Dreams are on Their Way Trivia Quiz

Answer: Brave New World

H. P. Lovecraft's "Dream Cycle" features the world of--you guessed it--Dreamland. In "The Box of Delights" by John Masefield, the events of the story are revealed to have been a dream when the main character awakes at the end of the book. "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll is also written in the way that dreams often flow, with unexplained events. "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley is not, sadly, a dream; the story takes place in what is commonly known as a dystopian world.

Answer: Piers Plowman

"Piers Plowman", "A Vision of Piers Plowman", or "Will's Vision of Piers Plowman" are all common titles for this work, which is subtitled "A Vision of a People's Christ". In the poem, a man named Will falls asleep and dreams of Piers Plowman, a Medieval image of Christ. There are many "steps" or parts to the poem, known as "Passus", during which Will witnesses different events.

There exist three different versions of the manuscript, of varying lengths. William Langland wrote the poem between 1370-1386, and meant to show the proper Christian life in contrast to what he was seeing around him in Medieval society.

Answer: Singin' in the Rain

"Singin' in the Rain" (1952) is a musical about the decline of silent movies and beginning of talking pictures. During the film, the character Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) has a dream sequence that takes him through a strange city, leading him to a cigarette-smoking flapper (Cyd Charisse) with whom he dances. Gene Kelly, who choreographed his own dances, featured dream sequences in many of his films, including in "On the Town".

Answer: Dreamcatchers

Dreamcatchers probably originated with an Ojibwe legend where spiders' webs were thought to be able to catch bad air or nightmares and prevent them from harming people. They continue to be hung over babies' cradles to help them have good dreams. They saw a boom in popular culture beginning in the 1960s, and still remain popular in craft fairs.

Answer: I Have a Dream

"I Have a Dream" was a hit for ABBA in December of 1979, reaching number one in many European countries and certified as a gold record in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. "The Impossible Dream" is a song from the musical "The Man From La Mancha", while "I've Got a Dream" is from the Disney film "Tangled". "These Dreams" was a hit song for the rock group Heart.

"I Have a Dream" is also the name of the speech given by Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1963. A crowd of more than 250,000 gathered to hear this speech about civil rights.

Answer: The Wizard of Oz

In "The Wizard of Oz", after Dorothy, played by Judy Garland, completes her quest in Oz, she suddenly wakes up to find that she has been recovering from an accident, and must have dreamed the whole thing. The farmhands who work where she lives conveniently resemble her friends in Oz, and it must have been an overactive imagination that invented Oz. Or was it? The three other films mentioned are also classic films that feature dreams.

Answer: Debbie Gibson

"Only in My Dreams" was written by Gibson in 1984, when she was only 14. She was signed to a record company on the basis of that song, which she released in late 1986. The music video is a dream sequence, in which she attempts to attract the man of her dreams. Debbie Gibson became the youngest person ever to write, produce, and sing a song that hit the US Billboard Hot 100.

Answer: Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein discovered the principle of relativity after a vivid dream, showing that even the smartest of us need a helping hand sometimes! Isaac Newton discovered the principle of gravity, among other brilliant theories, while Marie Curie's specialty was chemistry. Tycho Brahe was a celebrated astronomer of the late sixteenth century.

Answer: Morpheus

Although not universal in the Greek world, Morpheus often personified dreams. He could be sent by the gods to appear in mortal dreams, usually to deliver a message. He appears in Ovid's epic poem "Metamorphoses". In some sources, he is the son of the goddess of night, Nyx, and a land of dreams is located near the resting place of the dead, the Asphodel Meadows.

Answer: Sandman

Scandinavian folklore depicts him as a benevolent creature who gives good dreams by putting sleep dust in people's eyes. The Sandman appeared this way in a story by Hans Christian Anderson, "Ole Lukoje". However, he could also be a frightening character: the 1816 story "Der Sandmann" by E. T. A. Hoffmann, children who did not sleep and thus had their eyes fall out, had their eyes collected by the Sandman and fed to his children.

The Sandman has appeared in a lot of popular culture, such as the Chordettes' hit song "Mr. Sandman".