What is "hypnogogic"

Usage examples of "hypnogogic".

Don Stanley had a momentary hypnogogic vision of an enormous crossbow with a cord capable of being stretched back a mile.

For an instant she became the hypnogogic ape, the shape-changer come to mock at him, so unexpected was the sight of her in her white dress.

His theory of the hypnogogic ape was too instinctive to express, even though the desire to express it had made him light-headed and confused.

When Rael finally raised his head, it was to see the hypnogogic ape standing erect upon the opposite beach.

This was the lair of the hypnogogic ape, from whom all men and women had inherited that piece of darkness at their core.

All around him, the hypnogogic ape was chattering in the bush just out of earshot.

A dim gray hint of morning in the rectangle of my window cannot pale the hypnogogic phantoms that dance in the dark corners of my room, mocking me for the stupid account I have written.

But he was already beginning to visualize into hypnogogic revery and sleep was coming.

At one point in her life--before she recognized the chaos as a locus to which she would always be drawn--she assumed that the fractures were the result of her accessing hypnogogic images with unusual frequency, perhaps as a consequence of certain neurons firing by mistake when she was awake instead of en route to REM sleep.

He was able to induce hypnogogic hallucinations of remarkable verisimilitude, but they seemed no more real to him than so many line drawings.

Varka being literally caught in a hypnogogic state between desirable sleep and undesirable reality.