In the book Cold Mountain, a man named Inman got wounded and as he was dying, he was in Ada’s arms, and he dreamed about a very strange place. This place had all of the seasons in one, and there were dancing cows. Nobody really knows why he dreamed this but the author.

I’ll tell you why I think he dreamed of this particular situation. I don’t know what people’s minds go through when they are dying, but this is what I think went through Inman’s mind. 

Inman was in love with Ada and never had his dream-life with her, he was dreaming all of the seasons at once, that could mean that he wanted his life to change in many different ways, as for the cows they could mean different ranges of emotion, but based on what he dreamed I think the dancing cows meant that he had a good feeling about after he died like everything was going to be ok.

 I think he was imagining what he wanted his and her life to be like if he were to live longer, he was dreaming it because he couldn’t actually live it. We humans imagine fake situations that sometimes can’t possibly come true, but sometimes of them could, but we imagine them because we wonder what it would be like to live in whatever world we are thinking of, because we could never actually live in that imaginary world. Inman was having his very last daydream so he wanted his dream to be the one that meant the most to him, to make himself the happiest he could be before dying.