The Power of the Imagination in Macbeth, Hamlet, and a Midsummer Night's Dream

Dream

Vision: the ability to think about the future with imagination or wisdom; an experience of seeing something in a dream or trance, or as a supernatural apparition.

A dream is a powerful example of the imagination, and through dreams a person can be able to express true emotion and perform distinct constitutes of reality without actually being in reality. A person can escape the trials of the world and fall into a blissful state of sleep induced wonder wherein they can truly express authentic emotion. How is this possible? How can a person simply relive a type of society through their mind while in sleep? Cue imagination. The power of the mind is beyond ultimate human comprehension, yet it is commonly known that the imagination is one of the most creative and honest parts of the mind, also one of the most potent. Where else could a little girl dream of her future wedding, or a young boy find solace in the battle fields of the universe? The hard part sometimes, however, is determining truth from fallacy. When does a dream begin to seem too real, and when does a person lose a balance of the truth and begin to follow a figment of imagination? Can it even be determined? If a young man believes without a doubt that he saw the ghost of his dead father, who can prove him wrong? Especially if two of his friends saw the same ghost. When the same young boy later acts crazy in front of those whom he loves, can he then be considered creating imagination into reality? Can he then be condemned of insanity and "stretching too far" within his mind? Yet what of visions?