The Big Dream
November 19, 2009So Daniel Lott wrote a really good blog about the whole concept of this book being a dream, and I am going to feed off of what he wrote.
His question at the end of his blog was, ” So is this really all a dream?”
I also think that it is very odd that Alice could recite every single thing about her dream and then her sister then had a dream about Alice’s dream. This is a little ironic right? More like very ironic. But do we really know when the actual dream started? We know that in the beginning of the book it states that Alice was outside with her sister and she was feeling “sleepy and stupid” Stupid… why would she randomly be feeling stupid? I don’t usually think randomly, “Hey I feel stupid right now!” I’ve been told you usually dream about what you are thinking about right before you go to sleep or some people say it’s almost like seeing something in the future.
If Alice was feeling stupid before she went to sleep maybe this could have been the cause of her dream being so weird in my perspective. But how do we know when the actual dream started if it doesn’t necessarily say that.
On the “Associated Content” website they say that dreams represent a world of imagery in which our darkest fears, deepest secrets, and most passionate fantasies break out from the unconscious mind and only at this time become present to our own consciousness.
I think this is a cool way of describing a dream because it all makes sense when I think back to previous dreams I have had. Now I think I should probably answer Daniel’s question…
I think it was all a dream and Carroll is trying to confuse us, or maybe it’s simple but we’re trying to confuse ourselves with making it more complicated and think outside the box when it’s right in front of our eyes.
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I agree with your way of thinking Melissa. As I was reading your blog post I kept thinking exactly what you said in your very last little paragraph. Maybe we are thinking about it too hard. It was simply just a story and maybe Carroll chose to end the story as a dream because “and it was all just a dream” is the easiest way to end such a fantasy. The more we think about it, the more confused we get and the thinking is really just for nothing. No matter what conclusion anyone comes to, it is really just an opinion or thought. When it really comes down to it, Alice in Wonderland is a story created for pure entertainment purposes. We should not have to excessively think about it in too much depth.