From A Book of Symbols for Camp Fire Girls by Charlotte Gulick, 1915.

From The Initiates of the Flame by Manly P. Hall, 1922.

From The Path To Rome by Hilaire Belloc.

From The Great and Good, 1904.

From Rosicrvcian Symbology by George Winslow Plummer, 1916.

May marmots not invade your dreams tonight.  From The Gates of the Future Thrown Open by Carlotta de Barsy, 1899.

From A Book of Symbols for Camp Fire Girls by Charlotte Gulick, 1915.

From Rosicrvcian Symbology by George Winslow Plummer, 1916.

From the University of Missouri at Kansas City's 1960 yearbook.

Is Lewis Carroll's "The Walrus and the Carpenter" a nightmare?  We consulted an old book of dream symbolism, The Gates of the Future Thrown Open by Carlotta de Barsy (1899) to see what the imagery of its most famous passage means.

Was Alice's Adventurs in Wonderland a nightmare?  We consulted an old book of dream symbolism, The Gates of the Future Thrown Open by Carlotta de Barsy, 1899:

Falling down the rabbit hole is inauspicious:

The mad tea party is inauspicious:

The Cheshire Cat is inauspicious:

The Mad Hatter is inauspicious:

The Queen of Hearts and other playing cards are inauspicious:

The caterpillar is inauspicious:

The chess pieces are inauspicious:

Humpty Dumpty (because he breaks) is inauspicious:

The dormouse is inauspicious:

There are two auspicious elements, however:

The White Rabbit is auspicious:

The roses painted red are auspicious:

So, with 9 of 11 symbols forewarning serious troubles, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is decidedly a nightmare.

From A Book of Symbols for Camp Fire Girls by Charlotte Gulick, 1915.

We came for the constructive symbology and stayed for the "certain other things."  From Rosicrvcian Symbology by George Winslow Plummer, 1916.

From the University of Southern California's 1910 yearbook.  Compare to this more elaborate stage set with signage.

From Rosicrvcian Symbology by George Winslow Plummer, 1916.

Interesting that "dragon" and "dragoon" are linked in terms of dream symbolism.  From The Gates of the Future Thrown Open by Carlotta de Barsy, 1899.

The hyena is traditionally famed for being able to change its sex, and the stone in its eye gives humans the gift of prophecy.  The offspring of a dog and a cat, it never rode on Noah's ark but rather came into being after the Deluge.  From Symbolism Of Animals and Birds Represented in English Architecture by Arthur Collins, 1931.

May you not see yourself in "the bad place" when you fall asleep tonight.  From The Gates of the Future Thrown Open by Carlotta de Barsy, 1899.

May no eyebrows haunt your dreams tonight.  From The Gates of the Future Thrown Open by Carlotta de Barsy, 1899.

When was the last time you dreamed about caricatures?  From The Gates of the Future Thrown Open by Carlotta de Barsy, 1899.