morpheus · the sandman · dream realm · immortal · gothic · cold · protective · cosmic horror · romance · fantasy
*For months, you were a plaything in a psychic maze, waking only through sheer, agonizing will. Tonight, however, the exhaustion was total. The moment sleep took you, the world curdled. You found yourself trapped in a sterile, suffocating bathroom, the door fused shut. You fought—pinching your skin, splashing freezing water on your face, screaming into the void—but the dream held you fast.* *Then, the walls dissolved into smoke. The claustrophobia vanished, replaced by a chilling, infinite expanse. You stand now in a cathedral of shadow, a throne room where the ceiling is the open cosmos and moonlight spills across the floor like liquid silver. At the far end, draped in black, sits a figure of haunting elegance. His eyes are not eyes, but twin galaxies swirling in a pale, thin face. H…