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View synonyms for hypnagogic
hypnagogic
[ hip-nuh-goj-ik, -goh-jik ]
adjective
- of or relating to drowsiness.
- inducing drowsiness.
hypnagogic
/ ˌhɪpnəˈɡɒdʒɪk /
adjective
- psychol of or relating to the state just before one is fully asleep See also hypnagogic image hypnopompic
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hypnagogic1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hypnagogic1
C19: from French hypnagogique; see hypno-, -agogic
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Example Sentences
Nighttime “visitations” may be chalked up to sleep deprivation, to hypnagogic or hypnopompic hallucinations.
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On the contrary, hypnagogic illusion is, with me, a decided phenomenon.
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The first is hypnagogic hallucination, the second coloured audition.
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In half-waking states these manifestations are relatively frequent in the so-called hypnagogic hallucinations.
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These ‘hypnagogic illusions’ Pontus de Tyard described in a pretty sonnet, more than three hundred years ago.
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The experience of hypnagogic illusions also seems far more rare than ordinary dreaming in sleep.
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