hypnagogic state

noun

Psychology.

1. the drowsy period between wakefulness and sleep, during which fantasies and hallucinations often occur.

Example Sentences

The findings imply that if we can harness that liminal haze between sleep and wakefulness—known as a hypnagogic state—we might recall our bright ideas more easily.

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Oudiette hopes not only to confirm her findings in future research but also to determine if focusing on our hypnagogic state might help solve real-world tasks and problems by harnessing the creative potential of that liminal period between sleep and wakefulness.

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You should also know that there is something called a hypnagogic state which is the twilight state between sleeping and waking.

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What you can say is that when you look at the photographs, it’s as if you were seeing through the mind’s eye of someone in a hypnagogic state.

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Wilson's dream world is informed by the perspective of the hypnagogic state: the sleep of reason may produce monsters, as Goya thought, but it can also call forth visions.

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