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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.
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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* Morpheus ( morphing software ) is a morphing software for Windows and Mac OS X
FastTrack is a peer-to-peer ( P2P ) protocol that was used by the Kazaa, Grokster, iMesh, and Morpheus file sharing programs.
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 and from
* Morpheus differs significantly and may have completely independent code from the GnucDNA engine.
It took its name from the Greek god of dreams Morpheus ().
Additionally, Ovid wrote that Mercury carried Morpheus ' dreams from the valley of Somnus to sleeping humans.
From the meaning " within " ( endogenous,, " proceeding from within ") and morphine, from Morpheus,, the god of sleep in the Greek mythology, thus ' endo ( genous ) ( mo ) rphine ’.
The end of Morpheus ' latest relationship ( later revealed to be with Thessaly from the " A Game of You " story arc ) has left the Dreaming in a rain storm, a topic for discussion for Merv Pumpkinhead, Matthew the raven, and Lucien.
When Lucifer gives Hell's key ( and therefore, the ownership of Hell ) to the Sandman, Morpheus himself becomes trapped in a tangled network of threats, promises, and lies, as gods and demons from various pantheons seek ownership of Hell.
* The Dreaming ( 1996 – 2001 ): A monthly series set in Morpheus ’ s realm, but revolving around the supporting characters with little interaction from the Endless and focused largely on Cain and Abel, who have been DC stalwarts since the late 1960s.
Morpheus usually appears as a tall, thin man with bone-white skin, black hair, and two distant stars looking out from the shadows where his eyes should be.
" There is a long-standing enmity between Morpheus and Desire, stemming from Desire's involvement in the breakup of one of Dream's romantic relationships ( seen in Endless Nights ).
Morpheus is the only one of the Endless known to populate his realm with speaking characters — a multitude of beings, dreams and nightmares he has created as well as entities from other realms, live in the Dreaming.
Since the creation of the Vertigo imprint ( itself largely inspired by the success of DC Comics ' increasingly mature titles such as Swamp Thing, Watchmen, Hellblazer, and The Sandman ), DC's horror / occult characters such as Morpheus have drifted progressively further away both from DC continuity and from each other.
Six months after the events of the first movie, Morpheus receives a message from Captain Niobe of the Logos calling an emergency meeting of all of Zion's hovercraft.
* Dit de la fontaine amoureuse aka Livre de Morpheus (" Story of the Amorous Fountain ") ( 1361 ) – The narrator meets a hopeless lover who must separate from his lady ; the two men come to a magical fountain and fall asleep, and in a dream the lady consoles her lover.
Krüger has published three collections of his works, and has a yearly art calendar from Morpheus International.
Fresco in the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, depicting Charon ( mythology ) | Charon, Morpheus ( god ) | Morpheus, and other characters from Greek mythology, 1684-1686.
He is then contacted by Trinity, freed from the bug, and taken to meet Morpheus.
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.

Morpheus and waking
* A raven named Matthew who travels through the waking world on errands for Morpheus, usually as a scout or spy.
Unity was a victim of the ' sleepy sickness ' that resulted from Morpheus ' capture, waking up only after Morpheus finally freed himself.

Morpheus and him
The purpose of his early dreams was to reach ' Slumberland ', the realm of King Morpheus, who wanted him as a playmate for his daughter, the Princess.
These changes are demonstrated when he thanks his servants for their service, and allows Nuala to keep the pendant given to him by his recent ex-lover, though earlier Lucien had warned her Morpheus would not want any reminder to be seen in the castle.
Death confirms to him that Morpheus has died, and offers to let him die as well, now that he no longer has his agreement with Morpheus to fulfill.
The Martian Manhunter sees Morpheus as a Martian god in the shape of a flaming alien skull and identifies him as Lord L ' Zoril, but Mister Miracle, looking at him simultaneously, sees Morpheus as a man.
Morpheus has a great pride that does not tolerate damage, examples include banishing Nada to Hell for rejecting him and being angry ( originally ) at the notion made by Hob Gadling that he seeks companionship and is lonely.
Morpheus maintains both the castle and the realm, as with all aspects of his appearance, in a half-accommodating, half-terrifying state, simultaneously acknowledging both the courtesy due to others and the attention due him as the realm's master, and indeed the pleasantness and terror of dreams themselves.
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.
When Delirium and Morpheus encounter him in the seventh collection of issues in the series, Brief Lives, he has taken to wearing his hair in a ponytail, and owns a talking dog, Barnabas.
Destruction features most prominently in Brief Lives, in which his siblings Morpheus and Delirium set out to track him down.
When they finally meet they do not exactly argue but talk at cross-purposes ; Destruction's choice of path baffles and to some degree infuriates Morpheus, while Destruction finds it hard to comprehend Morpheus ' position and concentrates on trying to impart to him some wisdom on the necessity of change and self-knowledge.
She does not say much, and consequently appears brusque, but her speech at Morpheus ' wake in The Wake reveals her sympathy and feeling for him.
During the years prior to the events of The Matrix, Anderson has spent his time trying to find the one man who he thought could tell him what the Matrix was: a supposed terrorist known only as Morpheus.
The Oracle warns him that a situation will arise when he will have to choose between saving his own life or that of Morpheus.
Despite a close call with Agents that capture, interrogate, and place a surveillance device on Neo, Morpheus and his crew locate him.
Morpheus offers Neo a choice of ingesting a red pill, which will activate a trace program to locate Neo's body in the real world and allow the Nebuchadnezzar crew to extract him, or a blue pill, which will leave Neo in the Matrix to live and believe as he wishes.

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