Opening his "physical eyes", the narrator wakes up and awaits the return of his friend, who awakes severely shaken and reticent, warning only that they must avoid sleep at all cost. 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. The narrator is frightened by the prospect and disavows such hubris to the reader. Over time, the narrator's companion begins to speak of using their ability to transcend into the unknown as a way to rule the universe (via a set of drugs).
At night they would commence their adventures, exploring worlds beyond human comprehension.
From 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." In the eyes of the stranger, he witnessed important knowledge of the mysteries he always sought to learn. 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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