What is "hypnagogic"

Usage examples of "hypnagogic".

So-called difficult children were given additional, hypnagogic treatment, and the education of all children was begun very early.

He cursed out loud, scolding himself for his inability to release the memories: the maelstrom of hypnagogic images superimposed upon all that he saw, the recollections of the accident tearing apart and blending back together again in a blurry mixture of lucid truth and deceptive mirage, the deafening blare of the horns in helpless warning, the walls of the chambers flashing in a fluctuating rhythm to the horns, between glowing red and pitch black, the faces burning and falling off everyone as the radiation surge hit, the crumbling support beams collapsing all about them, his own flesh melting, the blackness closing in.

At night hidden speakers used hypnagogic indoctrination techniques, peaking around three A.

In a hypnagogic state I seem to have contacted one, or possibly two, of Mr.

Beyond was a small room equipped with a couch, a chair, and hypnagogic equipment.

Using nifty hypnagogic techniques, feed it its new biography: here is where you went to school, this is your mother, this is your father, these were your childhood friends, these were your hobbies.

It had swept out and up and back, flying slowly and quietly, turning its wings a drab camouflaged dun, hiding out against the clouds, to pounce now, appearing in a sudden burst of dark colours, a shimmering slick of hypnagogic patterns.

He can make his voice hypnagogic if he wants, keep you totally drunk on it.

I knew these hypnagogic tricks that dreams could do, I knew the demons who come face to face with you on the very margin of sleep.

The hypnagogic rhythms of this sound will soothe me toward slumber and induce the kind of dreaming necessary to shift my body into the Early Pleistocene.

And then he becomes aware that he is perceiving: Some sort of pattern is forming like a hypnagogic scene behind his nonexistent eyelids, a hologram in black light.

She was trying to think, but the thinking kept turning into a kind of dozing, a hypnagogic dreaming.

It is probably more usual for it to take place in the so-called hypnoidal state in which one is awaiting sleep, and it is closely associated with those hypnagogic images which have some of the sensory solidity of hallucinations.

Examining his subjects with reference to their hypnotic sensibility and to such automatisms as hypnagogic hallucinations, odd impulses, religious dreams about the time of their conversion, etc.

The South Vietnamese really only needed pep talks and fine tuning, but the redeemable commies -- Northerners that we thought might be able to influence the diehard Reds back home -- they needed out-and-out conversion and hypnagogic reinforcement.