Daniel Hall

Skills
Art: The ultimate talent for creating creative dreams (and nightmares).
Insight: Dream has a special talent for introducing different ideas and new concepts into people's minds and lives (and also for removing them).
Occultism
Narrative: As the master of all stories ever told, Dream is a master of the art of storytelling. He was able to explain the complex origin of Barbatos and the Dark Multiverse to mortals in a way that allowed them to understand it.
Weaknesses
Ancient Rules Despite his great powers, Dream, like the other Endless, is subject to a complex set of rules and customs that limit his abilities. One of them prevents him from shedding the blood of his family, under penalty of losing his protection as the personification of Dream against other personifications. Dream can also only take the life of a mortal to protect the Dreaming. Another rule is that he cannot fall in love with a mortal, as this guarantees the mortal's ruin.

Reality Manipulation: The Dreaming's power is directly linked to the Dreaming, allowing him to easily manipulate reality on a universal scale. He can create objects and entities to serve him, as well as alter the weather and landscape within the Dreaming. Having been absent from the Dreaming for 70 years, his realm weakened and only strengthened in his presence.
Photokinesis: Dream can manipulate, create, and project light at will.
Telekinesis: Dream can manipulate objects and people with the power of his mind. He managed to unlock a door and open it telekinetically.
Magic: Dream is an excellent and powerful magic user, being almost omnipotent in the Dreaming.
Power Distribution: Morpheus was able to distribute a portion of his power among his equipment, such as the Sandbag and the Dreamstone.
Curse: Dream can cast and create curses through magic. He can easily curse someone who has disturbed him, condemning them to suffer nightmares for eternity.

Dream Invasion: He has the ability to enter other people's dreams without them realizing it, often analyzing and even interacting with his target's dreams. Even in prison, Dream represented a certain risk to the guards watching over him, always being warned not to sleep during his shift so that Morpheus wouldn't enter his naps.
Supernatural Tracking: Dream was able to track down the demon who had stolen his helmet in hell with extreme ease, amidst thousands of demons.
Dream Conjuration: He can conjure dreams, ideas, and nightmares in the minds of humans with ease, having complete control over this aspect. He cursed a man, condemning him to an "eternal awakening," trapping him in an endless cycle of awakenings from a terrible nightmare.
Cosmic Consciousness: Dream is the ruler of all dreams in the universe, having access to all stories ever told. Morpheus knows virtually everything, including how the Omniverse was created. He also knows all the stories that will be told in the near future.
Dream Absorption: Morpheus literally feeds on the dreams generated by people and the food contained within those dreams.
Illusion Generation: Dream is able to create illusionary projections so realistic that he can interact with them physically and verbally. He claims that dreams and reality are much closer than many imagine.
Healing: He can heal his own wounds and injuries quickly.

Powers and Abilities
As the new Dream, Daniel possesses all the powers of his previous incarnation:

Personification of Dreams: As one of the seven Endless, Dream is one of the most inconceivably powerful beings in the universe, being both the master and personification of all dreams and reality. He wields absolute control over sleep, dreams, nightmares, and even insomnia.
Immortality: As a Perpetual, Dream is an immortal being and will exist forever. Disease and age do not affect him, making his existence unshakeable. If a Perpetual is killed or destroyed, their personality and powers are transferred to another person, who will assume their place and incarnation in the universe. When Dream died, his gifts were transferred to Daniel Hall.
Teleportation: Dream can go anywhere on Earth or in any other realm with ease. He can open interdimensional portals to travel between worlds, even to hell itself.
Metamorphosis: The ruler of dreams can alter his own appearance and attire at will through the "dream space." He also seeks to disguise himself in the presence of lesser beings so that they may understand who he is.
Superhuman Strength: Dream possesses strength and endurance superior to that of an ordinary human. He was able to lift a demonic guard and throw him a great distance with just one arm.
Superhuman Stamina: Dream spent the last 70 years imprisoned without food, which didn't starve him to death. Despite this, he was only slightly weak and hungry.
Sleep Induction: Morpheus can make any human fall asleep instantly. When he escaped from prison, he made his guards sleep with a blast of sand launched from his hand. Legends of the Sandman say that he made children sleep by pouring small grains of sand onto their eyelids.

Lyta Hall
Lyta is Daniel's mother, and it is implied that Daniel loves and cares for her. When he became the new King of Sleep, he assured her that he didn't hate her for what she had done and that they would always be family.

Rose Walker
Because she was his and his mother Lyta's neighbor, Rose used to take care of him when Daniel was little.

