Cover of The Sandman #1, by Dave McKean.

Dream is one of the Endless, fictional characters from Neil Gaiman's comic book series, The Sandman. He is the personification of dreams and storytelling. Download high resolution version (589x900, 129 KB)Cover of the first issue of Neil Gaimans The Sandman, by Dave McKean. ... Download high resolution version (589x900, 129 KB)Cover of the first issue of Neil Gaimans The Sandman, by Dave McKean. ... Cages (1998) by Dave McKean Dave McKean (born 29 December 1963 in Maidenhead, England) is an illustrator, photographer, comic book artist, filmmaker and musician. ... The Endless (Destiny, Death, Dream, Destruction, Desire, Despair and Delirium) are a group of beings who embody various aspects of the universe in the DC comic book series The Sandman, by Neil Gaiman. ... A fictional character is any person who appears in a work of fiction. ... Neil Gaiman (November 2004) Neil Richard Gaiman () (November 10, 1960, Portchester, Hampshire) is an English Jewish author of numerous science fiction and fantasy works, including many comic books. ... The Sandman was a comic book series written by Neil Gaiman and published by DC Comics for 75 issues from 1988 until 1996. ...

He is given many names in the series, including Morpheus and Oneiros. It is known that the Endless have many aspects, one of which is the personification active at any one time, and if one aspect dies, another replaces it. One particular aspect of Dream is the central character of the series, so referring to this aspect of Dream as Morpheus differentiates him from Dream as a whole. When the aspect known as Morpheus dies at the end of The Kindly Ones, the ninth collection of issues in the series, he is replaced by a new aspect, which came to gestation in the land of dreaming, called Daniel. This is a tricky concept, encapsulated in the tenth and final collection, The Wake, when one character at Morpheus' wake, perplexed by the question of who exactly has died, they are told by Abel that the purpose of the wake is to mourn "a p-p-point of view". The other Endless remain personified by the same aspect throughout the series, so they are simply referred to by the generic names. Morpheus is the principal god of dreams in the Greek Mythology. ... In Greek mythology, the Oneiroi were the sons of Hypnos, the god of sleep. ... The Kindly Ones (1996) is the ninth collection of issues in the DC Comics series, The Sandman. ... This article is about The Wake, the graphic novel in The Sandman series. ... Cain and Abel are a pair of fictional characters who appear in DC Comics. ...

Appearance

Morpheus is usually presented as a tall, thin, pale-skinned and black haired man, who has been noted vaguely to resemble Robert Smith (lead singer of The Cure). Peter Murphy (of Bauhaus), and David Bowie were also used as visual references early on. Some readers have even noticed a slight visual resemblance between Morpheus and Gaiman. His speech is usually portrayed in a wavy white font, on a black background, in speech bubbles with similarly wavy edges. Robert Smith Robert James Smith (born April 21, 1959 in Blackpool, England), a guitarist, vocalist and songwriter, has been the lead singer and driving force behind English post-punk band The Cure since its founding in 1976. ... The Cure is a British band widely seen as one of the leading pioneers of the British alternative rock scene of the 1980s. ... Peter John Murphy (born July 11, 1957, near Northampton, England) was the singer of the British rock group Bauhaus who later went on to release a number of solo albums, such as Deep and Love Hysteria. ... Bauhaus is a British rock band (formed in Northampton in 1978) popular in the 1980s. ... David Bowie (born David Robert Hayward-Jones on 8 January 1947) is an English rock singer, musician and actor. ...

When interacting with individual mortals, he appears in a guise appropriate to the mortal. For instance, in the story "Tales in the Sand" he interacts with the ancestors of a black aboriginal tribe, and is depicted as a black man called Kai'Ckul. He is once also depicted as a cat, in the issue "Dream of a Thousand Cats", and once as partway between a cat and a human, when talking to the feline goddess Bast. In the story "Men of Good Fortune", Dream is seen at different times in the last 600 years; his costume is a little more conventional than the modern Dream, but still with an air of eccentricity. In one popular sequence in the issue "The Parliament of Rooks", he and his elder sister Death are depicted as cartoon-style children. The Egyptian goddess of cats. ... Spoiler warning: Death as illustrated by Chris Bachalo. ...

He invariably wears black, except when wearing his formal costume, which involves purple and blue, and sometimes flames licking up the bottom of his cape. He has a helmet made from the bones of a dead god, which he seems to wear on occasions of great importance; this is his sigil in the galleries of the other Endless. Morpheus lives in a castle within his realm. Both the castle and the rest of the realm are mutable and change often, at Morpheus' will; but parts of both the castle and the realm are maintained in constant form as a courtesy to its inhabitants. It is perhaps significant that Morpheus is the only one of the Endless known to populate his realm - many other characters live there, including Cain and Abel. He even creates (and in some cases recruits) servants to perform roles he could easily carry out himself, including the reorganization of the castle and the guarding of its entrance. This perhaps points at an essential loneliness in Morpheus' character. This is a list of characters appearing in The Sandman. ...

Personality

Dream is a noble, tragic hero, very much in the traditional style of heroes of Greek tragedy. He is sometimes slow, a little at sea when dealing with humor, occasionally insensitive and often self-obsessed. (As Mervyn Pumpkinhead remarks, when one of Morpheus' invariably disastrous romances ends, "He's gotta be the tragic figure standing out in the rain, mournin' the loss of his beloved. So down comes the rain, right on cue. In the meantime everybody gets dreams fulla existential angst and wakes up feeling like hell. And we all get wet.") On the other hand, he is consistently aware of his responsibilities, both those to other people and those that go with his (for want of a better word) territory, which makes him both dependable and fair-minded. He shares a close, reciprocal bond of dependence and trust with his elder sister, Death. He consistently strives for understanding, most particularly of himself and of the other Endless, but is ultimately defeated by his most tragic flaw, his inability to consciously change himself and to recognize and accept the change that inevitably occurs at an unconscious level. As Lucien remarks in The Wake when asked (by Matthew, the raven) "Why did it happen? Why did he let it happen?", "Charitably...I think...sometimes, perhaps, one must change or die. And in the end, there were, perhaps, limits to how much he could let himself change." Mervyn Pumpkinhead is a character in Neil Gaimans popular comic book series, The Sandman. ... Spoiler warning: Death as illustrated by Chris Bachalo. ... Lucien is the Librarian in the Library of Dream of the Endless in the comic book The Sandman. ... This article is about The Wake, the graphic novel in The Sandman series. ...

List of Names

The Sandman

Kinge of Dreames (sic)

Prince Morpheus

The Prince of Stories

The Oneiromancer

Master of Dreams (Dream Master)

King of Dreams, of the Nightmare Realm

The Dreamlord (Lord of Dreams, Dream Lord)

Dream King

Lord of the Sleeping Marches

Lord of the Sleeping

Lord of Sleep

Master of the Realm of Sleep

Oneiros

The Shaper of Form(s)

Cat of Dreams

King of the Riddle Realms

Shaper or Lord Shaper

Lord of the Dream World

Prince of Stories

Monarch of the Sleeping Marches

His Darkness, Dream of the Endless

The Dreamweaver

The Nightmare King

Dream-creature

The Shaper of Dreams

Sultan of Sleep

Kai'ckul (to the people of his former lover, Nada)

His Darkness, Lord Oneiros of Dream

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Murphy (to the people of The Land in A Game of You)

King Dream (by Dr. Dee)

See also

• Characters of The Sandman
• Daniel