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Dream is one of The Endless , Fictional Character s from Neil Gaiman 's comic book series, '' The Sandman ''. He is the personification of dreams and storytelling. He is given many names in the series, including '', 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. 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 -Also, his speech is usually rendered with normal capitalisation rules, contrary to the comic book tradition of Block Caps text. 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. 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. 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 '' 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." LIST OF NAMES
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