Dreams have spatial characteristics and temporal ones – dream space and dream time. The constructions of dream space, as we have seen in the previous chapter, differ quite substantially from text to text, from historical context to historical context. At the same time, we see many similarities between the constructions of dream spaces (or dream-like spaces) in the works of Carroll, Virgil, Schulz, Blake and Hitchcock. Likewise, descriptions or constructions of temporal aspects of dreaming have similarities and differences depending on the formal logic of a text or its location in a specific context, a historical time and place.

In the following unit we will investigate temporal aspects of dreaming in the following sources: Salvador Dali, Selected Works, Bruno Schulz, “Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass", Virgil, The Aeneid, Lewis Carroll, “The Mad Tea Party” from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, “The Journey to the Forest of Cedar,” from The Epic of Gilgamesh.

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