ï ½ Well, its no use your talking about waking him, ï ½ said Tweedledum, ï ½when youï ½re only one of the things in his dream. You know very well youï ½re not real.ï ½ ï ½I am real!ï ½ said Alice, & began to cry. ï ½ You wonï ½t make yourself a bit realer by crying, ï ½ Tweedledee remarked: ï ½thereï ½s nothing to cry about.ï ½ - Chapter IV, Tweedledum & Tweedledee The second of Aliceï ½s adventures sees her walking through a mirror to a strange world on the other side. Upon her arrival, she is met by talking chess pieces & bumps into nursery rhyme characters Tweedledum & Tweedledee. After being taken on a whirlwind journey through time & space, Alice wakes from a dream where she has become queen of the chessboard. Only then does she think that perhaps it was all imagined ï ½