The South By Jorge Luis Borges

Dreams and reality are two domains that writers explore when they create stories. Defining dreams and reality is a concern of philosophical matter, because people need to understand the perception of dreams, reality and how they coexist.
In “The South” by Jorge Luis Borges, it’s about exploring drams to determine whether they are reality or not. When the story begins the main character is overwhelmed with joy of the newly acquired copy of “The Thousand and one nights” by Weil's. That’s where it all started to go down hill. Dahlman is in a dream like state, his head opened by a window, lying down on the floor with his nose in a book.
While Dahlmann was in the hospital he was in a daydream, however this daydream he would never wake up from.

however he is dreaming or hallucinating that he is going back in time. A hallucinatory experience occurs while one sleeps. (Researchers at the University of Chicago, physiological dream research). All this time that Dahlmann has been “awake” and out of the hospital is just a figment of his imagination. In Dream, Imagination and Reality in Literature by Professor Martin Prochazka it talks about how dreaming and imagination connects with people going into “another world”. Researchers found that people usually had a burst of rapid eye movements while they dreamed. Whenever people are deprived of sleep, it is harder for them not to have bad dreams. They will often have a blank expression on there face or glossy eyes. The strange part of daydreaming is that you are more likely to remember what you dreamt about. You could also be aware that you are dreaming and somewhat control what happens while you dream. Dahlmann was subconsciously aware that he was still in the hospital. Some of the last people he had seen were the doctors that were working on

While you dream it’s hard to recognize someone you just meet. “Dahlmann noted with satisfaction the kerchief, the thick pancho, the long chiripa and the colt boots, and told himself, as he recalled futile discussions with people from, the Northern countries or from province of Entre Rios, that gauchos like this no longer existed outside of the south” (Borges,3). This section helps readers confirm that Dahlmann is in a state of mine that allows him to believe that he is not only going to the south but also going back in time. Not one person would want to die in a useless or pathetic way, so Dahlmann created a manlier way to die. By dreaming that he was in the old south fighting with a gacho. Before he even got into the fight with the gaucho dahlman opened the book one more time in order to suppress reality. Shortly after opening the book he came to the conclusion that he was not in reality, He was indeed