hypnagogic
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His bubbling synth creations have been associated with so many microgenres, including hypnagogic pop, vaporwave and plunderphonic, that he’s come to invent some of his own, like his slowed-down, mantra-adjacent “eccojams.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2025
My main experience of it really was in the hypnagogic hallucinations.
From Salon • Feb. 6, 2024
People who experience sleep paralysis also will often report hypnagogic hallucinations, or waking up and seeing something from their dream in their bedroom, Barrett said.
From Washington Post • Dec. 30, 2021
The findings imply that if we can harness that liminal haze between sleep and wakefulness—known as a hypnagogic state—we might recall our bright ideas more easily.
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
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