Synonyms for hypnagogic

Grammar : Adj

Spell : hip-nuh-goj-ik, -goh-jik

Phonetic Transcription : ˌhɪp nəˈgɒdʒ ɪk, -ˈgoʊ dʒɪk

Définition of hypnagogic

Origin : 1868, from French hypnagogique, from Greek hypnos "sleep" (see somnolence) + agogos "leading" (see act). Etymologically, "inducing sleep," but used mostly with a sense "pertaining to the state of consciousness when falling asleep."

As in dreamlike : adj resembling a dream
As in sleep-inducing : adj putting to sleep

Example sentences :

The first is hypnagogic hallucination, the second coloured audition.
Extract from : « Metapsychical Phenomena » by J. Maxwell

On the contrary, hypnagogic illusion is, with me, a decided phenomenon.
Extract from : « Metapsychical Phenomena » by J. Maxwell

And there are crystal-seers who are not subject to hypnagogic illusions.
Extract from : « Cock Lane and Common-Sense » by Andrew Lang

These ‘hypnagogic illusions’ Pontus de Tyard described in a pretty sonnet, more than three hundred years ago.
Extract from : « Cock Lane and Common-Sense » by Andrew Lang

For bad visualisers, on the other hand, the vividness of these hypnagogic pictures may be absolutely a revelation.
Extract from : « Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death » by Frederick W. H. Myers

In these respects, and in the awakeness of the scryer, crystal pictures differ from hypnagogic illusions.
Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 » by Various

The experience of hypnagogic illusions also seems far more rare than ordinary dreaming in sleep.
Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 » by Various

Antonyms for hypnagogic

real
waking

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