In the early 19th century, Abbé Faria introduced oriental hypnosis to Paris.

Hypnosis and sleep restriction have been used in some cases to good effect.

Hypnotic science was also used in the nineteenth century to distinguish the scientific study of hypnotism from witchcraft or religious transcendentalism.

Similarly, the terms astronomical science and hypnotic science mostly died out as the twentieth century progressed, perhaps because belief in the occult waned in respectable society.