Time Out of Mind is more thoroughly embedded in dreams than any other Dylan work. The outtakes are most explicit in acknowledging the dream framework. “Dreamin’ of You” derives entirely from the singer's dreams, and the other outtakes all refer directly to dreaming or to the restless borderland between waking and sleep. In “Marchin’ to the City” the singer reflects, “I was hopin’ we could dream life's pleasant dreams.” In “Red River Shore” he laments, “Well the dream dried up a long time ago / Don't know where it is anymore.” And in the radically different alternate take of “Can't Wait” he asks, “Do you ever lay awake at night, your face turned toward the wall / Drownin’ in your thoughtlessness and cut off from it all?” Dylan is a bit cagier in the songs released on the album. There are certain unequivocal dream references, as in “Tryin’ to Get to Heaven” where the singer vows, “Gonna sleep down in the parlor and relive my dreams / I’ll close my eyes and I wonder / If everything is as hollow as it seems.” In “Highlands” the singer reports, “Windows were shakin’ all night in my dreams.” And “Make You Feel My Love” contends, “I could make you happy, make your dreams come true.” Other allusions only imply dreaming without announcing it specifically. In “Love Sick” the singer claims, “I spoke like a child, you destroyed me with a smile / While I was sleeping.” In “Million Miles” he seemingly refers to dreams in declaring, “Well, there's voices in the night trying to be heard / I’m sitting here listening to every mind-polluting word.” Elsewhere, however, he complains of insomnia, as in “Not Dark Yet”: “Shadows are falling and I’ve been here all day / It's too hot to sleep, time is running away.” And at one point in “Million Miles” he admits to sleeping but denies dreaming: “I’m drifting in and out of dreamless sleep / Throwing all my memories in a ditch so deep.” [But doesn't that ditch-work sound just like dream-work?