Madness

The Cheshire cat suggests that everything Alice experiences in Wonderland is a dream or the result of madness. Carroll, in a diary entry, defined "insanity as an inability to distinguish which is the waking and which is the sleeping life." Besides the obvious absurdities in imagery, what other aspects of these books mimic a dream state?

One goes from one experience to another without any reason why and nothing seems to make any sense. Characters, events, and conversations just seem to be created as one goes along. Nothing seems to tie together.
-Bookworm

The baby turning into a pig, the cat appearing out of nowhere, the tears, the animals talking, growing and shrinking, really all of it.
-Annegirl

That it seems meaningless and scattered, but when you really sit and think about it, you can figure out little snippets that are symbolic of something. I'm not sure what though! I wasn't crazy about this book. I thought it was ok, but it wasn't an addictive page-turner for sure. If I would've immersed myself in it from a child's perspective, I might have enjoyed it more.
-Sanya the Duck