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

When the hypnagogic lullabies of Julee Cruise started leaking out of David Lynch’s metaphysical soap opera “Twin Peaks” in 1990, the border between make-believe and the real world felt more porous than usual.

From Washington Post • Jun. 13, 2022

“This study gives us simultaneous insight into consciousness and creativity,” says Adam Haar Horowitz of MIT’s Media Lab, who has devised technology to interact with hypnagogic states, but did not collaborate with Oudiette’s team.

From Scientific American • Dec. 9, 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