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Gideon is Rumple and Belle's son.

Gideon was named after Belle's favorite book's hero character. You know how someone's named after their grandfather or a celebrity. Doesn't mean that their mother gaved birth to a celebrity, but someone named after them.

Morpheus is a deity, but Belle's son isn't Morpheus. He was just pretending to be. We have never seen the real Morpheus on the show.

Now, why did an unborn child know about the Greek Gods and stuff? Who knows. Anything else like why he was an adult in the dream is probably because "plot" or to surprise the audience with a twist.