In the meantime everybody gets dreams fulla existential angst and wakes up feeling like hell. He is sometimes slow when dealing with humor, occasionally insensitive, often self-obsessed, and is very slow to forgive or forget a slight.Īfter the end of one of Morpheus' invariably disastrous romances, Mervyn Pumpkinhead remarks, ' He's gotta be the tragic figure standing out in the rain, mournin' the loss of his beloved. Initially, Morpheus is a noble, tragic hero that compares favorably to heroes in the Greek tragedies. Morpheus would go through many changes over the years and although he appeared in other DC books, most of his development was done by Neil Gaiman during the main series. Originally, Gaiman had wanted to revive the cast of Simon and Kirby's original Sandman series, however, when DC editor Karen Berger gave him the go-ahead to write a new Sandman series, her one rule was that he must come up with a new Sandman character as well. Morpheus was created by Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth and Mike Dringenberg and first appeared in The Sandman #1. To modern humans he is a tall, thin, pale skinned, dark haired goth, similar in appearance to the lead singer of The Cure, Robert Smith. He appears as whomever is viewing him expects him to appear: a Martian sees him as a disembodied energy being, a cat sees him as a cat, humans see him as human and so on.

When the first living thing in the universe dreamt, he was born, and as long as something in the universe dreams, he will continue to exist. Like all his siblings, he is the anthropomorphic personification of an abstract concept, in Morpheus' case, dreams or the act of dreaming itself. Dream is neither a living being, nor a god.

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