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"Hypnos" is a first-person narrative, written from the perspective of an unnamed character living in Kent and later London, England.The narrator writes that he fears sleep, and is resolved to write his story down lest it drive him further mad, regardless of what people think after reading it.
Hypnos (left) and Thanatos (right) carry the body of Sarpedon while Hermes watches, Euphronios Krater, an Attic red-figure calyx-krater, c. 515–510 BC [1]. In Greek mythology, Hypnos (/ ˈ h ɪ p n ɒ s /; Ancient Greek: Ὕπνος, 'sleep'), [2] also spelled Hypnus, is the personification of sleep.
Donald K. Hartman, The Hypno-Ripper: Or, Jack the Hypnotically Controlled Ripper; Containing Two Victorian Era Tales Dealing with Jack the Ripper and Hypnotism (2021) Donald K. Hartman, The Hypnotic Tales of Rafael Sabatini (2024) Death and hypnosis are intertwined in two novelettes by Rafael Sabatini
Hypno - Pokémon; Hypno-Hustler – Marvel Comics; Hypnota – DC Comics; Hypnotia – Marvel Comics; Jafar – Disney's Aladdin (1992) Jean-Claude – in books by Laurell K. Hamilton; Jose Baden, "The First Officer", from the survivor faction of Identity V. Kaa – The Jungle Book; Karen, one of Crazy Jane's superpowered alters – Doom Patrol
The term hypnosis is derived from the ancient Greek ὑπνος hypnos, "sleep", and the suffix-ωσις -osis, or from ὑπνόω hypnoō, "put to sleep" (stem of aorist hypnōs-) and the suffix -is. [22] [23] These words were popularised in English by the Scottish surgeon James Braid (to whom they are sometimes wrongly attributed) around 1841.
The word hypnagogia is sometimes used in a restricted sense to refer to the onset of sleep, and contrasted with hypnopompia, Frederic Myers's term for waking up. [2] However, hypnagogia is also regularly employed in a more general sense that covers both falling asleep and waking up.
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Hypnopompia (also known as hypnopompic state) is the state of consciousness leading out of sleep, a term coined by the psychical researcher Frederic Myers.Its mirror is the hypnagogic state at sleep onset; though often conflated, the two states are not identical and have a different phenomenological character.