hypnagogic
of or relating to drowsiness.
inducing drowsiness.
Origin of hypnagogic
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How to use hypnagogic in a sentence
This stage, dubbed “hypnagogic,” is what intrigued Oudiette.
The ‘Twilight Zone’ Before Deep Sleep Could Boost Your Creativity | Shelly Fan | December 14, 2021 | Singularity HubNighttime “visitations” may be chalked up to sleep deprivation, to hypnagogic or hypnopompic hallucinations.
On the contrary, hypnagogic illusion is, with me, a decided phenomenon.
Metapsychical Phenomena | J. MaxwellThe first is hypnagogic hallucination, the second coloured audition.
Metapsychical Phenomena | J. MaxwellIn half-waking states these manifestations are relatively frequent in the so-called hypnagogic hallucinations.
Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology | C. G. Jung
These ‘hypnagogic illusions’ Pontus de Tyard described in a pretty sonnet, more than three hundred years ago.
Cock Lane and Common-Sense | Andrew LangThe experience of hypnagogic illusions also seems far more rare than ordinary dreaming in sleep.
British Dictionary definitions for hypnagogic
hypnogogic
/ (ˌhɪpnəˈɡɒdʒɪk) /
psychol of or relating to the state just before one is fully asleep: See also hypnagogic image, hypnopompic
Origin of hypnagogic
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