Journal+-+Hye+Rim

Summary:  Libya was known as where the young god, Morpheus, played. Morpheus was the nephew of Hades and the son of Hypnos, the god of the dream. Morpheus job was to fly around the world, and scatter sleep from nightfall to dawn. His father mixed the colors of sleep for him which was dark, thick and sad. But his aunt Persephone secretly gave him a pocket full of bright things. Morpheus was fascinated by people’s dreams that he asked Persephone to make a flower that makes people dream. It was called lotus. People living where the lotus was never did anything except for dreaming and collecting the lotuses. The smell made people dozy and people fell asleep. Ulysses and his men were heading for this island and when they arrived, and soon they all fell asleep, including Ulysses. They dreamt about horrible things, like burning the Troy down, so Morpheus made them sleep some happy stuff, like their wife, children and home. However, Morpheus thought that Ulysses should dream his own dream so Ulysses dreamt about all the horrible things that was going to happen during their journey. Ulysses finally woke up and carried all his sleeping men back to the ship. Everyone had fresh energy and were happy, except for Ulysses, who knew what they were heading for.   Journal:  Ulysses had wide, grooved brow, sunken eyes, red hair, jutting chin. I think that Ulysses was very strong both physically and mentally. He survived on the Trojan War, and also from the fight with those Ciconians. I think Ulysses was mentally strong because although it was really hard, he still managed to wake up from his dream and stopped himself from falling asleep again even though the smell of lotus was really strong.