Thread: Ever Read the Poem "A Dream within a Dream" by Edgar Allen Poe?

Ok so I can't believe I am making a post about poetry because I am a mathy sciency kind of guy when it comes to school. Nevertheless, in American Lit we were assigned to read "A Dream within a Dream". Naturally, since it pertained to dreaming, this aroused my curiosity so I made sure to read it extra carefully.

Spoiler for A Dream within a Dream:

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand-
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

Anyways, although I am definitely not a critic by any means, I found it very interesting how he talked about life was simply a 'dream within a dream'. Not that I really believe it, but I have often wondered this myself. I mean, what if we really were just in a dream right now, and everyone that replies to this was just a figure of my imagination??? -Strange, isn't it? (hehe who gets that joke?)

Like I said, I am by no means a poetry critic or anything but this particular one really got me thinking. Not that I believe it but it is still a very interesting concept.

Thoughts anyone?