The Sandman
Mythical drowsiness figure
The Sandman is a mythical figure who brings sleep by sprinkling sand in children's eyes—hence the grit you rub away upon waking.
Parents invoke him at bedtime: Time for bed, the Sandman's coming.
The name has been adopted for various fictional characters, most notably Neil Gaiman's comic series featuring the personification of dreams.
- DreamCreator's chosen identity
- dark fantasyGrim supernatural storytelling genre
- sleep tightNighttime parting wish
- lucid dreamingSleep state with awareness
- MorpheusGod of dreams
bedtime story · Neil Gaiman · graphic novel · Hoffman · Supernatural · Iconography · Allegory · DC Comics · Corinthian · Dreamworld · Dreamworld
- HoffmannThe Nutcracker, Don Juan
- fantasy comicsRed Sonja, Fables, Berserk, Lucifer, Amethyst
- German LiteratureGoethe, Mann, Kafka, Franz Kafka, Rilke
- German WorksFaust, The Tin Drum, Siddhartha, Steppenwolf, The Metamorphosis
- German NovellasThe Metamorphosis, Metamorphosis, Death in Venice, Tristan, Siddhartha
The Sandmanalarm clock
Timed sleep-ender
rooster · reveille · wake-up call · caffeine · morning light
The SandmanFreddy Krueger
night terrors · incubus · sleep paralysis demon · nightmare · succubus
sand, man, sands, sandy, sandiness, sanding, sanded, sandier, sandiest