Furthermore, she continues with her loose speculations by  discussing an idea out of a textbook written by Thomas C. Upham, one of Hawthorne’s professors, that had been published two years after Hawthorne had graduated.
She cites a description of dreams from the book, which states, “Dreams can become wild and incoherent because they are not corrected by perceptions of reality or disciplined by the will….”  (Gollin/p.26).  If perchance Hawthorne had read this book, it does not sound like a description of a man whose will urges him to go against his entire world by breaking the unanimous consent into evil with a minority shout of, “Faith!…look up to heaven, and resist the wicked one.”  (Hawthorne/p.945).  Furthermore, if one is to consider the dream-vision analysis, then one must find an indication that points to Brown falling asleep.