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Once upon a time, in the days of classical Greece, there was a God of Sleep called Hypnos that had a twin brother called Thanatos (God of the non-violent death), another called Keres (God of the violent death) and another called Moira (Goddess of the fate). Nyx, the Goddes of Night (daughter of chaos) and Hypnos have a son named Morpheus (the God of Sleep)who can transform and reproduce human forms. He touched the front of the men with a stick or a poppy flower to make them dream while they were sleeping.
With its wings, Morpheus could travel through the world and if someone did not want to fall asleep in his arms, he seduced him and took him to the dream world…
Morpheus lived in a palace built inside a cave, so that nothing and no one ever altered its tranquility. He slept in a ebony illuminated bed covered with poppies and nocturnal birds flitting around. It is said that he was killed by Zeus for revealing the mortals secrets.
Today, we use the word “narcotic” to refer to certain drugs, whereas if we look after its etymological meaning it means drowsiness or lethargy. The word “morphine” comes from Morpheus and their properties to induce the sleep. Do you remember “Matrix”? The boss, called Morpheus, moves in and out of the real world: he seems to have everything clear and under control. He will be responsible to show Neo the difference between reality, truth and fiction. These are topics very important for humans…
According to the studies of the Freudian psychoanalysis, dreams are disguised realizations of our repressed desires. In his Interpretation of Dreams (1900), the Austrian physician and neurologist shows that our unconscious reveals information about ourselves.
The Surrealists were fascinated by his theories, as these artists sought the essence of the men in the reason non-control. The creative force of sleep inspired very much to Salvador Dalí (The Dream, 1937) and to Pablo Picasso (The Dream, 1932), whose paintings illustrated a soft head, in a state of torpor. Today there are many thematic dictionaries that give us some clues to about the free associations dream techniques.
Interpreting the dreams can be very funny, but as the writer Edgar Allan Poe once said: “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.” Make your dreams come true travelling to Andalusia and renting apartments in Berlin. You’ll have a great time there!
