Sandman and the Game with Lucifer - Existential Metabolism in Deep Sleep (N3)

I have faced disputes that cannot be won by strength, but only by imagination.
Games where every word opens a universe, and every answer carries the weight of destiny.
When I watch Morpheus play with Lucifer in Sandman, I feel this tension: it is not just a contest of power, but an existential battle where what is at stake is the very possibility of being.

The Original Paradigm: Conflict as Metabolism

For Indigenous peoples, conflict was not annihilation but existential metabolism.
The encounter of opposites — hunter and prey, night and day, life and limit — served to regulate flows, never to extinguish one side.
The game between Morpheus and Lucifer can be seen through this lens: a symbolic confrontation that reorganizes belonging, allowing each force to recognize its place in balance.

The avatar Olmeca reminds us: “Conflict is not destruction. It is digestion: transforming raw forces into new ways of being.”

The Old World’s Domestication

The Old World domesticated conflict as war and domination.

• In religions, “good versus evil” became a narrative of exclusion.
  
  

• In states, the enemy justified massacres and empires.
  
  

• In culture, play lost its ritual character and became a battlefield of annihilation.
  
  

In Sandman, the imaginative duel with Lucifer breaks this domestication. There is no physical destruction, but a dispute of ways of being — where Morpheus prevails not through force but through the symbolic metabolism of the human condition: the dream that persists even at the limit.

Sleep Science and Evidence

This game can be associated with deep sleep N3, the phase of existential metabolism:

• EEG shows slow delta waves, essential for synaptic and energy restoration.
  
  

• The body releases growth hormone and repairs tissues, maintaining vital balance.
  
  

• Neuroscience research demonstrates that N3 is crucial for synaptic homeostasis: “disconnecting” unnecessary connections and preserving the fundamental ones.
  
  

Like the duel with Lucifer, N3 is not spectacle but digestion: a silent process where consciousness selects what remains and what must dissolve.

Zone 1, Zone 2, and Zone 3

• Zone 1: conflict is reduced to brute force, immediate annihilation.
  
  

• Zone 2: conflict is metabolized as reorganization, enabling renewal of being.
  
  

• Zone 3: conflict is hijacked and used as a mechanism of control, fueling cycles of domination.
  
  

The duel between Morpheus and Lucifer reveals the power of Zone 2: conflict as symbolic digestion, regulating and renewing existence.

Synthesis

The game with Lucifer in Sandman is more than fantasy: it is a metaphor of existential metabolism.

• In original paradigms, conflict was regulation, not destruction.
  
  

• In the Old World, it was domesticated as war and power.
  
  

• In science, deep sleep N3 shows how the brain metabolizes energy and memory to restore being.
  
  

• In our framework, the duel is tensional digestion: transformation necessary for consciousness to continue.
  
  

Or, as the avatar Olmeca concludes:
“Conflict is digestion: it does not eliminate, it transforms. This is how life dreams of remaining.”

Suggested References:

• Graeber, D. & Wengrow, D. (2021). The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity.
  
  

• Tononi, G. & Cirelli, C. (2014). Sleep and the Price of Plasticity: From Synaptic and Cellular Homeostasis to Memory Consolidation and Integration. Neuron.
  
  

• Iber, C. et al. (2007). The AASM Manual for the Scoring of Sleep and Associated Events.
  
  

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