Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play that uses the vehicle of dreams to give the audience some insight into their personalities and personal motivations for the actions that are about to take place. Some of the dreams are wild, others magical, while still others are outright sensual in nature. The dreams are parallelled with the notion of love in that 'love' can be all of the things that we attribute to dreams. Reality and fantasy blur between dream and conscious states in this play so that many of the characters are confused. One such example is when Puck mistakes Lysander for Demetrious and puts the juice on Lysander, which makes him fall in love with Helena.
