Deeper into Dreaming  rachelr's picture  Hey now, hey now  this
is what dreams are  made of                   Thank you!...for
giving your essay the shape and form its argument requires:
beginning, in other words, w/ a (very evocative!) image, a song,
and an askew poem (that you wrote?) ...  such a format
effectively invites your reader into a dream space, makes her
more willing to follow you wherever you'd like to go...  What
are dreams? Do our waking dreams, our aspirations, differ from
the stories and visions that we tell ourselves as we sleep? How
are dreams incorporated into our realities?  In Alice’s
Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, one
driving point of the novel is the dream; be it waking or
sleeping, the cyclical nature of Alice’s parallel reality draws
into question what Carroll wants his readers to glean from his
tale. Whether his goal is to parody the quest, education,
dreams, or reality, his complex world beyond that of the norms
of expected daily life have and will continue