Hawthorne & Poe On Dreams

Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" uses the idea of dreaming to make us think about what's real by describing how someone's attitude and behavior can change so quickly because dreams that we have make us realize and truly think about what can be real and what can't be. In "Young Goodman Brown" the protagonist, Goodman Brown, starts off the story with being an innocent and humble man with no obvious problems with anyone, yet he ends off the story with a doubtful mind and truly realizes that not everything he sees is real, anyone can be hiding anything from everyone else- and this all happened because a walk (or was it really?) that he took through a suspicious forest. Goodman Brown's demeanor changed all because of a dream, dreams make us think about what is real... and what isn't. Poe's "Dream Within A Dream" tells how the author refers to everything he has experienced has been a dream, everything from a bittersweet departure to standing near the ocean and reflecting on oneself is all a dream. Poe brings up the phrase "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream," I suppose this refers to the idea that everything we have experienced in our lives isn't what it seems, what is real and what isn't? Both authors contribute their ways of delivering the purpose that not everything is what it seems.