Hypnos

"In Greek mythology, Hypnos, also spelled Hypnus, is the personification of sleep; the Roman equivalent is known as Somnus. His name is the origin of the word hypnosis. Pausanias wrote that Hypnos was the dearest friend of the Muses." [Hypnos, Wikipedia]

The Hypnos narrator may have encountered the god Hypnos. As a result of experiments with drug-enhanced reams, the narrator seems to have hallucinated a companion who looked like himself at a younger age. In some kind of dream-vision, this companion evidently witnessed something mind-blasting. Later, it seemed that this companion was haunted and ultimately killed by a power emanating from the constellation Corona Borealis. The narrator sculpted a portrait of his companion and labeled it with the name Hypnos in Greek letters. [HPL Hypnos (online text)] One interpretation could be that Hypnos dwells in Corona Borealis and was influencing the narrator's dreams from there.

Long after viewing the Lamp of Alhazred, Ward Phillips (1) wrote of Hypnos. [AWD Lamp (online text)]

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