Everyone dreams. While some dreams are relatively alike waking life, other dreams are particularly bizarre. The experiences of dreaming are perhaps best characterized by Sigmund Freud. Freud claims that dreams are a form of mental activity, different from waking thought that occurs during sleep. In contrast to real life, the content of a dream is an exaggerated reflection of the waking life (Hartmann, Ernest Louis. "Dreaming." Microsoft® Encarta® 2006). The story of Alice of Wonderland is the protagonist Alice's account of her dream in the realm of Wonderland. Thus, according to Freud's theory on dream interpretation, Alice's various encounters with the inhabitants of Wonderland are an embellished reproduction of her experiences with the people and culture in her waking life. Alice in Wonderland was written by Lewis Carroll in 1865 in Oxford, England during the Victorian era (the years between 1837 and 1901 when Queen Victoria's monarchy reigned in Great Britain). The...