英语中西文化阅读－吹牛大话

关于吹牛，中国文化和西方文化的幽默方式真是不一样。西方文化注重逻辑严密，而中国文化讲求整体性和模糊性。下面这段话请你仔细想一想，是真的吗？
A friend told me this story. He can stretch the truth a bit, so I’m not surewhether to believe him. But on the other hand, truth can be stranger thanfiction! What do you think?
Two brothers were watching a horror film on video late one night. Onebrother dozed off and dreamed that he was being chased by the crazy manfrom the movie, who was trying to kill him. In the dream, he hid in acupboard. There was no sound except his heart pounding, and he had noidea where his crazed captor was. He was terrified! At that moment, thevideo finished, and his brother put his hand on the shoulder of hissleeping sibling to wake him. The shock at that tense moment was enoughthat the sleeping brother suffered a massive heart attack and died instantly