hypnagogic

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Most people shift by entering some sort of meditative state, or a hypnagogic one — that place between sleep and wakefulness that occurs naturally as we drift off each night.

From Washington Post

Doctors told Pujols he was experiencing hypnagogic hallucinations — a term for imagined perceptions that occur as sleep sets in — and said they were caused by sleep deprivation and trauma.

From Seattle Times

Doctors told Pujols he was experiencing hypnagogic hallucinations - a term for imagined perceptions that occur as sleep sets in - and said they were caused by sleep deprivation and trauma.

From Washington Times

In August 2009, a month after the original Carles post, the Wire’s David Keenan coined the term “hypnagogic pop” to describe a new wave of psychedelia growing out of the American noise scene.

From The Guardian

"We have found that in the subjects we tested, those words reliably entered the hypnagogic dreams as dream content," said Mr Horowitz.

From BBC