From Southerly Busters by Ironbark, 1878.

"Innocent dreams" from Roughing It by Mark Twain.

"But what if life were all a dream?"  From The Heart of Princess Osra by Anthony Hope, 1896.

An illustration from Na úsvitě nové doby by Josef Jakub Touzimsky (1898).  Speaking of which, what exactly are a snowball's chances in hell?  See A Snowball's Chance in Hell.

An illustration from The Jorrocks Edition by Robert Smith Surtees (1892).  The caption reads: "All sorts of dreams."

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

"I've dreamed a lot.  I'm tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming.  No one tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget, and forgetting does not weigh on us, it is a dreamless sleep throughout which we remain awake.  In dreams I have achieved everything.  I've also woken up, but what does that matter?  How many countless Caesars I have been!" —Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

An illustration from The Day of Wonders by M. Sullivan (1879).  The caption reads: "The letters ... tired of lying still."

The eater of dreams from Kottō, Being Japanese Curios, with Sundry Cobwebs by Lafcadio Hearn (1910).

Writing and dreaming: an image and its gauzy double from Cornhill magazine, 1873.

See the explanation of our repository of ghostly images here.

An illustration from a 1904 issue of McClure's magazine.  The caption reads: "She sat there in her dream."

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:

This precursor to the great Charles Fort (complete with a shower of frogs) appears in Punch, 1867.

An illustration from a 1916 issue of Harper's magazine.  The caption reads: "Life itself is only a vision, a dream."

"What a beautiful dream!": an illustration from a 1902 issue of Harper's magazine.

An illustration from a 1900 issue of Scribner's magazine.

An illustration from a 1916 issue of Century Illustrated magazine.  The caption reads: "To-night her mind was too full of personal things to permit of strict attention to the text."

Dedicated to Teresa Burritt.