hypnagogic

[ hip-nuh-goj-ik, -goh-jik ]

/ ˌhɪp nəˈgɒdʒ ɪk, -ˈgoʊ dʒɪk /

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adjective

of or relating to drowsiness.

inducing drowsiness.

Nearby words

hyphenic, hyphenize, hyphidrosis, hyphopodium, hyphy, hypnagogic, hypnagogic image, hypnagogic state, hypnagogue, hypnapagogic, hypnesthesia

Origin of hypnagogic

1885–90; < French hypnagogique; see hypn(o)-, -agogue, -ic

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Examples from the Web for hypnagogic

Nighttime “visitations” may be chalked up to sleep deprivation, to hypnagogic or hypnopompic hallucinations.
A Night with The Conjuring’s Ed & Lorraine Warren|Stefan Beck|August 18, 2013|DAILY BEAST
These ‘hypnagogic illusions’ Pontus de Tyard described in a pretty sonnet, more than three hundred years ago.
Cock Lane and Common-Sense|Andrew Lang
And there are crystal-seers who are not subject to hypnagogic illusions.
Cock Lane and Common-Sense|Andrew Lang
On the contrary, hypnagogic illusion is, with me, a decided phenomenon.
Metapsychical Phenomena|J. Maxwell

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 Death|Frederick W. H. Myers
The experience of hypnagogic illusions also seems far more rare than ordinary dreaming in sleep.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7|Various

British Dictionary definitions for hypnagogic

hypnagogic

hypnogogic

/ (ˌhɪpnəˈɡɒdʒɪk) /

adjective

psychol of or relating to the state just before one is fully asleepSee also hypnagogic image, hypnopompic

Word Origin for hypnagogic

C19: from French hypnagogique; see hypno-, -agogic

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Medicine definitions for hypnagogic

hypnagogic

adj.

Inducing sleep; soporific.

Of or relating to the state of drowsiness preceding sleep.

Relating to the images or hallucinations sometimes perceived during this state.