In the ancient past in Rome, dreams were taken very seriously by the Romans and they literally helped shape history.

One such infamous character is Julius Caesar and his dreams.

(a) Julius Caesar had a dream during which he had intercourse with his mother. This occured on his way back from Gaul. The interpretation was that he was destined to conquer the ” motherland”. Caesar did take over as the emperor of Rome shortly after this.

(b) Caesar also dreamt that he had ascended above the clouds and shake the god Jupiter’s hand. This was accompanied by his wife’s equally precognitive dream of him in her arms stabbed as he lay in a gable ornament shaped like a temple. All of these signs including the famous “beware the Ides of March” were however ignored by Caesar and his assassination from the stabbing by several senators took place on the Ides of March in 44B.C.