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Quote: " 'Old woman, what is this freedom you love so well?'  I asked around a corner of my mind.  She looked surprised, then thoughtful, then baffled, 'I done forgot, son.  It's all mixed up.  First I think it's one thing, then I think it's another' " (Ellison 11).

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Trueblood's dream pertains to an encounter that he has with a white woman and of how he reacts to this.  Trueblood is shown to be afraid of white people in general however this is not the real point the author is trying to make.  In this case, the author is trying to merely gauge the reactions from Mr. Norton which shows how they react differently to matters that are of importance. While Trueblood accepts his own "status" within society while Mr. Norton is unable to comprehend why he feels this way.

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This quote conveys the idea of how white people have tried to exert the idea of white supremacy and inferiority to African Americans. The narrator finally realizes that instead of running away from the oppression and trying to gain the recognition of white people, he decides to accept his own identity that to these white people, he is invisible. Also, this further reveals that white people have tried to leave a mark on history and brand themselves as the supreme race. However, the narrator says that they are just going to get washed away and actually never have the power to leave a true mark on history.

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This quote further reveals how people are able to mask their deceits and wicked ways. In this case, white people are constantly masking their deceitful ways, giving the narrator an illusion that he can earn their respect and trust by working hard and succeeding. This basically foreshadows the entire book, as the narrator is under a veil of success and recognition, but later realizes that he was being used and white people actually don't care about him as an individual, hence making him an invisible man.

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Through the use of this quote, the author is conveying the idea that black people within this society are forgetting what they are supposed to strive for.  In this "dream" sequence with the narrator, it is discovered that while the old woman had murdered her white husband to obtain freedom for herself and her family, she ultimately forgets her reason for doing so and is discovered to have lost her own reasons for doing so.

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The motif of dreams within Invisible Man is used in order to display the faults within society by showing how people are perceiving their world around them.

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Quote: " 'But your sun...' 'Yes?' 'And your moon...' 'He's crazy!' 'Your world...' 'I knew he was a mystic idealist!' Tobitt said. 'Still,' I said, 'there's your universe, and that drip-drop upon the water you hear is all the history you've made, all you're going to make. Now laugh ,you scientists. Let's hear you laugh!' " (Ellison 570)

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Quote: " 'To whom It May Concern, ' I intoned.  'Keep This Nigger-Boy Running.'...  (It was a dream I was to remember and dream again for many years after.  But at that time I had no insight into its meaning.  First I had to attend college.)"  (Ellison 33).

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Quote: " ' I wants to run, but the only door I see is the one in the clock she's standin in - and anyway I can't move and this here clock is keepin up a heapa racket.... I git loose away from the woman now and I'm runnin' for the clock... ' " (Ellison 47 -pdf versions)

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Quote: " 'Old woman, what is this freedom you love so well?'  I asked around a corner of my mind.  She looked surprised, then thoughtful, then baffled, 'I done forgot, son.  It's all mixed up.  First I think it's one thing, then I think it's another' " (Ellison 11).