The Dreaming (comics) - Locations

Locations

The Dreaming is vast, and its landscape varies greatly from place to place. Some of the important locations of The Dreaming include:

• The House of Secrets and the House of Mystery, Cain and Abel's homes.
• The Gates of Horn and Ivory, two gates carved by Dream; "the dreams that pass through the gates of ivory are lies, figments and deceptions. The other admits the truth..." (Gaiman). This is a direct reference to Virgil's "Aeneid" in which Virgil passes through the "realm of sleep" and encounters two similar doors with similar functions.
• The Castle, Dream's abode at the center of the Dreaming. The front gate is guarded by three mythical beasts, a gryphon, a wyvern, and a hippogriff (often mistakenly drawn as a winged horse). It includes Lucien's library, which contains every book that anyone ever dreamt of writing. The library allows its users to read any of its books whether or not the reader speaks the language it was written in or indeed can even read. When one of the dreamed of books is actually written in the real world, the copy in Lucien's library bursts into flames and is destroyed.