నిఘంటువు ప్రకారం, మార్ఫియస్ అనేది గ్రీకు కలల దేవుడిని సూచిస్తుంది, అతను తరచుగా దేవతల రెక్కలుగల దూతగా మరియు ఆకృతిని మార్చే వ్యక్తిగా చిత్రీకరించబడ్డాడు. జనాదరణ పొందిన సంస్కృతిలో, "మార్ఫియస్" అనే పదం తరచుగా సినిమా
లోని పాత్రతో ముడిపడి ఉంటుంది1. What really bothered him was that he did not really seem to be bothered by the thought that Lila might be laying in the arms of someone other than Morpheus.
2. Did Morpheus hunt her specifically, or merely comb through the dreams of all Titans in this region?
3. If it was Morpheus stalking her, sooner or later, he would catch her, and her mind would unfold before him like a papyrus roll.
4. Kirke had to wonder, over and over, what Prometheus thought he would do against Morpheus.
5. The better part of her nightmares had ceased since using the Box, so perhaps Morpheus had truly haunted her dreams, seeking her in her own time, while here she was beyond his reach.
6. The nightmares had abated after Prometheus had handed himself over to Zeus, at least until recently, so she had to believe Zeus had redirected Morpheus to something else for a time.
7. HER DREAMS WERE HAUNTED, and Kirke could not guess at the import of such vivid nightmares, unless Morpheus again tormented her.
8. The greatest oneiromancer of our age is called Morpheus, and he too is a member of the Circle of Goetic Mysteries.
9. Lebrun had painted on the vaulted ceiling the happy as well as the unhappy dreams which Morpheus inflicts on kings as well as on other men.
10. The bed creaked beneath his weight, and with the exception of a few broken sounds, emerging, or, one might say, exploding, from his overburdened chest, absolute silence soon reigned in the chamber of Morpheus.