"A voyage with the old dream-king," from St. Nicholas magazine, 1903.

From The Works of Charles Dickens, Household Edition.

From Lehigh University's Epitome yearbook, 1885.

Here's a precursor to the film Strange Days, from an 1892 ad.

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:

"Mr. Fogg dreams," from Dicks' English Library of Standard Works, 1884.

"One of the offices of man is to close his eyes and hold them tight shut to see if the dream that was interrupted when the night was young will continue through the dead hours." —Machado de Assis, Dom Casmurro

Here's "the grave of dreams" from The Devil's Acres, illustrated by Kenneth M. Skeaping, 1891.

Here's a precursor to advice columnist Dear Abby, from The Boy-God by Edward Melville Lynch, 1892.

"She was not reading," from In Deacon's Orders and Other Tales by Walter Besant, 1895.  (And 26 years later, she's still not reading in St. Nicholas magazine, 1921.)

"Up the mountain sides of dreams," from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson and illustrated by C. Robinson, 1896.

From Favourite English Poems and Poets, 1870.

From The Middle Kingdom: A Survey of the Chinese Empire and Its Inhabitants by Samuel Wells Williams, 1883.

"I dreamed a night or two ago."  (The awkward cropping at the top of the image is courtesy of the British Library.)  From Vagrant Verses by George Staunton Brodie and illustrated by Wallis Mackay, 1876.

Dreaming in (Venn) circles, from My Little Girl by Walter Besant, 1873.

From Midsummer Eve by S. C. Gall, 1870.

"The Sisters": an illustration from Arthur's Home Magazine (1865).

"My dream," from Alter Ejusdem by James Archibald Sidey, 1877.

An illustration from The Return of Peter Grimm, Novelised From the Play by David Belasco (1912).  The caption reads: "'Sleep well,' said Peter Grimm.  'I wish you the very pleasantest of dreams a boy could have in this world.'"