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Beautiful poetry, music and literature have been created by all cultures, from all walks of life, that are full of inspirational stories about the importance of dreaming.

There are many references to the importance of dreaming and making dreams come true in literature, art and science. Bookshelves are inundated with men and women documenting personal experiences involving dreams that have changed the course of their lives and history. Famous people giving high credence to dreams include William Shakespeare, Henry David Thoreau, William Blake, Edgar Allan Poe, Lord Byron, Samuel T. Coleridge, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, William Wordsworth, Akira Kurosawa, Leonardo da Vinci, Luis Bunuel, William B. Yeats, Carlos Castaneda, Cicero, Bob Dylan, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Emily Bronte, George Bernard Shaw, William Burroughs, J. August Strindberg.