Definitions
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- adjective Alternative spelling of
hypnagogic .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective sleep inducing
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Examples
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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.
Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004
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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.
Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004
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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.
Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004
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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.
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I also watch brilliant mutating spectacles on my closed eyelids, so-called hypnogogic hallucinations, that usher me into sleep.
NYT > Home Page By SIRI HUSTVEDT 2010
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This is similar to the "hypnogogic" state experienced just prior to sleep, and the first thing in the morning.
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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.
Sad Sacks and Barrels of Laughs Steve Dollar 2012
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I had a hypnogogic paralyzed dream last winter, while staying at the family cabin in the Adrirondaks.
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I realized it was a hypnogogic dream inside the dream.
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It started at four this morning when I was jolted awake by a particularly hideous hypnogogic hallucination.
Actually, Today Is Pretty Typical, So Far Sean Craven 2009
brtom commented on the word hypnogogic
...and lingering hypnogogic for sleep
no more cling-clanging bells
to awaken
suzanne, suzannagig jig
December 20, 2006
qroqqa commented on the word hypnogogic
Could I just stick my etymological oar in here (wearing my etymologist's boater) and point out that the roots are hypn- "sleep" and ag- "lead", so the word should be formed hypn-agog-ic. There is no place for a linking vowel -o-. The spelling 'hypnagogic' is much preferable.
September 8, 2008