Hawthorne & Poe on Dreams

In the beginning of  "Young Goodman Brown," the protagonist has a loving and cheerful demeanor. However, due to a dream he experiences in the eerie forest, he envisioned a vivid dream that convinced him that the people who he had trusted were pure evil and even considered them to be the devil in the flesh. After returning home he distanced himself from everyone, even from his loving wife whom he'd cherished dearly. Dreams allow us to process what is real and what is not. Perhaps these dreams we experience are what we've dealt with throughout the day (possibly instances in our lifetime) or our subconsciousness. As for Edgar Allan Poe's poem "A Dream Within a Dream", the author describes his life to be nothing but a dream. He repeats the phrase, "Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream." There seems to be a melancholy tone in Poe's poem because it refers to life being an illusion. A similarity between both pieces is the idea of departing. In both pieces the departure is full of sadness not knowing what may happen next. Another similarity between these two pieces is that both portray the idea of not everything we see, is what they seem to be.