syberdelic wrote:entheogenic-gnosis wrote:Quote:Hypnagogia is the experience of the transitional state from wakefulness to sleep: the hypnagogic state of consciousness, during the onset of sleep. Mental phenomena that occur during this "threshold consciousness" phase include lucid thought, lucid dreaming, hallucinations, and sleep paralysis. -Wikipedia
-eg
I wouldn't completely discount this theory, but I experienced no dreaming, lucid or otherwise, and no sleep paralysis.
I have experienced the hypnagogic state before and this felt very different. It was much more like a psychedelic experience. In the hypnagogic state, my hallucinations are more like a poorly drawn version of reality whereas this was more colorful geometric patterns dancing on my eye-lids and some euphoric tranquility.
Hypnagogia is the experience of the transitional state from wakefulness to sleep -Wikipedia
Quote:syberdelic said: Last night, while laying in bed, I felt myself transitioning from awake to asleep.
I see this anecdote as an example of novel Hypnagogia...but that's just my interpretation.
downwardfromzero wrote:Hypnopompia' is the name for the corresponding state experienced during the process of waking. I get this much more readily than hynogogia, maybe because I'm incredibly lazy...
I was using the term in the "more general" sense expressed below:
Quote: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.[1] 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.[2] Indeed, it is not always possible in practice to assign a particular episode of any given phenomenon to one or the other, given that the same kinds of experience occur in both, and that people may drift in and out of sleep. In this article hypnagogia will be used in the broader sense, unless otherwise stated or implied. -Wikipedia
There may have been some confusion regarding this section of the excerpt:
Quote:Mental phenomena that occur during this "threshold consciousness" phase include lucid thought, lucid dreaming, hallucinations, and sleep paralysis. -Wikipedia
This does not mean the phenomena are limited to what's listed, and this does not mean these phenomena are occurring simultaneously. Hypnogogic states can occur without any the phenomena listed. There can be a wide variety of mental states that can occur during the transition states between wakefulness and sleep. I consider any state of novel consciousness occurring between wake and sleep as being hypnogogic.
-eg