hallucinatory state

As Den-Mate, singer-songwriter Jules Hale named her new “Hypnagogia” EP after the hallucinatory state that our brains experience as we drift from wakefulness to dreamland — and her wide-armed embrace of synthesizers play a metaphorical role in that proposition, generating unreal sounds that shake real air.

Hardwick’s own great passion was reading: in her Paris Review interview, she said that “in reading certain works, not all works, I do sometimes enter a sort of hallucinatory state and I think I see undercurrents and light in dark places about the imagined emotions and actions.”

“I barely made it from the desk to the bed, where I lay curled up in a hallucinatory state for the next eight hours.”

I barely made it from the desk to the bed, where I lay curled up in a hallucinatory state for the next eight hours.

And New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd famously wrote in June of trying a marijuana-infused candy bar, after which she "lay curled up in a hallucinatory state for the next eight hours."