that.
In any case, unless you failed to understand it, the point of the story was that Stephen saw all that crap in his dreams.
"Every time when night beckoned, he visited places and met people his friends could only dream of." The same applied to him.
It's a rather pointless point but a point nonetheless.
Pointy-pointy!