From Remarkable Apparitions and Ghost Stories, or Authentic Histories of Communications (Real or Imaginary) with the Unseen World by Clarence Day, 1848.

From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1878.

From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1875.

From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1874.

From Hunter College's Wistarion yearbook, 1913

From an 1865 issue of Fun magazine.

"The Eerie Room," from Hunter College's Wistarion yearbook, 1934.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

From Die Muskete, 1912.

From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1876.

From Die Muskete, 1917.

"May your Thanksgiving never end in dreams like these!"

"My thoughts to you will ever tend till you find a sausage with just one end."  From 1907.

"Indigestion and nightmare.  Without sea foam."  Circa 1890.

From Die Muskete, 1911.

Dreams are particles, not waves.  We first noticed this passage thanks to the row of asterisks, and (according to the principles we followed in our book Annotated Ellipses: Revealing A Hidden Dot-To-Dot Game Within A Novelist's Eccentric Punctuation), we were able to decode the asterisks as dream sparks.  From "The Missing Ring" in The Guernsey Magazine, 1875.

A nightmare involving Abraham Lincoln.  From Fun magazine, 1864.

From Charley Wag, the New Jack Sheppard, 1861.