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Before "Alice in Wonderland" became associated with drug use in the 1960s because of a song by Jefferson Airplane, "Alice in Wonderland" had an entirely different meaning to a World War II audience.

In this 1942 film that won the Academy Award for best movie, while the Germans bomb London, parents read "Alice in Wonderland" to comfort their children as the bombs fall. So Wonderland becomes a comforting fantasy world to escape from war.

Walt Disney

Many people know the "Alice in Wonderland" story from the 1951 Disney film. But the movie is different in some key ways — most notably because Alice wants to go home which she doesn’t want to in the book.

The Beatles

John Lennon loved "Alice in Wonderland" as a child. So Lewis Carroll was featured on the cover of the "Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band" album. Lennon also used some ’Alice’ references in the song "I Am the Walrus" — even if he mixed up some of the characters.

"Later, I went back and looked at it and realized that the walrus was the bad guy in the story and the carpenter was the good guy," Lennon said in 1980. "I picked the wrong guy. I should have said, ’I am the carpenter.’ But that wouldn’t have been the same, would it?"

Jefferson Airplane

During the hippie era of the 1960s, the journey Alice takes to Wonderland becomes an allegory for drug use in the song "White Rabbit."

The song emphasizes Carroll’s references to pills, mushrooms and a "hookah smoking caterpillar."

Tom Petty

Although the song "Don’t Come Around Here No More" doesn’t have anything to do with ’Alice,’ the music video uses ’Alice’ characters and has plenty of drug and psychedelic images including giant mushrooms, a bong and what appears to be a drug trip after Alice eats something.

All the imagery proves Jefferson Airplane’s song "White Rabbit" seems to have permanently associated Alice’s adventures with a psychedelic drug trip.

"The Matrix" movies

The film’s directors the Wachowski brothers said references to "Alice in Wonderland" were scattered throughout the "Matrix" movies.

For example in the first "Matrix" movie Neo is told to follow the White Rabbit, he’s asked to take a pill and he sees a girl with a white rabbit tattoo.

"Star Trek"

The episode "Shore Leave" shows the USS enterprise discovering a planet with a white rabbit and Alice. The characters later find out their thoughts are coming to life.

Gwen Stefani

The music video for Stefani’s song "What You Waiting For?" has plenty of Alice characters including a mad tea party.

"Lost"

The first season of this TV series featured an episode entitled "White Rabbit" where Jack Shephard follows his father as the rabbit.

"American McGee’s Alice"

In the popular video game Alice is institutionalized and must fight her way out of a totalitarian world filled with characters from "Alice in Wonderland."

A movie version starring Sarah Michelle Gellar as Alice will be released in 2007.