Did the thought of controlling your sleep ever crossed your mind? Just imagine what if you could control your sleeping patterns, influence others sleep or dreams? This fascinating concept clearly indicates the superpower Hypnokinesis. With this power you can not only control your own sleep but you can also manipulate the sleeping patterns of your opponent just like the iconic anime characters do!
Hypnokinesis is the physic ability of manipulating the sleeping patterns and dreams of others. The superpower reveals the deep interconnection between the mind and body, and how by controlling the sleeping patterns one can improve the physical and mental health effectively.
Wait! Are you confusing Hypnokinesis with dream manipulation or hypnotization? Well, there is a big difference among them. Let’s learn about Hypnokinesis in detail to learn about this superpower.
Hypnokinesis Superpower – An Overview
Derived from two Greek words ‘Hypno’ and ‘Kinesis’ that mean ‘sleep’ and ‘motion’, the word Hypnokinesis means manipulating the sleeping patterns and dream allowance. This superpower not only allows you to put anyone to sleep or control their dreams, but also includes various aspects related to sleep. This includes putting someone to instantaneous sleep, or permanent insomnia which can result into death. Anyone with this superpower can also remove sleep from the life of others making them completely tired all day.
What are the Other Names of Hypnokinesis Superpower?
Some other popular names of Hypnokinesis are:
- Narcokinesis
- Sleep Manipulation/ Sleep Control
- Somnokinesis/ Somnikinesis
What are the Capabilities of Hypnokinesis?
As mentioned in the overview of Hypnokinesis, this superpower allows the user to manipulate every aspect related with sleep. No doubt, this might not appear to be a strong power, the abilities are still capable of either creating or damaging someone’s sleep, or even life. Here is a brief explanation of what the users of this power can do.
Humans spend nearly one third of their lives in sleeping. Whether they are willing or not, they are sure to sleep and give their body required rest to function properly. And this fact makes Hypnokinesis very powerful. This means, the superpower can be used on anyone, and there is no escape from it. As Hypnosis centers dreams, the users of this power can also make changes in the dreams of other people.
No doubt, this power can make amazing changes in the sleeping patterns and dreams, the user cannot use this power on himself. The user needs to stay awake for using the power, and hence, the only way he can use the power on himself is for sleeping purpose. On the other hand, manipulating the dreams of other people can be helpful in understanding the dreams of your own. In this way, the user can easily understand his dreams and become conscious of his dreams.
Again, it should be noted here that manipulating dreams here includes both good and bad dreams. The superpower can be used to create nightmares for the opponent, and decide the time span they would remain in the dream. This also includes forcing the opponents to have sensual dreams.
Sometimes, Hypnokinesis is also used to cause insomnia in people. This is carried out by manipulating the individual and forcing him not to sleep no matter whatever happens. Insomnia is a crucial illness, and it has an adverse impact on the human lives, even causing death. Hence, it is advised not to use this power on anyone.
Overall, it can be concluded that Hypnokinesis is a powerful power with various good and bad capabilities.
Hypnokinesis – Similar Abilities
Although, Hypnokinesis is different from dream manipulation and other similar superpowers, it still has certain similar abilities with certain of the superpowers. Here is the list to go through.
- Foresight and precognitive dreaming can be used along with Hypnokinesis to learn about the future while sleeping
- Dream manipulation can be used along for controlling the dreams
- Psychokinesis, human omnipotence, and human manipulation, all these have the power to affect the sleep and lead to wakefulness, fatigue, and exhausted state
- Sleep inducing can be used along to help others sleep easily
- Oneiric creation helps in generating beings and objects from someone’s dreams
- Lullaby is often used for helping people sleep smoothly
- Lucid dreaming helps in controlling the dreams of people
- Oneiric reality manipulation helps in controlling the reality by dreaming different things
- Dream walking allows people to enter in the dreams of others
Hypnokinesis – Known Users
Want to know who are the popular users of Hypnokinesis? Scroll down for the list.
- Hypnos from Greco-Roman mythology
- Hecate (using a sleep spell)
- Morpheus
- Persephone (through Stygian sleep)
- Apollo
- Lupa
- Hades
- Kronos
- Hypnos’ Cabin members including Clovis
- Hecate’s Cabin members (using a sleep spell)
- Nico di Angelo
- King Cotton
- Slender man from Creepypasta
- Pow from Canimals
- Nemuinas from Ben 10
- The Sleep Card by Cardcaptor Sakura
- Mantis from Marvel Cinematic Universe
- Kris, Susie, and Ralsei from Deltarune
- Vriska Serket from Homestuck
- Nightmare by Ghost Sweeper Mikami
- Nova Artino from Renegades
- Sleepygirl from Hamak
- Sanderson Mansnoozie from Rise of the Guardians
- Sian from Rave Master
- Classic Doctor Strange by Marvels comics
- God of Stories Loki by Marvels Comics
- Yui Kurata by Trinity Seven
- Steve from The Life and Times of Juniper Lee
What are the limitations of Hypnokinesis?
Just as there are certain limitations to every power, there are particular limitations while using Hypnokinesis. Let’s take a detailed view on all.
- Hypnokinesis surely helps in manipulating the sleeping patterns in various ways, the user is still limited to use this superpower to a certain extent. This is because the user gets drained while using the power and hence, cannot hold it for long hours.
- Sleep manipulation can be used to force others to sleep, feel unconscious, fatigue, drowsy, etc. It can help in communicating through dreams and trap people through dreams as well. But the user of the power cannot give his own independent dreams to the opponent.
- While practicing the pwer, both the victim and the user might awake due to external influences or forces like alarm clocks, someone yelling, etc.
Hypnokinesis – Applications
Here is the list of Hypnokinesis applications:
- Dream manipulation
- Daydream manipulation
- Astral projection while sleeping
- Awakening
- Hibernation
- Mental projection
- Insomnia inducement
- Nightmare manipulation
- Personal Sleep
- Omni-sleep inducement
- Replenishment
- Sleep Negation
- Sleep inducement
- Subconscious manipulation
- Sleep paralysis inducement
What are the different techniques of Hypnokinesis?
The list of different techniques used to perform this power include:
- Sleep respawn
- Sleep combat
- Immortal sleep
-
Healing coma
Conclusion
Hypnokinesis, henceforth is a powerful ability that allows the user to manipulate the sleeping patterns of others and influence their sleep as well. By doing so, users can surely move into the mysterious directions of other’s minds and unlock their potentials. The users can either use this superpower and help others fall asleep with sleeping issues, or awake people for good or bad. The power if used wisely can help in solving sleeping disorders like insomnia, or lead to dangerous results when used for negative purpose.