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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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.

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 flashes back to the late 17th century, when he, accompanied by the Corinthian, meets his brother in England.

The Roman poet Ovid, however, states in his Metamorphoses that Morpheus is a son of Hypnos, rather than his brother ( it does not mention the identity of the mother ), and multiplies the Oneiroi into an uncountable host of spirits, with Morpheus, Icelus and Phantasos being merely the most prominent among them.

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.

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.

Soon after, Morpheus ( God of Dreams ) disguised as Ceyx appeared to Alcyone as an apparition to tell her of his fate, and she threw herself into the sea in her grief.

Morpheus escapes in the modern day and, after avenging himself upon his captors, sets about rebuilding his kingdom, which has fallen into disrepair in his absence.

* Fables and Reflections ( collecting The Sandman # 29 – 31, 38 – 40, 50 ; Sandman Special # 1 ; and Vertigo Preview # 1, 1991 – 1993, ISBN 1-56389-105-0 ): A collection of short stories set throughout Morpheus ' history, most of them originally published directly before or directly after the " Game of You " story arc.

As Mervyn Pumpkinhead remarks, after the end of one of Morpheus ' romances, " He's gotta be the tragic figure standing out in the rain, mournin ' the loss of his beloved.

Later, however, when Dream angrily blames Desire for the whole affair, Desire offers no defense, only asking Destruction after Morpheus storms off, " Doesn't he have a sense of humor?

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.

* Project Morpheus is a NASA project, to develop a lunar lander test-bed, that was named after the god Morpheus.

Their relationship became estranged shortly after Morpheus visited the Oracle, an ally living in the Matrix, who told Morpheus that he would be the person who would find the One, a human having superhuman abilities within the Matrix who could end the human / machine war.

Shortly after Neo visits the Oracle, Morpheus is captured by agents who plan to hack into his mind.

When the Sentinels retreat after Neo defeats the former Agent Smith, now a virus that has threatened both humans and machines, Morpheus and Niobe embrace in celebration as cheers arise from the Zion population, who have received a brokered peace through Neo's sacrifice.

Her role in The Matrix: Path of Neo is relatively similar to her appearances with Neo in the films ; she has a spar with him during his sword-fighting training, accompanies him during the raid on the military building to rescue Morpheus ( subsequently helping him to defeat an Agent on the rooftop ), and is later rescued by him from some attacking Agents after the last meeting with the assorted ship captains.

" The fox informs Morpheus of this advice, then tells him she will seek the Buddha after seeking revenge.

Niobe was once romantically involved with Morpheus, but their relationship broke apart after Morpheus received his revelations from the Oracle and started to preach the prophecy of the One ( a prophecy Niobe has never truly believed in ).

He called the isolated alkaloid " morphium " after the Greek god of dreams, Morpheus.

Eventually, after a long chase through the freeway, and firing upon Morpheus and company with an HK UMP, the Twins are dispatched by Morpheus when he causes their vehicle to overturn and explode.

Unity was a victim of the ' sleepy sickness ' that resulted from Morpheus ' capture, waking up only after Morpheus finally freed himself.

Alexia Ashford in Code Veronica retains her full intelligence after being exposed to the T-Veronica virus and gains psychic abilites, including pyrokinesis ; similarily, the TG-virus mutated Morpheus D. Duvall in Resident Evil: Dead Aim ( Tyrant T-092 ) gains bio-electric abilities.