Sleeping in MacbethIt is natural to want to sleep after working hard. If something goes wrong or if the conscience feels guilty, the body does not let the person rest. The conscience keeps the person awake to think about his sins and continues to torture him until he confesses. In the play Macbeth, William Shakespeare uses imagery of sleep to show the guilt of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's conscience. When the idea of ​​the first murder enters their heads, things start to go wrong. They no longer have natural, healthy and normal sleep. Their sleep is made up of nightmares and other disturbances. Only an admission of guilt or death can save them. Strange things begin to happen in Macbeth's mind when he decides to carry out Duncan's murder. He sees the image of the dagger floating before him(53). These are his inner thoughts warning him of how unnatural this act is. When he goes to Duncan's room, he hears warnings from his conscience. “Sleep no more!/Macbeth has killed sleep,” innocent sleep.”(57) This is Macbeth's first evil act. At this point he still hears the warnings. As he goes deeper into the darkness, all the other voices disappear. Instead he is haunted by dreams, images and evil premonitions. Lady Macbeth is also warned of the problems that will arise. When he goes to Duncan's room, he sees the image of his father, warning her not to kill Duncan well to muster the strength to carry out the deed. Both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth give up their souls in pursuit of kingship. It is this obvious disregard for conscience's warnings about the loss of innocence that causes them to be haunted by it later in the play .The great loss is natural sleep. Sleep is the day's reward As Macbeth and Lady Macbeth give up their innocence, they lose good sleep "Nature seems dead and evil dreams abuse veiled (53)." the season of all natures, sleep, is missing,” Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth(109). Their sleep is no longer natural. He is forced by them. Their conscience will no longer let them rest. He wants them to suffer for their sins. The doctor observes: "A great disturbance in nature, to receive at the same time the benefit of sleep and obtain the effects of vision".(161).