Reality is, more often than not, subjective. There is the universal reality in which all humans participate, however everyone has a different look on reality. As I see it, dreams are reflections of our subjective reality; they are the ideas our subconscious mind forms on the basis of our perspective in the state of being awake. They are often regarded as symbolic, and we trust them more than we would trust a story featuring supernatural events. Nightmares, for example, are reflections of our greatest fears. Personally, I believe, the premonitions we get from nightmares, or just dreams in general, also affect our actions while we are awake, because we feel our subconscious mind is trying to tell us something. So, are dreams in a way acts of magic, or just a different take on reality?
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Short stories typically revolve around one event that has an unexpected turn before the story ends, and Gaiman has a peculiar way delivering the sense of “reality” in his prose. Guiding us through the story, he writes it so it gives us hints that it is in no way realistic. After the revelation, at the turn of events, we still question the reality of the previously disproved fantastic events that seem almost real, yet have little to no basis in
Short stories typically revolve around one event that has an unexpected turn before the story ends, and Gaiman has a peculiar way delivering the sense of “reality” in his prose. Guiding us through the story, he writes it so it gives us hints that it is in no way realistic. After the revelation, at the turn of events, we still question the reality of the previously disproved fantastic events that seem almost real, yet have little to no basis in