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I'm new to AskHistorians so please do not withhold criticism concerning the content of the response. I Have a masters in Comparative Litterature and may be able to shed some light on this matter. Some examples from antiquity have been given that certainly prefigures the idea of the idiosyncratic dream.The most notable example of 'false reality' from antiquity is, of course, Plato's parabel of the Cave in the tenth book of 'Government'. However, when analyzing antique or rennaisance sources it is important to consider that dreams in this period of time were not viewed as figments of imagination produced by the individual, sleeping, fictitious mind. Rather these dreams are, although false, the product or message of some metaphysical creature able to endow these visions on the individual. Consider 'Ceyx & Alcyone' from Ovids Metamorphoses. Here Morpheus is portrayed as the shapeshifting god of dreams who can enter the nightly visions of the living in order to convey them a message. Dreams in this sense do not differ from waking reality in antiquity which may also be subject to the whims of gods. In Plautus' Amphitryon - Jupiter and Mercury play a trick on a greek king and his servant driving him quite mad by assuming the form of him and his servant. The concept of the 'false dream', meaning the idiosyncratic production of false reality within the private sphere of the individual mind, most likely originates in the Spanish Golden Age (El sieglo de oro) where the Baroque style reached its' literary pinnacle. /u/lucky_wood has already mentioned Calderon's La Vida es un Sueno. We may also look at the most famous literary work of this period to gain perspective - Cervantes' Don Quijote. The plot of Don Quijote is based around a private misconception of the world. Quijote is the first character in world history to live within a worldview of his own making: After having read innumerous tales of brave knights from medieval epics (a prevalent genre in the late middle ages. I sadly don't know the technical english term for these 'romans') Quijote sets about creating himself in the image of his literary heroes with ridicoulous results. Throughout the 'novel' the imaginary, heroic reality of Don Quijote is juxtaposed with ordinary consensual reality. Hilarity ensues. In The Gutenberg Galaxy Marshall McLuhan contrasts the feudal world view of Quijote with the modern world of his surroundings. He cites Lowenthal: "Cervantes' irony lies in the fact that while overtly his hero battles against the new (the early manifestations of middle-class life) in the name of the old (the feudal system), actually he attempts to sanction a new principle . This principle consists, basically, in the autonomy of individual thinking and feeling. The dynamics of society have come to demand a continuous and active transformation of reality; the world must be perpetually constructed anew. Don Quixote recreates his world even though he does so in a phantastic and solipsistic fashion. The honor for which he enters the lists is the product of his thinking, not of socially established and accepted values." (p.214) McLuhan dedicated The Gutenberg Galaxy and much of his authorship to demonstrating how the creation of a 'private' world view presupposes the extreme specialisation of the printed word. In other words the modern notion of the dream as it is used in 'it was all a dream' plot device, is not possible until typography brings Western man into a realm of private perspective and reasoning. ('Reading' in antiquity, the middle ages and most of the rennaisance meant 'reading aloud') So to answer the question: 'It was all a dream' originated in the Spanish Baroque around 1600 A.D. It certainly wasn't considered cheesy, but as you may know, Classicism which replaced the Baroque didn't have very kind words for the voluptous obscurity of the Baroque Style. Romanticism however engaged itself in many of the same themes. So basically theres a dialectic process of taste where certain periods tend to disregard themes of dreams and fantasy while other periods hold these themes in high esteem. English isn't my first language so i apologize for faulty spelling and other errors. I am more than willing to elaborate if necessary. Where does the saying it was all a dream come from?So to answer the question: 'It was all a dream' originated in the Spanish Baroque around 1600 A.D. It certainly wasn't considered cheesy, but as you may know, Classicism which replaced the Baroque didn't have very kind words for the voluptous obscurity of the Baroque Style.
What is the meaning of it was all a dream?There is a particular trope that became quite infamous across many media: the "it was just a dream" revelation, where, usually at the end of a important story arc, everything turns back to the start since nothing actually happened in the real world and the story narrated in said arc is thus erased.
Who wrote all a dream biggie?Justin Tinsley
Who wrote all a dream?Justin Tinsley has written a classic, one that unlike the whodunit books that have congregated around the Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac, actually focuses on the man behind the mic, his talent and compelling life, and not just on his tragic, infamous death.”
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