Meaning of hypnagogic | Babel Free

Definitions

1. That induces sleep; soporific, somniferous.
2. That accompanies falling asleep; especially, pertaining to the semi-conscious period immediately preceding sleep.

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Examples

“But if we are in the right mood, a second of such lethargy is enough to make⟳ a hypnagogic [translating hypnagogische] hallucination appear⟳, after which perhaps we reawaken, until the oft-repeated performance is brought to an end⟳ by sleep⟳.”

“Very quickly it would come⟳ to seem to Lionel Hoffmann that the remainder of his life, all that was not Siri, was of little more substance than those hypnagogic images that flash⟳ against our eyelids when, in a state of exhaustion, we begin⟳ to sink⟳ into sleep⟳.”

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