I'm going to agree with the idea that the film plays out like some sort of elaborate nightmare. It's surreal in it's imagery but, like any good nightmare that occurs naturally, it follows some sort of plot even if it doesn't make any sense.
Lynch sets up a world for us that we have to accept right away without explanation. For example, things like the industrial wasteland landscape that we are introduced to at the beginning of the film, or the man with the chemically burned face, describes a world where the human being is not the most important factor. The film doesn't go into why this is or how this society works because, as in a nightmare, the audience is just merely seeing it happen and are meant to accept it as a way of life in this newly adopted reality. Also, the tiny chicken scene just goes without saying.
Really, it's just that the whole movie feels like a bad dream that David Lynch had one night in college. The bottom line is: This shit is scary. It makes us feel uncomfortable but interested. Eraserhead is like a nightmare that you don't want to wake yourself up from.
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