In Midsummer Night, magic power is used to confuse the characters in the forest and solve the conflicts before the return to the city. It is a force that not only solves the conflict but also provides the link to the world of dream and reality in which the characters appear to have a sense of doubleness. As a dream play and forest play, Midsummer Night protests the question of human existence that the characters appear to have double visions of self-knowledge, the possibilities of parted identities and the tranfiguration of minds.

I. Hermia's dreaming of Lysander
In Hermia's imagining, she separates Lysander into two kinds of figures during their sleep in the forest.

A. Lysander's trying to get close is refused by Hermia for her fear of Lysander's intrusive and sexual being.

B. Lysander at a distance after waking appears hostile and indifferent toward her.

C. Hermia's dreaming of a serpent and Lysander smiling at a distance echo Lysander's intrusive being and his hostility before and after their sleep.

Lys. "my heart unto yours is knit, / So that but one heart we can make of it;" (2.2.47-48)

Her. "Methought a serpent eat my heart away, / And you state smiling at his cruel prey." (2.2.149-150)

II. Transfiguration of Minds
The couples learn form their "dreaming" in the forest in order to re-enter Athens.

A. Hermia and Helena interchange their positions.

B. Lysander plays the Demetrius who once loved Helena and Demetrius himself plays his former self to love Helena.

Her. "Am not I Hermia? Are not you Lysander?" (3.2.273)

Dem. "But, as in health, come to my natural taste, / Now I do love it, long for it," (4.1.174-175)

III. Auditor & Actor
Puck and Oberon play both of the audience and actors in the mortal affairs.

A. Puck becomes an active agent of the dream drama to handle the conflict of the couples.

B. Both Puck and Oberon appear invisible as the audience to watch other actors on the stage.

Puck. "Shall we their fond pageant see?" (3.2.114)

Puck. "I'll be an auditor, / An actor too perhaps, if I see cause." (3.1.79-80)

Obe. "When they next wake, all this derision / Shall seem a dream and fruitless vision," (3.2.369-370)

IV. Fusion of Reality and Imagination
After their "dreaming", the return of the couples and Bottom blur the boundary of imagination and reality.

A.Hippolyta believes that their story is "more witness than fancy's images."

B.That Oberon and Titania appear in the end fuses the line between the dream and the real world.

C.Puck in the end declares the design of the all play as but a dream.

That you have but slumb'red here
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream
(5.1.425-428)