hypnagogic state

American  

noun

Psychology.

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

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Example Sentences

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

From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2016

It was just an image that came to me in a "hypnagogic state between 'waking and sleeping."

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

Its chest rose conspicuously and fell, as if the owl, in its hypnagogic state, had sighed.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

On the descent into New York, he half awak- ened, to a hypnagogic state.

From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Schwartau, Winn