Episodes frequently occur at sleep onset, termed hypnagogic, or while waking up from sleep, termed hypnopompic (Solomonova).    From Wordnik.com.  [Serendip's Exchange -] Reference

In medical parlance, the twitching is called hypnagogic myoclonus (the first word refers to sleep and the second to muscle twitches).    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

Apparently it's called a hypnagogic hallucination (if it happens as you're going to sleep) and a hypnopompic hallucination if it happens as you're waking.    From Wordnik.com.  [WalesOnline - Home] Reference

The swots call it "hypnagogic", the more commercial-minded are calling it "sugary mutant pop".    From Wordnik.com.  [Outer Limits Recordings (No 904)] Reference

It felt like this was the description of a kind of hypnagogic state, one in which reading was like dreaming and dreaming was like creating.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bit of an Experiment « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference

Many people experience this borderland routinely when slipping into sleep -- "hypnagogic" hallucinations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Readthehook.com - Current Articles] Reference

That her granddaughter had been frightened by a hypnagogic image?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incubus]

Colours swirled, ebbing and flowing to the theta rhythms of hypnagogic sleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kobra Manifesto]

I felt like I was in a bad sitcom or was having a bad hypnagogic hallucination.    From Wordnik.com.  [nightnurse Diary Entry] Reference

The opposite are hypnagogic hallucinations, which occur when one is falling asleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]

Zeke turned off the light, and in the shuttered darkness, a hypnagogic spun before him.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Other Worlds]

The density of information overwhelmed the fabric of the matrix, triggering hypnagogic images.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neuromancer]

Oprah says that people should read, so maybe he crams in thirty hypnagogic minutes at bed time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thought for a Thursday: Is It Really “Entertainment” That Needs Defending?] Reference

Me, I love the spaces in between waking and sleeping — the hypnagogic states in which I can wallow and luxuriate.    From Wordnik.com.  [coming out of sleep | clusterflock] Reference

The four most common symptoms are excessive daytime sleepiness, cataplexy, sleep paralysis, and hypnagogic hallucinations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narcolepsy] Reference

And it's in this hypnagogic stage of sleep where Stickgold's current study is attempting to determine how the brain forms dreams.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 16, 2006] Reference

Everything is hypnagogic, chthonian, and super-celestial.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

It was hypnagogic, which means I experienced it before I fell asleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums] Reference

You'll learn about hypnagogic induction, kundalini transcendent chanting, nutmeg.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cleveland Scene] Reference

I eeven some the hypnagogic nalbuphine of regiones but that has hypothesized now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wii-volution]

Do you know what it's like to be in a hypnagogic state and you have sleep paralysis?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicago Reader] Reference

You will notice that we Shamans have been missed out of the interfaith dialogue hypnagogic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

I am not a 'visualizer;' I have infrequent hypnagogic hallucinations, and they are all of the auditory type.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essai sur l'imagination créatrice. English] Reference

It promises to be anything but hypnagogic as can be expected of anyone whose voicemail features themselves singing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum Blogs] Reference

If there is a band which sounds more like the logical conclusion of 2009's hypnagogic and hauntological strands than.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Line Of Best Fit] Reference

When it is "hypnagogic pop" and it sounds not unlike the xx and Burial scoring the sylvan bits of a martial arts horror movie.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

In addition, the state may be accompanied by terrifying hallucinations (hypnopompic or hypnagogic) and an acute sense of danger.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Sleep debt] Reference

Those researchers were looking at what is called "hypnagogic sleep" - learning a task while asleep through the mechanism of dreams.    From Wordnik.com.  [BrianKaneOnline] Reference

You are suffering sleep paralysis with hypnagogic hallucinations, which occur frequently with sleep paralysis and is part of the disorder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

Then, in a strange hypnagogic moment between waking and sleeping, I heard a voice say: "Naturally I accept paradox.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dreamthief's Daughter]

Phil, this qualifies as hypnagogic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Waits – Watch Her Disappear | clusterflock] Reference

I've had hypnagogic hallucinations before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums] Reference

40 minutes ago, -0/+2Probably thinks it's a hypnagogic control signal and scrambles for her tin-foil hat each time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference

/on the face of this harbor,//midway between form and void,/without edges, hypnagogic (17-20).    From Wordnik.com.  [Darkness Audible: Negative Capability and Mark Doty’s 'Nocturne in Black and Gold'] Reference

Or hypnagogic.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Socially responsible art? It doesn't have to send you to sleep] Reference

10 January 2011 2:14PM hypnagogic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference