Note to self... and you as well

After extensively researching the Greek god, Morpheus, I couldn't remember his or his brothers' names for the life of me. Why was remembering these names important? Because our class was given a quiz on Monday. I figured if I write down everything I know about Morpheus, I'll never lose those 3 points on a quiz again. Thus, this blog post is created:

Morpheus - Greek mythology: the god of dreams; "shaper of dreams".
Morpheus is the son of Hypnos, the god of sleep, and nephew of Hades, god of the underworld. He already seems to have an interesting connection with death and sleep. His line of work falls somewhere between his two relatives. The drug morphine is named after Morpheus.
He has two brothers: Phobetor and Phantasos. Phobetor appears in dreams in the form of animals or monsters; he his, essentially, the god of nightmares. From his name, we get "phobos", or fear. Phantasos appears in dreams as inanimate objects. His mother is the goddess of hallucination. From his name, we can derive "fantasy". The three bros live in Morpheus' dream world. When Morpheus is off in the human world, he leaves Phantasos in charge. This leaves Morpheus with the more likely dreams. The three of them make up the Oneiroi.

But what about this guy:

Does Laurence Fishburne's Morpheus of The Matrix have any connection to the Greek Morpheus? YES
In a world where machines grow humans and keep them imprisoned in the Matrix, Morpheus is a pretty big deal. That is, he's popular in the last human city outside of the Matrix, Zion.
The Greek Morpheus lives with his family in a dream world protected by the Gates of Morpheus; beyond the gates are the River of Forgetfulness and the River of Oblivion. In the film, the Matrix Morpheus offers Neo a blue pill or a red pill: one to forget about his new knowledge of the Matrix and continue his life within in, and the other to enter the real world and be "unplugged".
hmmmm.....


Also, here's a short clip from the Chappelle Show. Seemingly unrelated? Not so. It's a parody of Neo's conversation with Morpheus and attempt to escape his office.
http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=11886&title=real-movies-the-matrix

There's a good chance I'll never forget what I've written in this post and hopefully, won't lose points for lazy forgetfulness. Opportunity to relate this to Morpheus as well? Yes, but I'll let you make that connection.
Perhaps I'll just blog about things I don't think I'll remember so easily in the future. Or take less notes on aquatic life and miscellaneous...