The first example of how the story relates to dreams is in the beginning as Alice finds herself falling down the rabbit hole. People do have the experience of being able to fly in a dream. This is very similar to Alice falling down the rabbit hole. She keeps falling and falling, much like she is flying. "Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end? 'I wonder how many miles I've fallen by this time?' She said aloud," (Carroll 20). Alice falls and falls to a point where she cannot even tell how long she has been falling. In reality, falling for long periods of time, such as skydiving, is as close as one can come to true, unaided flight, just like Alice's fall down the rabbit hole

People who use hallucinogenic drugs have reported falling, as though they could fly, but few have ever actually felt that the

These examples from the text support the idea that the novel is based upon dreamlike experiences. The fact that, throughout the novel and in many different forms, things appear and disappear shows a connection to dreams. In dreams things are always appearing and disappearing, just like the bottle on the table and the Cheshire-Cat. These appearances and disappearances are unique to dreams and not to drug use. Drug users will often see things that are not actually there, but these are not things with which they can physically interact. However; in dreams, and in Alice, the things that appear and disappear are things that are of actual substance and can be used and interacted with. This argument shows that the novel more closely resembles a dream and not an experience with hallucinogenic drugs.

Another example of things appearing and disappearing is the Cheshire cat which continually appears and disappears throughout the novel. "If one only knew the right way to change them¾' when she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire-Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off . . . As she said this, she looked up, and there was the Cat again, sitting on a branch of a tree . . .

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