As a child, Daniel was very curious and eccentric. However, even as a baby, he demonstrated a certain resistance to fear, as seen in his excitement upon meeting Goldie and his indifference when thrown into the fire by the demonic Puck.

As an aspect of Dream, although Daniel is the same entity as Morpheus, Daniel represents a different "point of view" of the entity compared to his previous incarnation. While his predecessor could be cold, distant, and slow to admit mistakes and embrace new ideas, the current Dream is much kinder, more compassionate, and considerate of the feelings and affections of those he encounters. His polite nature demonstrates his openness to suggestions and corrections regarding things he doesn't understand, a trait his previous version failed to master, even up to the moment of his rebirth. He also feels much more comfortable with change than before, stating that one day he will have to destroy his emerald for the good of the Dreaming.

The difference was noticed by the inhabitants of the Dreaming; he is visibly more gentle and kind, even going so far as to pet the Hippogriff, something Morpheus never did. Furthermore, he has been kind and respectful of Matthew's boundaries, as Matthew felt somewhat uncomfortable having to serve a new aspect of the Dreaming.

Appearance
When he was mortal, Daniel had the appearance of a human baby with light blond hair. He wore a pink shirt and green overalls. After his ascension as the new Lord of Dreams, he became almost identical to Morpheus, but his hair was completely white. It was also observed that Daniel, as Dream, appears younger than in his previous incarnation, seeming to be between 18 and 30 years old, instead of just over 30. He wears white clothes and has the emerald dreamstone around his neck.

Incarnation
After the destruction of Dream by the Benevolent Ones, Morpheus' essence was drawn to Daniel, who then became the new Lord of Dreams. Daniel chose to forgive Lyta for her role in these events, rightly acknowledging how she had been manipulated. Much later, Daniel rescued the souls of his mortal parents, Hector and Lyta, from a painful death caused by the Spectre's destruction of magic during the "Infinite Crisis".

He also forgave Alex Burgess and freed him from the curse imposed by Morpheus, allowing him to awaken in peace.

About a year later, Daniel made his first real contact with the inhabitants of the Dreaming when he visited the House of Secrets in his dreams and met Cain, Abel, Matthew, Eve, Gregory, and Goldie. [2]

When Loki and Puck kidnapped Daniel, they triggered events that would have far-reaching consequences for the Lord of Dreams. The night after her son's disappearance, Lyta encountered the Furies in a dream. The Furies revealed some details about Daniel's disappearance, and in the following days, Lyta suffered a nervous breakdown. She concluded that Morpheus had taken her son. Lyta embarked on a journey through the Dreaming, where she encountered the Furies again. She then asked them to destroy the Lord of Dreams for taking her son. Lyta made a pact to kill Morpheus for the murder of his own son and was possessed by the power of the Kindly Ones. Using these powers, Lyta unleashed a wave of destruction across the Dreaming.

However, Morpheus sent Matthew and the newly recreated Corinthian to locate the boy, and they took him to Dream's palace. Soon after, Lyta arrived, determined to kill Morpheus. But when she found Daniel still alive, she reconsidered and returned to the Furies to cancel the agreement. The Furies, however, said that once asked to avenge a blood debt, there was no going back.

Knowing that the confrontation would result in his destruction, Dream spoke with young Daniel before going to confront the Kindly Ones and bequeathed the emerald dreamstone to the baby as soon as he departed.

For most of the Sandman series, Daniel was a baby, and his origin dates back to Morpheus's imprisonment by Roderick Burgess. The dream creatures known as Brute and Glob escaped from the Dreaming and imprisoned the spirit of a deceased superhero, Hector Hall, as the Sandman in their own portion of the Dreaming. Hector also dragged his pregnant wife, Lyta, into the Dreaming, where their son remained in a state of virtual stasis for years.

When Morpheus finally escaped captivity and returned to the Dreaming, he learned of Brute and Glob's disappearance. Morpheus recaptured them and condemned them to darkness. He then sent Hector to the realm of the dead and returned Lyta to the world of the living. Before leaving, he informed her that one day he would come to claim her unborn child and advised her to take good care of him until then.

Shortly after the birth of Lyta's son, Morpheus went to see the boy in the waking world. There, he confronted Lyta once more. He told her that her son's name was Daniel.

Also known as
Lord of Dreams
Daniel
Occupation
Lord of Dreams
Species
Human (formerly)
Endless
Status
Alive
Affiliations
Affiliation
The Infinities
Relatives
Hector Hall † (father)
Lyta Hall (mother)
Morpheus (incarnation; predecessor)
Infinite (brothers)