hypnagogic state

noun

, Psychology.

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

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Subjects were also allowed to fall asleep in an fMRI machine, then were awakened during the hypnagogic state and asked what images they had been seeing in their half-dreams.

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