In the beginning five minutes of Disney’s “Alice in Wonderland,” the opening scene displays Alice, the main character, falling asleep to the boring lecture of her teacher. In an instant, the setting changes completely and Alice is in a mysterious “Wonderland” where she has no real purpose. The story proceeds to take on a plot basically depicting Alice in a Wonderland (i.e. her “dream-world”) from which she wants to escape. The opening scene of “Alice in Wonderland” is an obvious representation of the dream-world humans fall in during sleep. Usually consisting of story-like sequences of images, sensations, and perceptions that occur during REM sleep, dreaming is an altered state of consci
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