Warning: The following contains SPOILERS for The Sandman season 1.Dream of the Endless, the protagonist of The Sandman, is a being of considerable if subtle powers. Despite being a DC Comics character, he is not a superhero and his powers are not well-suited to the flashy, four-color adventures usually associated with comic books. However, despite his unassuming appearance as a skinny Goth, Dream of the Endless is far more powerful than Superman and easily one of the most powerful beings in the DC Comics multiverse.

The third of the seven siblings making up the Endless family, Dream is said to have more names and titles than he does true friends. This is no exaggeration, for Dream seems to have taken on more duties outside his normal function than the other Endless, playing the role of the god of dreams in several pantheons across the multiverse. While Netfilx's The Sandman does not explore this quite so thoroughly as the original comics, the first season affirms Dream goes by the names Morpheus and Kai'ckul, who are both dream gods in ancient cultures.

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In terms of power, Dream is god-like, but is not a true deity. In the cosmology of The Sandman, gods gain power from the worship of mortals. The Endless exist regardless of whether anyone believes in them or not, yet their existence is paradoxically based upon humanity's belief that primal forces like Fate and Death need to have someone in charge of them. This gives Dream of the Endless a considerable well of power to draw upon in his role as the avatar of imagination, as well as a wide range of abilities.

Immortality

Morpheus is captured in The Sandman

As a member of the Endless, Dream is immortal and ageless. Dream will continue to exist for as long as there is sentient life in the multiverse capable of imagining things beyond what exists in reality. Even if someone does manage to find a way to destroy Dream's physical form, a new aspect of Dream will rise to replace the original, and it will be as if the original had never left. Dream is also able far more durable than the average mortal and his presence can slow the aging of mortals around him.

Inducing Sleep, Dreams, and Nightmares

The Sandman Dream Uses His Powers To Pacify Lady Constantine

An ability most dramatically conveyed in his first encounter with Lady Johanna Constantine, Dream has the ability to induce sleep in mortal beings and deliver them dreams and nightmares. He rarely uses this power offensively, but it makes for a most effective and non-lethal defense on the rare occasions where a mortal threatens him. There is seemingly no duration limit on this power, as Dream can make a person sleep forever or trap a person in an unending chain of nightmares, as he seemingly did with Alex Burgess in The Sandman episode 1, "Sleep of the Just."

Dimensional Travel and Dream Travel

The Sandman's Morpheus In Hell

Dream can transport himself and other beings to different dimensions and magical realms, as shown when he took himself and Matthew the Raven into Hell in The Sandman, episode 4, "A Hope in Hell." Dream can travel between his own realm, the Dreaming, and the Waking World at will, emerging nearly anywhere in reality that he wishes. He does this by traveling through the dreams of mortal beings within the Dreaming and then emerging where the mortal's bodies are in the Waking World.

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Altering Reality

The Sandman Morpheus Defeats John Dee

Easily the most fantastic of Dream's powers, he is capable of altering reality at will within the Dreaming itself. The Dreaming is a part of Dream and conforms to his wishes. He can create objects, such as the tools he uses to focus his powers. He can also create wholly independent entities, like the dreams and nightmares who populate the Dreaming. His ability to bring about change in the Waking World is more limited, but Dream's ruby is capable of altering the minds of others. This was shown by John Dee in The Sandman episode 5, "24/7," when he used Dream's ruby to manipulate the people around him and briefly made everyone on Earth unable to lie.

Inspiration

The Sandman Morpheus Will Shakespeare and Kit Marlowe

Besides being known as the Master of Dreams and King of the Nightmare Realms, Dream of the Endless has one other title of great importance, Prince of Stories. As the avatar of imagination, Dream of the Endless governs the world of fiction and all stories are his province. The library in his castle contains not only every book ever written, but every book that was dreamed of but never completed, as well as dream logs for every mortal creature in existence. Dream does not hoard this storehouse of knowledge, however, and freely offers his stories to open artists through dreams. On rare occasions, like with aspiring playwright William Shakespeare in The Sandman episode 6, "The Sound of Her Wings," Dream may directly act as an agent of inspiration.

Cosmic Awareness

The Sandman Dream With Books On His Throne

The many-titled and named Dream of the Endless is proof of the old adage that knowledge is power. The library at the heart of the Dreaming gives Morpheus access to a near infinite cache of information and access to the dream logs of nearly every sentient being in the multiverse. There is little that Dream cannot learn from his library, given sufficient time to research. Of course, as an immortal member of the Endless, time is not usually a concern for Dream, so there is also little practical limit to what he might learn as he literally has all the time in the multiverse.

Beyond the resources offered by his library and whatever assistance Dream might acquire from Lucienne the Librarian, he also has some limited degree of omniscience within the Waking World and is somehow capable of immediately knowing everything there is to know about a person as soon as he looks at them. This was demonstrated during his encounter with a woman known as "Lushing Lou" in The Sandman episode 6, "The Sound of Her Wings," during his 1889 appointment with the immortal Hob Gadling. Dream was intimately familiar with Lushing Lou's history, knowing her real name was Louise Baldwin and how she had come to fall into a life of prostitution, despite having never met her before. This display made it clear to Hob just how powerful his friend The Sandman truly was.

The Sandman season 1 is now streaming on Netflix.