hypnagogia

A feature that hypnagogia shares with other stages of sleep is amnesia.

The hero suffers from hypnagogia, a rare medical disorder.

His recent series 'Hypnagogia" has received international recognition.

In this article hypnagogia will be used in the broader sense, unless otherwise stated or implied.

Physiological studies have tended to concentrate on hypnagogia in the strict sense of spontaneous sleep onset experiences.

This is usually called Hypnagogia.

The key to these techniques is recognizing the hypnagogia stage, which is within the border of being awake and being sleep.

The involuntary narrative, hypnagogia and the Dreamachine, trigger what is already in the individual by referring to his or her own past history.

The compositions stemmed from Steve Roach's contemplation of hypnagogia and self-exploration.

Recent publications include Hypnagogia, and Barely Imagined Beings (an essay),.

Some times on my way of to sleep in hypnagogia i can remember all of the dreams ive ever had.

Terms related to semi-consciousness include: awakening, implicit memory, subliminal messages, trances, hypnagogia, and hypnosis.

Hypnagogia: the Unique State of Consciousness Between Wakefulness and Sleep.

Naturally, amnesia contributes to the difficulty of studying hypnagogia, as does the typically fleeting nature of hypnagogic experiences.

"Deep Chamber" on Hybrids (Hypnagogia, 1998)

Other scientists have also linked OBEs to cases of hypnagogia and sleep paralysis (cataplexy).

Numerous contestants suffered from both hypnagogia and hypnopompia (both essentially dreaming while awake, normally just prior to or after sleep).

Hypnagogia is the experience of the transitional states to and from sleep: the hypnagogic and the hypnopompic states of consciousness.

It has been suggested that hypnagogia and REM sleep help in the consolidation of semantic memory, but the evidence for this has been disputed.

Paul McCartney discovered the tune for the song "Yesterday" in a dream and was inspired to write "Yellow Submarine" during hypnagogia.

To Get Beyond Nihilism By Revaluing Combat, CD-R (Hypnagogia, 2005)

Sometimes the word hypnagogia is used in a restricted sense to refer to the onset of sleep, and contrasted with hypnopompia, Frederic Myers's term for waking up.

However, hypnagogia is also regularly employed in a more general sense that covers both falling asleep and waking up, and Havelock Ellis questioned the need for separate terms.

Hypnagogia may involve a "loosening of ego boundaries ... openness, sensitivity, internalization-subjectification of the physical and mental environment (empathy) and diffuse-absorbed attention."

Taste, smell and thermoception sensations in hypnagogia have all been reported, as well as touch sensations (including those kinds classed as paraesthesia or formication).