hypnagogic
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My main experience of it really was in the hypnagogic hallucinations.
From Salon • Feb. 6, 2024
Released in 2009, his hypnagogic pop opus “Psychic Chasms” brought splashes of technicolor to the lo-fi psychedelia of chillwave: an electronic micro-genre he pioneered along with American indie acts Washed Out and Toro y Moi.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2023
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.
From Scientific American • Dec. 9, 2021
The programme, which attempts to explain the unexplained, considered several plausible theories for Ken's recollections, such as sleep paralysis or waking dreams known as hypnagogic hallucinations.
From BBC • Nov. 21, 2021
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
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