Examples are found in Chinese culture: In Chinese culture people invoked 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 figures used dreams and even sleep, a precursor to dreaming, as devices to advance 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 his A Midsummer Night's Dream, characters are enchanted while sleeping, which causes them to act against their normal state. Shakespeare also used dreams as tools in Henry IV, Measure for Measure, and The Tempest. One of my favorite passages of Shakespeare where he mentions dreams is in his Soliloquy from Hamlet's “Nunnery Scene”: To be or not to be, that is the question: whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous Fortune, or take up arms against a sea of ​​troubles, and by counteracting them, put an end to them? Dying, a