hypnagogic
[hip-nuh-goj-ik, -goh-jik]
- of or relating to drowsiness.
- inducing drowsiness.
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Origin of hypnagogic
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Nighttime “visitations” may be chalked up to sleep deprivation, to hypnagogic or hypnopompic hallucinations.
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On the contrary, hypnagogic illusion is, with me, a decided phenomenon.
Metapsychical PhenomenaJ. Maxwell
The first is hypnagogic hallucination, the second coloured audition.
Metapsychical PhenomenaJ. Maxwell
And there are crystal-seers who are not subject to hypnagogic illusions.
Cock Lane and Common-SenseAndrew Lang
These ‘hypnagogic illusions’ Pontus de Tyard described in a pretty sonnet, more than three hundred years ago.
Cock Lane and Common-SenseAndrew Lang
For bad visualisers, on the other hand, the vividness of these hypnagogic pictures may be absolutely a revelation.
Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily DeathFrederick W. H. Myers
hypnagogic
hypnogogic
- psychol of or relating to the state just before one is fully asleepSee also hypnagogic image, hypnopompic
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Word Origin
C19: from French hypnagogique; see hypno-, -agogic
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Word Origin and History for hypnagogic
adj.
1868, from French hypnagogique, from Greek hypnos "sleep" (see somnolence) + agogos "leading" (see act). Etymologically, "inducing sleep," but used mostly with a sense "pertaining to the state of consciousness when falling asleep."
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
hypnagogic
- Inducing sleep; soporific.
- Of or relating to the state of drowsiness preceding sleep.
- Relating to the images or hallucinations sometimes perceived during this state.
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