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It is said that Julius Caesar, a prolific dreamer, was guided by his dreams. On the strength of a dream, in which he violated his own mother, he decided to take his army across the Rubicon, a small river running along the Cisalpine border. The result of this was that he had in fact invaded his own motherland, an action that led to war between Caesar and the Senate.

He may well have acted upon his own dreams, but he disregarded those of others, in particular one his wife Calpurnia had. According to Shakespeare, her dream warned Caesar of ‘the Ides of March’. If he had heeded this murderous portent, the tragedy would have been averted, and Calpurnia’s dream would have remained a warning and not progressed into a prophecy.