A recurring theme that supports the narrative has already been discussed in relation to the young woman and her dream son: the mystique that the story (and its author) attributes to children. In the words of the child psychiatrist, "a magical reality ... surrounds the children, ensuring their safety." To explore the potential implications of this belief as it could relate to the young woman's dream child, it seems fitting to draw from William Wordsworth's grand "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" (1807). Although Godwin does not directly reference this poem, and despite her literary background, she may not have even considered it while writing "Dream Children," it is strangely appropriate to view the following passage as somewhat representative of the lost little boy:

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The soul that rises with us, our life's star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy!