hypnagogic

Speech parts

1. hypnagogic - Adjective

2. hypnagogic - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Leading to sleep; -- applied to the illusions of one who is half asleep.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

soporific soporiferous somnific somniferous hypnogogic sleepy hypnotize narcotic hypnotic opiate drowsy hypnotist depressant mesmerizing somnolent
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Antonyms

trying unpleasant exciting stimulating frightening frustrating
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Related terms

hypnagogue

Phrases with the word

hypnagogic state hypnagogic hallucinations

Examples

Finnegans Wake is a kind of hypnagogic structure, words reverberating on themselves without pointing to objects...This may be the hallucinatory verbal world within which God speaks. Northrop Frye

This hypnagogic condition. Attention-faculty diminished so that twilight state obtains; world seen merely in symbolic, archetypal aspect, totally confused with unconscious material. Philip K. Dick

No hypnagogic visions greet me on the verge of sleep. Source: Internet

Reed wrote that these are a common type of hypnagogic image and not evidence for telepathic communication. Source: Internet

Some people may also experience hypnagogic hallucinations during this stage. Source: Internet

These hallucinations usually occur in the evenings, but not during drowsiness, as in the case of hypnagogic hallucination. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

hypnaesthesic hypnaesthesis hypnagogia hypnagogic hallucinations hypnagogic jerk hypnagogic state