Quote Originally Posted by Cloudane View Post
She was afraid of what would happen - she says that in the Mideel bit. She probably thought it'd trigger a breakdown or something.

He does experience flashbacks, but he has conversations in his head too - when he falls into the church, when he's sleeping at Junon etc.

Come to think of it, when you go to the top-left room at HoneyBee you meet up with a ghostly manifestation of Cloud, so yes it probably is his real/other/younger consciousness rather than Sephiroth or whoever.
Confirm that bit. Cloud talks to himself in those parts of the story. A few hints you should've picked up: he sometimes avoids retelling his past with lines such as "let's leave it alone for now" or "let's go on with the story".

He's lied about his identity, but it's also true that he's a "failed experiment" (Hojo attempted to make a Sepiroth clone out of him). You could say that this whole mess was a mix of his lies and Jenova's power to engineer memories.

One more query i've been getting from mates was the Nibelheim "fire or no fire" question. There WAS a fire in Nibelheim and Shinra was responsible for restoring the town to its original state. Actors were hired to play the parts of citizens as if nothing ever happened. You can make up your own mind on the matter by reading the letter on the desk in Tifa's room which explains the situation in Nibelheim and the Sepiroth clones.