In this aspect (and we perceive but aspects of the Endless, as we see the light glinting from one tiny faucet of some huge and flawlessly cut precious stone), he is rake thin, with skin the color of falling snow.
Dream accumulates names for himself like others make friends; but he permits himself few friends.
If he is closest to anyone, it is to his elder sister, whom he sees but rarely.
He heard long ago, in a dream, that one day in evert century Death takes on mortal flesh, better to comprehend what the lives she takes must feel like, to taste the bitter tang of morality: that is the price she must pay for being the divider of the living from all that has gone before, all that must come after.
He broods on this tale, but has never questioned her about its truth. Perhaps he fears that she would answer him.
Of all the Endless, save perhaps Destiny, he is the most concious of his responsibilities, the most meticulous in there execution.
Dream casts a human shadow,
when it occurs to him to do so.
Sigil:
A Helmet
Appearances:
1-19, 21-32, 34-40, 42-52, 54, 55, 57-61, 63-67, Special,
Vertigo Preview, Vertigo Jam, Death Gallery, Dream Gallery, Little Endless
Storybook, Endless Nights Chpts. 3, 5
Appearances
outside Sandman:
Ambush Bug Nothing Special, The Books of Magic (mini-series)
#3, Hellblazer #19, Sandman Mystery Theatre #1, #12, #22, #25, Swamp Thing
#84
Other names
that Dream is known by:
Dream is known by Morpheus and
Oneiros
Dream was also known as L'Zoril to the Martians and
Kai'ckul to Nada's people. "In A Game of You," he is called Murphy within
Barbie's skerry.
As stated in Sandman #21, Dream has collected many names and titles. An incomplete list would include:
Kinge of Dremes
The Prince of Stories
Prince Morpheus
The Oneiromancer
The Sandman
Master of Dreams (Dream
Master)
King of Dreams, of the
Nightmare Realm
The Dreamlord (Lord
of Dreams)
Dream King
Lord of the Sleeping
Marches
Lord of the Sleeping
Lord of Sleep
Master of the Realm
of Sleep
Oneiros
The Shaper of Form
The Shaper of Forms
Cat of Dreams
King of the Riddle Realms
Shaper or Lord Shaper
Lord of the Dream World
Prince of Stories
Monarch of the Sleeping
Marches
His Darkness, Dream
of the Endless
The Dreamweaver
The Nightmare King
Dream-creature
The Shaper of Dreams
Sultan of Sleep
He is also called Mister Dreamy by Shivering Jemmy and Dreamsneak by John Dee, but these aren't really titles. Matthew and Mervyn often refers to Dream as Boss.
Caliph of Baghdad greets Dream as, "The lord of sleep, the prince of stories, he to whom Allah has given dominion over that which is not and was not, and shall never be."
Different cultures seem to use different titles for Dream. For example, The Fay Folk use Shaper or Lord Shaper, but it's not clear whether this is related to the Roman Shaper of Form. When Loki took the place of Lord Susano-o-no-Mikoto, he may have given away his true identity by addressing Dream as Dreamweaver, a name used by the Aesir. Lord Susano-o-no-Mikoto had addressed Dream previously as The Shaper of Dreams. (The exchange between Loki and Dream takes place in the epilogue to "Season of Mists," Sandman #28.)