From The Ingoldsby Legends by Thomas Ingoldsby and illustrated by George Cruikshank, 1866

From Southerly Busters by Ironbark, 1878.

An illustration from Jack in the Box by Robert Ellice Mack (1888).

An illustration from The Marvellous Adventures of Sir John Maundevile (1895).  The caption reads: "There fled out an head right hideous."

An illustration from Shafts from an Eastern Quiver (1894).  The caption reads: "It again emerged."

An illustration from a 1900 issue of The Lady's Realm magazine.  The caption reads: "It was like a bad dream."

An illustration from William Makepeace Thackeray in Thackerayana (1898).

"Funny that my dreams can so powerfully influence my waking life, while my waking life has so little influence over my dreams." —Jeff Hawkins

[Previously on this very subject.]

Meanwhile:

"The Unknown Bull": an illustration from an 1862 issue of Punch magazine.

An illustration from a 1906 issue of Puck magazine.  Speaking of which, one of the many things we admire about our British brethren is that they've long been consciously aware that they've slipped down the rabbit hole.  So very few nations realize they're in Wonderland.

An illustration from an 1855 issue of Punch magazine.

The "greenhouse effect" was coined in 1992, but the carbon devil was causing nightmares all the way back in 1918, in the Illustrated World.

"I had been dreaming a crowded dream full of unfamiliar characters—people I hadn't had time, or whom it hadn't seemed necessary, to name or even make distinct from one another.  It was a mob, practically, but its intent was unclear.  For what purpose had they congregated?" —Rebecca Wolff, The Beginners (2011)

This depiction of a crowded dream is from Punch, 1893.

An illustration from an 1893 issue of Punch magazine.

An illustration from a 1903 issue of Punch magazine.

An illustration from an 1873 issue of Punch magazine.  The caption reads: "Currant Jelly."