Passing through several barriers, eventually the narrator comes to one he cannot cross, though his friend does. Soon the narrator is off on a foray with his friend, travelling through a void that he explains is beyond human sensation. Over time, the narrator's companion begins speaking of using their ability to transcend into the unknown to rule the universe, via a set of drugs, a thought that scares the narrator (who disavows to the reader any such hubris). At night they would commence their adventures, exploring worlds beyond human comprehension.

In the eyes of the stranger he saw the knowledge of the mysteries he always sought to learn.įrom this point on, he would touch his friend and sculpt him daily. The moment the man opened his 'immense, sunken and widely luminous eyes', the narrator knew that the stranger would become his friend-–'the only friend of one who had never possessed a friend before'. The narrator, a sculptor, recounts meeting a mysterious man in a railway station. 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 is a first-person narrative written from the perspective of an unnamed character living in Kent and later London, England.

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