The dreaming awareness amongst the Kongo is similar to the one found in the Græco-Roman world. In the 19th book of Homer’s Odyssey and likewise in Virgil’s Aenid, dreams are located in the realm of Hades and can be either true or false. Penelope dreams of two doors, the ivory gate of false dreams and the horned one of true dreams. Both doors allow dreams to pass through into the world of the living, to deceive or enlighten, to give rise to flights of fantasy or flights of imagination. The Kongo likely perceived dreams as spectres and ghosts and thus approached dreams as they did messages from the ancestors.