Ergebnis für "Hypnos" in Psychologie

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. The narrator, a sculptor, recounts meeting a mysterious man in a railway station. 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.

When a new professor arrives at UCLA, students begin to change—abandoning their goals, adopting new identities, and even falling in love with their best friend. Sarah Whitman, an ambitious journalism student, starts to suspect something sinister is at play when her friends undergo bizarre personality shifts—one suddenly becomes a Cockney-accented kleptomaniac, another trades flannel for heels and professes a passionate love for Sarah herself. At the center of it all is Dr. Hypnos—a charming, hypnotic figure whose velvet voice and unsettling influence seem too powerful to be coincidence.