Thread: examples of lucid dreaming in common literature

Originally Posted by DeeryTheDeer

Didn't the author of Alice In Wonderland say that his book was based on a lucid dream he had?

well I hate to spoil the party, but I found something on that

Originally Posted by wikipedia.org

Most of the book's adventures may have been based on and influenced by people, situations and buildings in Oxford and at Christ Church, e.g., the "Rabbit Hole," which symbolized the actual stairs in the back of the main hall in Christ Church. A carving of a griffon and rabbit, as seen in Ripon Cathedral, where Carroll's father was a canon, may have provided inspiration for the tale.

Since Carroll was a mathematician at Christ Church, it has been suggested[19][20] that there are many references and mathematical concepts in both this story and also in Through the Looking-Glass

Mathematician Keith Devlin asserted in the journal of The Mathematical Association of America that Dodgson wrote Alice in Wonderland in its final form as a scathing satire on new modern mathematics that were emerging in the mid-19th century.

The hidden math behind Alice in Wonderland

it doesn`t mention anywhere that it was a lucid dream per se

my impression is, that because he was a maths teacher in victorian England, if he would have mentioned that he could dream up such stuff, I think he would have ended up in a nuthouse

so he said that it was a figment of his imagination ... which is partially true in this case