after waking up

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Do you know why crows look like writing desks?

——"Alice in Wonderland"


Why does Alice enter the dream world every time she is frustrated in reality?
In her dreams, she "can do 6 impossible things a day."
Alice has a red queen and a white queen in her heart. The Red Queen goes her own way, she looks evil but straightforward and simple, but no one likes her; the White Queen is loved but inevitably appears hypocritical and contrived. But the former must only belong to the real self in the dream, while the latter is the person who can exist in reality. At the end of the first episode, the White Queen defeated the Red Queen, which wasn't the best ending.
"Hat" is a typical metaphor for the male phallus in psychoanalytic theory, and it is also Alice's masculine self-projection in the dream world. "Why can't women be captains?" Why women must be clerks and housewives, and why women can't control their own destiny. It is impossible for the Mad Hatter to fall in love with Alice, because the Mad Hatter is Alice herself.
An important theme in the second episode is family, and the Mad Hatter is in the same situation as Alice in real life, facing doubts about her father's beliefs. If the Mad Hatter dies, it is the death of this faith. In this episode, Alice tries to recreate "time" and change history. However, although the world in the dream is completely controlled by Alice, only time cannot. She cannot recreate history. History or time is the basis for the existence of everything, but only The truth can be seen in history.
Alice in the dream is almost omnipotent, because the dream itself is Alice's own, she is the master of the dream, and the defeat in the reality is compensated by the victory in the dream, which brings her the face of reality. new courage.
The Mad Hatter said, "Who can tell the difference between reality and dreams?" Dreams and reality have no boundaries. Zhuang Zhou didn't know whether he dreamed of butterflies or butterflies dreamed of himself.
Some people say that Zhou Xingchi's "Journey to the West" is just a long dream of Sun Wukong in the Water Curtain Cave. In reality, Sun Wukong is the omnipotent Monkey King, but he can no longer have the slightest mortal affection, and he is designed to be forced or voluntary to learn from the heavy responsibilities. In the dream, he just wanted to be an ordinary bandit and just want to talk about a simple love. However, he could not stay in the dream forever. A truly brave person always knows how to face who he is when he wakes up.

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Alice Through the Looking Glass quotes

  • Cheshire Cat: [from trailer]

    Cheshire Cat: When the day becomes the night and the sky becomes the sea, When the clock strikes heavy and there's no time for tea. And in our darkest hour, before my final rhyme, she will come back home to Wonderland and turn back the hands of time.

  • Blue Caterpillar: [from trailer] You've been gone too long, Alice. There are matters which might benefit from your attention. Friends cannot be neglected. Hurry.