Pippin's dream is the next one presented to us.  We're told that he was "dreaming pleasantly," but then he moves into this false reality dream in which he thinks he wakes and gets the feeling that the house is not a house but the willow, and he is again trapped inside it.  The he wakes, rememberes Tom and Goldberry's advice/blessing, and goes back to sleep.

What, first off, do you think is the significance of dreams in which you think you are awake but are not?  Having had those from time to time, I always find them extremely unsettling and feel like they must have some psychological meaning, as most dream symbols are asserted to have.  Web searches on dream analysis have yielded nothing — your thoughts, and their application to Pippin's dream?

Second, this dream is clearly very different from Frodo's, and yet, as we shall see, similar in theme to Merry's.  Why is Pippin dreaming that Bombadil's house is really the inside of the Willow?  Is it something about the house or the host, or just his continued trauma over the experience of hearing "that horribe dry creaking voice laughing at him"?

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