Examples are found in Chinese culture: In Chinese culture, people called on their ancestors for dream revelations by sleeping on tombs. Like the Egyptians, the Chinese have a dream book. Duke of Zhou Interpret Dreams was a dream book that recounts the dreams of the Duke of Zhou (God of Dreams). Literary characters used dreams and even sleep, a precursor to dreaming, as a means of advancing plots and characters. William Shakespeare used this tool in many of his writings. For example, dreams found in Shakespeare's Hamlet, Macbeth, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, and King Lear offer key psychological and symbolic insights into the motivations and internal landscapes of important characters. In A Midsummer Night's Dream, characters experience enchantments while they sleep, causing them to act contrary to their normal state. Shakespeare also used dreams as devices in Henry IV, Measure for Measure, and The Tempest. One of my favorite passages from Shakespeare in which he mentions dreams is in his Soliloquy from the “Nunnery Scene” from Hamlet: To be or not to be, that is the question: is he nobler in spirit to suffer scandalous slings and arrows? Fortune, Or take up arms against a sea of ​​troubles, And by opposing it, put an end to it? Die,