When Tyler and the Narrator are together.....
When they're together, who is who? For example, when they're in the car together, is he Tyler or is he just imagining Tyler. I'm just confused because when Tyler was revealing himself in the hotel room, he says the narrator can only see him because he's asleep. But if he's asleep, he is Tyler, not himself. Is it just that when he wakes up and recalls the events, even though he was Tyler, he still refers to Tyler in the third person, thinking he was himself?
Like Big S said it's kinda untrustable and arbitrary in the way or "rules" in which they changed personalities, or who was who at what time, even according to some of the things Tyler said ("You work night jobs because you can't sleep. Or you make soap" sorry, i don't exactly remember) The fact that you're being told the story by an unreliable narrator with a logically impossible mental illness doesn't particularly help.
In any case, i always liked to imagine that the one who "took lead" i mean, the one who was in the body at the moment, was the one that was more vital for that moment (Tyler When saying the rules of Fight Club or leading Project Mayhem, The Narrator when being with Marla or hating his life, etc.) But ultimately i think it's one of those things that the audience just has to let go since it has no other explanation than "It's fiction"
"It is not reason, more or less furnished, but will that makes the world march"
I am alone.
he says the narrator can only see him because he's asleep.
Is this from the book? It's been forever since I read it, so I just have to go by the film. But I don't think he ever had to be asleep to see Tyler. He saw him on the plane, talking on the phone, at the bar, etc.
I always saw it more as was said up there, just which ever personality was dominate at the time was who was there.
It's like when they have the first fight, it would have looked weird as heck to a third or fourth person standing there watching it, but they were both technically there fighting.
schizophrenia.
also,
metaphor.
It's all kind of BS because you're being told a story by an unreliable narrator so you only know what he "knew". Everything in the story is from his skewed point of view. So it's probably BS.