In 1804, the German chemist Friedrich Sertürner isolated from opium a " soporific principle " (), which he called " morphium " in honor of Morpheus, the Greek god of dreams ; in German and some other Central-European languages, this is still the name of the drug.

Morpheus is his chief minister and prevents noises from waking him.

We would dismiss it with some portentous words of Sir Kenelm Digby, in his observations on Browne's religio Medici: ' I have much ado to believe what he speaketh confidently ; that he is more beholding to Morpheus for learned and rational as well as pleasing dreams, than to Mercury for smart and facetious conceptions '.

* Morpheus ( Percy Jackson ) a minor character who appears in the last book in the series and is the god of dreams.

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Thessaly urges him to kill the Cuckoo, but Morpheus points out that, while the Cuckoo is dangerous, it is not truly evil.

Morpheus and Delirium arrange transportation with Pharamond ( now, Mister Farrell ) who is an old acquaintance of Morpheus from a time in ancient Babylon.

To Morpheus, this is a trifle, but the brother despairs in realizing that after the culmination of this age, follows “ the age of fire and flame ”.

The first half of the collection is a storyline which follows the wake for Morpheus, who died at the end of the ninth collection, The Kindly Ones.

With a significant nod to the parable style the old man's act of saving and caring for a stray kitten saves his life when he is lost through a soft place in reality and meets Morpheus, recently released from his imprisonment ( Preludes and Nocturnes ), and still weak.

It is principally about Gaiman's Morpheus and his issues with himself and his place in things.

The Sandmans main character is Dream, the Lord of Dreams ( also known, to various characters throughout the series, as Morpheus, Oneiros, the Shaper, the Shaper of Form, Lord of the Dreaming, the Dream King, Dream-Sneak, Dream Cat, Murphy, Kai ' ckul, and Lord L ' Zoril ), who is essentially the anthropomorphic personification of dreams.

At the start of the series, Morpheus is captured by an occult ritual and held prisoner for 70 years.

However, their quest is marred by the death of all around them, and eventually Morpheus must turn to his son Orpheus to find the truth, and undo an ancient sin.

He has taken many names, including Morpheus and Oneiros, and his appearance can change depending on the person who is seeing him.

Although he is most often seen in human form, Morpheus appears as a huge black cat when speaking to the lonely cat-pilgrim of Dream of a Thousand Cats and as a cat-headed god when addressing the Egyptian feline goddess Bast.

In The Dream Hunters, which is set in ancient Japan, Morpheus appears as a Japanese man to a Buddhist monk and as a fox to a fox spirit.

It is unclear whether Morpheus ' appearance is determined by the expectations of onlookers or if he chooses to manifest himself in different forms.

Morpheus ' speech is usually portrayed as white text in black, wavy-edged speech bubbles bordered in white.

Morpheus also sent warnings and prophecies to those who slept at shrines and temples.

Morpheus ' realm at any moment is also full of all creatures who are dreaming at that moment, although these seldom appear in the comics panel.

Morpheus also appears briefly during Kevin Smith's run on Green Arrow in a flashback showing him in Alexander Burgess ' basement, still imprisoned in Roderick Burgess ' glass globe prison.

He has also contributed voice acting to a number of computer games, most notably playing the villain Jon Irenicus in Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn and Morpheus in Fallout.

He also receives further instruction from Morpheus on subjects such as " freeing his mind " from the restrictions of the Matrix and the existence of its Agents.

There was also said to be a wilted elm tree in Morpheus ' domain, upon which the dreams fashioned by the Oneiroi hung, with the appearance of winged phantom-shapes.

In the Sandman series Morpheus is also the father of Orpheus, the famed musician of Greek mythology.

* Morpheus is also mentioned in the song " Schlaf " ( german for " Sleep ") by the german Post Black Metal Band Agrypnie.

The Wachowski brothers ( co-writers and directors of The Matrix films ) were fans of Neil Gaiman and based the character of Morpheus on the title character from the comic book The Sandman, also adopting one of his most common pseudonyms, Morpheus.

Brown is also present in the scene wherein Morpheus is interrogated, injecting a truth serum into Morpheus's neck.

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He has also acted in many fantasy shows that were filmed in New Zealand ; he co-starred as one of the adventurers in Jules Verne adaptation Mysterious Island, and had guest parts in Legend of the Seeker, the short-lived Cleopatra 2525, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and spin-off shows Young Hercules, playing the God Morpheus and Xena: Warrior Princess where he played Phalangus and also the God of the Underworld, Hades in the 5th season.

The game also allows the player to meet many of the characters in the films, including Trinity, Morpheus and the Merovingian, amongst others.

The film also contains an animated parody of the pill scene in The Matrix, with Leon Trotsky as Morpheus and Karl Marx as Neo.

We learn later that Ole Lukøje is in fact very old — he is Morpheus the Greek dream god, and in his final tale on Sunday he tells of his brother, likewise called Ole Lukøje but also Death, who closes the eyes of those he visits and takes them away with him.

Antagonists included the " sinister " villain Morpheus is the Sentinels ' sworn enemy ; he is also an Earthling given powers in the same manner as Hercules, Mercury, and Astrea, but far earlier.

Dream aka Morpheus is one of seven archetypal beings referred to as the Endless who embody various aspects of existence.

JC is a clone of his older brother Paul Denton ( thus, he is referred to as the " Secondary Unit " by Bob Page and Walton Simons and why Morpheus makes no mention of Paul as a relative ) and a prototype created by shadowy organization Majestic 12 to test their nano-augmentation program.

The fox overhears this from several demons employed by the onmyōji, and in an attempt to avert this, she travels to the Dreaming, where she meets Morpheus in the shape of an enormous black fox ( In the story, he is referred to as the King of All Night's Dreaming ).

* The Arms of Morpheus — Essays on Swedenborg and Mysticism, ed.