Usage examples (24)

• I always hear voices in my head when I'm lying in bed at home ready to sleep, in what I think is called the hypnogogic state.
• I also watch brilliant mutating spectacles on my closed eyelids, so-called hypnogogic hallucinations, that usher me into sleep.
• We are told to pay heed to the “interval between the waking-state and the sleeping-state,” the twilight states of mind psychology calls hypnogogic and hypnopompic.
• This is similar to the "hypnogogic" state experienced just prior to sleep, and the first thing in the morning.