My take on Alice in wonderland.

I am reading Alice in wonderland. I can not remember reading it as a child.  I have seen the Disney movie, of course, and have read the condensed books.  I think that I should have read this book when I was younger.  It is so bizarre that I just can't seem to wrap my mind around it.   It tells the story of Alice, a young girl who follows the White Rabbit down a rabbit hole. At the bottom, she finds herself in a room with a tiny door and a bottle labeled "drink me." She grows and shrinks depending on what she eats and drinks, and as a small version of herself, finds herself swimming in a pool of tears (her own tears). Swimming to shore, Alice and some other creatures decide that "the best thing to get us dry would be a Caucus-race". Alice continues to chase the White Rabbit and the White Rabbit sends her into his house for his fan and gloves. Once in the house, Alice gets into more trouble with an unlabeled bottle, quickly growing too big to move. The White Rabbit and Bill the Lizard try to get her out, and Alice only escapes by eating some small cakes. She runs into the woods and meets a hookah-smoking Caterpillar, who gives her some advice on ways to grow bigger and smaller. Next, she stops at the house of the Duchess with a pig for a baby; the pig escapes, and Alice asks the Cheshire Cat for help. Directed on to the March Hare's house, Alice takes part in the Mad Tea Party.  This is the most famous scene in the book. Alice moves on to the Queen's croquet ground, where she encounters the Queen of Hearts and tries to play croquet with a flamingo and a hedgehog. Next, Alice encounters a Mock Turtle and a Gryphon, who tell her the story of the lobster quadrille. The book closes with a trial on the case of the stolen tarts, as the Queen accuses the Knave of Hearts. Alice is accused also, and she scatters the attacking cards, only to find herself awake on the river bank where the book began.

The best part is Alice herself.  She is a fearless and inquisitive child, observant and forthright, scared at times but more often levelheaded in the face of a world which has, along with all the adults in it, been turned upside down. She remains polite while inundated with the greatest pile of nonsense ever conceived, and she wins through in the end by keeping her head. Not just in the sense of the Queen of Hearts' threat -- off with her head. To my mind, she's one of the strongest heroines in literature, a character fully deserving of her fame.  Thank goodness it has a strong character as the book has no plot.

I think you have to keep reminding yourself not to read anything into the situations that Alice gets into.  The situations were written just to entertain three little girls and feed their imaginations.
Maybe Lewis Carroll did used drugs to produce the story.   So be it.  It is fantasy.