Itâs interesting that the three errant dreams Morpheus needs to track down in the second half of the season are identified as part of the Major Arcana, a title that is heavily associated with tarot. The Major Arcana is often meant to represent our journeys throughout life, to tell a story. And the way that Morpheus interacts with these three dreams, and what they represent to him, also mirrors the most basic tarot spread - three cards: what was, what is, and what will be. The past, the present, and the future.
Gaultâs representation as the Past is conveyed through both Gaultâs desire to change and Morpheusâ rejection to it. She wants to be a dream instead of a nightmare. But itâs not a narrative accident that she is a nightmare. âA Nightmareâs purpose is to reveal a dreamerâs fears, that they may face them.â Morpheus is being forced to face both his fear of change and his fear of abandonment in this conversation. It hurts that nearly everyone left the Dreaming. It hurts to acknowledge that his own actions in the past have inspired fear rather than loyalty. He rejects his own capacity to change, and he reacts to Gaultâs dreams in the same way that he reacts to Hobâs friendship - with fear and anger.
He rejects, and punishes (though obviously to much different degrees), both Hob and Gault for their desires because to accept them would be to admit to his own desires.
(As an aside, I havenât read the comics yet, but I have stumbled into some spoilers - knowing the very little I know about major events at the end of the comic series, I wonder how much Gaultâs words, âI had no wish to rule. I merely wished to be a Dream and not a Nightmare,â are also a reflection of Morpheusâ desires.)
Fiddlerâs Green is a reflection of Morpheusâ desire to experience humanity, and itâs interesting the little tidbits we get throughout the arc that tells us what that means.Â
The first is, of course, Hob: the only thing Morpheus wants from Hob is to know about his experiences, what kind of life he chooses to live when thereâs no longer the limitation of death.
The library in the Dreaming has every story ever written or that will be written, Dream is the Prince of Stories. How are we introduced to Gilbert? He got caught up in a book.
Gilbert is the embodiment of compassion and a sense of adventure - Morpheus calls him the heart of the Dreaming, and Gilbert gently corrects him. He has the braincell self-awareness to understand that Morpheus himself is the heart of the Dreaming, that all of the Dreams and Nightmares are a reflection of some part of him.
âWhen a human is at the center of the Dreaming, is it not to remind us that we exist because humans dream? Not the other way around? The miracle of humanity itself should always be more vivid to us than any marvels of power.â How soon was Unity born after Dream walked out on Hob? Iâm sure it was a decade or two later, but still. Your repression is literally causing cosmic natural disasters, Dream.
The way this arc starts with Death sharing the love she has for humanity with Dream and pushing him towards Hob bookended with Gilbertâs compassion for Rose and humanity in general and his theory about the Vortex. Dream: âI have no idea what youâre trying to tell me.â
The confrontation between Morpheus and the Corinthian - *chefâs kiss*. There were so many double meanings in EVERYTHING they said to each other.
âYou were my masterpiece. A dark mirror made to reflect everything humanity will not confront.â A dark mirror of everything YOU wonât confront either, MORPHEUS.
âI contain the entire collective unconscious. Without my rules, it would consume me. Humanity would be consumed.â You made this guy with THREE MOUTHS, Dream. The dichotomy of both wanting a taste of what humanity has to offer vs. your fear of being consumed by it. Will you please go to therapy.
âNext time I make you, you will not be so flawed, and petty, little Dream.â I see you, foreshadowing! I see you.
Renew the show so Tom Sturridge can make me ugly cry, Netflix.
Also, going through Dreamâs confrontations with his own creations made it blindingly obvious why Desire is the Greater Scope Villain of this arc. Dream heavily rejects pretty much every single thing he could possibly want in these episodes - and gets real petty when heâs actually confronted about it. I canât imagine how violently repressing your own wants and needs might affect your relationship with your sibling who is literally Desire. It couldnât possibly have any negative repercussions at all, Iâm sure.
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