The Wizard of Oz v.s. Narnia

The reality in the Wizard of Oz is that it is really a dream. Dorothy is dreaming the whole thing while she is unconscious. The reality in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is that it is an alternate reality or world that people can travel back and forth between. The difference is that with Dorothy, time passes while she is unconscious and dreaming. Life does not stop, it keeps going on, it does not wait for her to become conscious again. But while the children are in Narnia, their real world is paused. When Lucy first discovers Narnia she is hiding in the closet that leads to it while her siblings are counting during a game of hide and go seek. She spends the day with Mr. Tumness and expects to come back to her siblings wondering where she had disappeared to. But when she gets back, her siblings are still counting as if her real world had been paused until she returned to it.