hypnogogic
- adjective
- /hɪpˈnɒɡɪk/
- Specialized
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hipnagógico
- For the first five years of your life, you're in a hypnogogic trance that your brain functions are in Theta EEG, which is hypnosis.
Examples
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And that night, as he fell asleep, the calculations returned in a dream or a hypnogogic vision: it would take two thousand Vietnam Memorials to list the century's war dead.
Fiction book (1991) -
For the first five years of your life, you're in a hypnogogic trance that your brain functions are in Theta EEG, which is hypnosis.
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Do nothing special, or attend to your koan with every fiber of your being. Without the living example, it's hard to conceive that there is a hypnogogic state where nonvolitive action can take place in concert with past, present, and future, or that such a state is an everyday occurrence as the place of awareness and the ability to feel and respond to the necessity of breath.
Blog text (8) -
The music played a hypnogogic melody that lulled her into a deep trance as she began to drift off to sleep.
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He often experiences hypnogogic images just before falling asleep, making it difficult to distinguish between reality and dreams.
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During the hypnogogic phase, he felt as if he was floating, caught between consciousness and slumber.
Synonyms
142
1.0
Feeling very tired and wanting to close your eyes
22
2.7
Feeling sleepy and not fully awake, often because you are tired or bored
3
8.6
Making you feel sleepy
2
8.4
Feeling sleepy or making you want to sleep
1
9.9
Happening just before you fall asleep
1
4.3
Sleepy and likely to fall asleep
1
4.6
Feeling sleepy or making you want to sleep
1
5.3
Very tired and unable to keep your eyes open
Causes someone to sleep or feel very sleepy
Making someone feel very sleepy
Making someone feel sleepy or fall asleep
Calm and quiet in a way that makes you feel sleepy
A calm, quiet mood that makes you feel sleepy
Having a sleepy, calm feeling that makes you relax
Very quiet and still, as when someone is resting deeply
A state like sleep when a person is very relaxed and responsive
How Sleepy
Surface Forms
Morphology
hypnogogic = hypnotic (semi-transparent) = hypno + agogic
Built from combining forms meaning 'sleep' (hypno-) and 'leading' (-agogic); the parts are etymologically informative but not widely known to learners.
Etymology
Hypnogogic comes from Greek parts: hypno- meaning 'sleep' and -agogic meaning 'leading to', the same hypno- you see in hypnosis, so it literally means 'leading into sleep' and explains the strange images or feelings you get just before you fall asleep.