Love blurs the line between reality and fantasy, making the characters wonder if it's all just a dream. This situation is clearly depicted in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, when Robin puts the four lovers to sleep and they wake up wondering if they have lived a twisted fantasy. With vivid dreams that often seem real it is impossible to determine whether you are awake or actually dreaming. Shakespeare's character, Robin Goodfellow, takes this concept further by playing countless tricks on mortals making them question the reality they live in: “That thou hast but slept here, while these visions appeared. And this weak and idle theme, no longer yielding but a dream. (V.1.171) Robin believes he has just accomplished his greatest plan by convincing the mortal lovers that their fight never happened. He realizes the true intelligence of his plan by putting the lovers back to sleep and knows they will wonder if they were ever truly awake. Since no one is present to witness these events, there is no evidence that they happened. Robin and the fairies are the main source of confusion regarding reality as they have their own agendas which lead mortals to easily become prey to their games. Bottom the Weaver, for example, receives a donkey's head thanks to Oberon and Robin. Furthermore, the potion the fairy queen receives makes her fall in love with Bottom. However they put him to sleep and within minutes he went from being a fairy king to wondering if it was all just a dream, stating: “Man is nothing but an ass if he goes around explaining away this dream. I thought I was... no one can say what. (IV.1.135) Bottom is hopelessly confused as the fairies play a trick on him, yet you can see that Bottom re... in the center of the card ......d. An even more well-known example is The Matrix, where the characters enter an almost alternative world where it represents reality for them. This confusion is reversed from that of A Midsummer Night's Dream because the characters in The Matrix believe their fantasies are real, while Shakespeare's characters believe their reality is a dream. This blurred line between reality and fantasy is a good thing, especially in A Midsummer Night's Dream, when the characters block out their terrible argument and ignore it as a dream so they can move on and be happy. However today it can be more of a headache as it simply makes us stop and question reality for a few moments before the thought slips to the back of our mind. Four hundred years later, we still see traces of Shakespeare's themes in our daily lives and will always wonder if it is anything but a dream...