hypnogogic

• “We are told to pay heed to the “interval between the waking-state and the sleeping-state,” the twilight states of mind psychology calls hypnogogic and hypnopompic.”

  Simon & Schuster: Experiencing the Next World Now

• “I always hear voices in my head when I'm lying in bed at home ready to sleep, in what I think is called the hypnogogic state.”

  Ansuz - mskala's home page » Ansuz

• “I also watch brilliant mutating spectacles on my closed eyelids, so-called hypnogogic hallucinations, that usher me into sleep.”

  NYT > Home Page

• “This is similar to the "hypnogogic" state experienced just prior to sleep, and the first thing in the morning.”

  Turn Writer's Blocks Into Stepping Stones

• “The audio is sure to give the venue's newly upgraded sound system a thorough breaking-in, while the images transport with a hypnogogic flow of abstract patterns conjured through digital manipulations of a dozen shots of what looks like crumpled aluminum foil.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Sad Sacks and Barrels of Laughs

• “I had a hypnogogic paralyzed dream last winter, while staying at the family cabin in the Adrirondaks.”

  Making Light: Open thread 136

• “I realized it was a hypnogogic dream inside the dream.”

  Making Light: Open thread 136

• “It started at four this morning when I was jolted awake by a particularly hideous hypnogogic hallucination.”

  Actually, Today Is Pretty Typical, So Far

• “Moreover, you need to explain how people like me exist who do not believe in God and yet also experience awe, transcendence, and even rare amazing experiences like hypnogogic dreaming in my case that would certainly be explained by many religious people as religious "miracles".”

  Archive 2007-12-01

• “Interesting thing about that: the hypnogogic state is alive, man, and I can hear my subconscious roaring at me, all the reasons why I should just roll over and go back to bed…”

  Archive 2007-03-01

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