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Mad Hatter (Jervis Tetch) – supervillain from DC Comics based in Gotham City, adversary of Batman.A master hypnotist who is delusional and believes himself to be the incarnation of Cappellaio Matto, A.K.A The Hatter, from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Étienne Eugène Azam; Vladimir Bekhterev; Hippolyte Bernheim; Alfred Binet; James Braid (surgeon) John Milne Bramwell; Jean-Martin Charcot; Émile Coué; John Elliotson
Zolpidem tartrate, a common but potent sedative–hypnotic drug.Used for severe insomnia. Hypnotic (from Greek Hypnos, sleep [1]), or soporific drugs, commonly known as sleeping pills, are a class of (and umbrella term for) psychoactive drugs whose primary function is to induce sleep [2] (or surgical anesthesia [note 1]) and to treat insomnia (sleeplessness).
Bernd Vogel/Getty Images. Benedict is a sturdy and rather old-timey masculine name of Latin origin with a meaning of “blessed.” 26. Ajaz. A perfect fit for a young entrepreneur, this Arabic ...
Edgar Allan Poe, "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" (1845) about a mesmerist who puts a man in a suspended hypnotic state at the moment of death. Ambrose Bierce's story "The Realm of the Unreal" (1890) pivots on the idea of a very long hypnosis. The protagonist is supposed to be able to keep "a peculiarly susceptible subject in the realm of ...
AleksandarNakic/Getty Images. A feminine name of Latin origin that means “dawn” and has ties to the stunning Northern Lights. 2. Luz. This short and pretty name has Portuguese and Spanish ...
Tyler. Another name that exploded in popularity during the 1990s, Tyler is an English name with a literal meaning: "maker of tiles." In the 1990s, just over 262,000 Tylers were born in the United ...
Persons can also learn self-hypnosis, which is the act of administering hypnotic procedures on one's own. If the subject responds to hypnotic suggestions, it is generally inferred that hypnosis has been induced. Many believe that hypnotic responses and experiences are characteristic of a hypnotic state.