Often, before I learned, did I wonder whence came the multitudes of pictures that thronged my
dreams; for they were pictures the like of which I had never seen in real wake-a-day life.
Chaka the king is now a Doctor of
Dreams, and to clear away such a
dream as this he has a purging medicine."
THE adventure of the day mightily tor- mented Tom's
dreams that night.
The staircase was as wooden and solid as need be, and Affery went straight down it without any of those deviations peculiar to
dreams. She did not skim over it, but walked down it, and guided herself by the banisters on account of her candle having died out.
She could do good, if not noble, work as a teacher; and the success her little sketches were beginning to meet with in certain editorial sanctums augured well for her budding literary
dreams. But -- but -- Anne picked up her green dress and sighed again.
"I can't
dream now, Captain Jim--I'm done with
dreams."
The soul of his love had gone from the room and from the picture and from his
dreams. When he tried to think of the Alice he loved he saw, not the shadowy spirit occupant of the west gable, but the young girl who had stood under the pine, beautiful with the beauty of moonlight, of starshine on still water, of white, wind-swayed flowers growing in silent, shadowy places.
I now began to reason that my situation was in the last degree serious,
dream or no
dream; for I knew by past experience of the lifelike intensity of
dreams, that to be burned to death, even in a
dream, would be very far from being a jest, and was a thing to be avoided, by any means, fair or foul, that I could contrive.
such a nice
dream! And you've been along with me, Kitty--all through the Looking-Glass world.
And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow -- You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a
dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone?
But now White Logic willy-nilly wakes them for me, for White Logic, most valiant, is unafraid of all the monsters of the earthly
dream.
Hear, I pray you, the
dream that I
dreamed, my friends, and help me to divine its meaning!