![]() ![]() If there really were a being with control over all our mind-prisons, he'd have incredible power. While you're asleep, you're at the mercy of whatever stories and memories your psyche kicks up. A dream, after all – a real dream, not a daydream – is a prison for the mind. As so often happens with Gaiman, though, meditating upon one of his intuitions leads you to a whole new way of thinking. True, dreams are just about the only thing a prisoner has of his own, but it seems odd to imagine the bringer of dreams himself trapped in a cell. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes, he had the image of "a man, young, pale and naked, imprisoned in a tiny cell, waiting until his captors passed away, willing to wait until the room he was in crumbled to dust."ĭreams and imprisonment? It's not a connection most would make. "Before I even knew who he was," Gaiman writes in the afterword to The Sandman Vol. When Neil Gaiman first envisioned the Sandman, the supernatural dream lord he created 30 years ago, he thought about prison. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Sandman 1 Subtitle Preludes & Nocturnes Author Neil Gaiman ![]()
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