In the poem Jabberwocky, Lewis Carroll gives no indication as to what 'draws the boy into' the wood, in fact, there is no indication that he was ever anywhere else. It is entirely possible that he and his father live in the wood.
It is a parody of Anglo saxon poetry, literature composed in the years from (circa) 450 until the Norman invasion of 1066. England used to be very heavily forested and a great many people would live in the woods, or in settlements surrounded by woods. Forests wouldn't be that separate 'other' place of dreams or nightmares, but one's home, which must be utilised for hunting, gathering and fuel.
There is no sense in the poem of the boy having entered anywhere (or left somewhere else); he picks up his sWord, spends a long time looking for his foe, then he rests on the Tumtum tree. As no change of location is described, or even suggested, it seems likely that both the boy and the father are in the woods from the beginning.
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