Oneiroi: Children of the Night

Where do dreams come from? Why does it happen that we sometimes delve into the sweetest illusions and other times, the scariest nightmares? People have been asking this question for centuries and millennia and have come up with fascinating stories. The German word for nightmare, "Albtraum" stems from the idea that fairies sit on the sleeping person's chest, causing discomfort (that could be healed with tomatoes, weirdly). In the middle ages, the church believed that dreams were the devil's temptations. But our story dates even further back, to the ancient Greeks: The battle between Morpheus and Phobetor.

Morpheus and Phobetor are both members of the Oneiroi, children of the night, architects of dreams. Morpheus represents the beautiful dreams, while Phobetor is the personification of nightmares. On the mountain top of the Olymp, Morpheus summons the true dreams, while Phobetor gathers the deceptive ones. Set up against each other, they fight over human control.