Crossword-Solution: HYPNAGOGIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hypnagogic | a. | Leading to sleep; -- applied to the illusions of one who is half asleep. |
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| of, relating to, or occurring in the period of drowsiness immediately preceding sleep | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with HYPNAGOGIC (5)
The hallucinations produced in this way are called hypnagogic (from its derivation this term is properly applied only to phenomena observed at the instant when we fall asleep, or when we are imperfectly awakened, and not to the period of most perfect repose), and they occur when the subject is not in a condition favorable to sound sleep.
These 'hypnagogic illusions' Pontus de Tyard described in a pretty sonnet, more than three hundred years ago.
This gradually produces the state which has been described by Maury and others as hypnagogic hallucination; that is, the images seem to be real, although the subject is still partly awake, and the voluntary exercise of thought is lost from time to time in this species of incipient chaos.
This intermediate and persistent stage of hypnagogic images serves in every way to explain the physical genesis of involuntary hallucinations.
Now by this symbolism as we observe most clearly in hypnagogic (half dreaming) hallucinations and in dreams, three different groups of objects are represented.
Quotes with HYPNAGOGIC (1)
According to Martindale’s view, as we drift into sleep we pass through: — waking, problem-oriented thought, — realistic fantasy, — autistic fantasy, — reverie, — hypnagogic (falling asleep) states, and — dreaming.