The Sandman is a mythical person, who throws sand into the eyes of children to make them sleep. Sand was probably chosen because when we first close our eyes we see a pattern of light and dark that looks like grains of sand.

That’s a lot of sand when you think of how many children there are, but the bag is magic too. Except on Discworld. Terry Pratchett says that the Sandman there only needs a small bag of sand to put children to sleep with because he doesn’t take the sand out.

Mr. Sandman is a comic book series by Neil Gaiman and In publication since 1952, Mr. Sandman chronicles the day to day life of Dream, the anthropomorphic personification of the concept of dreams. Dream, though immortal and existing since the beginning of time, is your standard everyday teenager from the 50s. He enjoys such activities as going on dates with Calliope and Nada (rivals for his affection), meeting up with his old friend Jughead (a mortal granted everlasting life) at the same soda jerk every 100 years, and bringing into existence desirable new teenagers at the request of existing ones.

Mr Sandman, send me a dream….

eye boogers. When you sleep sometimes you wake up with little particles in the corner of your eye that resemble grains of sand. People used to think that those particles were a result of being visited by “Mr. Sandman” while you were asleep. “Mr. Sandman” was supposed to represent the bringing of dreams

i pretty sure its from this really super old song which i forget the title though. ]:

i guess……….spiderman 3