hypnagogic
- of or relating to drowsiness.
- inducing drowsiness.
Origin of hypnagogic
Related Words for hypnagogic
surreal, hypnagogic, hypnotic, narcotic, somnolent, soporific, somniferous, soporiferousExamples from the Web for hypnagogic
Contemporary Examples of hypnagogic
Nighttime “visitations” may be chalked up to sleep deprivation, to hypnagogic or hypnopompic hallucinations.
Historical Examples of hypnagogic
The first is hypnagogic hallucination, the second coloured audition.
Metapsychical PhenomenaJ. Maxwell
On the contrary, hypnagogic illusion is, with me, a decided phenomenon.
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
Word Origin for hypnagogic
Word Origin and History for hypnagogic
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."
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.