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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ansuz - mskala's home page » Ansuz] Reference

I also watch brilliant mutating spectacles on my closed eyelids, so-called hypnogogic hallucinations, that usher me into sleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page]

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Experiencing the Next World Now] Reference

This is similar to the "hypnogogic" state experienced just prior to sleep, and the first thing in the morning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Turn Writer's Blocks Into Stepping Stones] Reference

I realized it was a hypnogogic dream inside the dream.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making Light: Open thread 136] Reference

I had a hypnogogic paralyzed dream last winter, while staying at the family cabin in the Adrirondaks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making Light: Open thread 136] Reference

It started at four this morning when I was jolted awake by a particularly hideous hypnogogic hallucination.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-07-05] Reference

In addition, some forms of hallucinations e.g., pseudo, hypnogogic can occur in people who have no illness or diagnosable condition.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference

As I remember, I wrote the words quickly the next morning upon waking, in that hypnogogic state where deep rooted associations meld together with no effort.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Annotated "Dire Wolf"] Reference

Interesting thing about that: the hypnogogic state is alive, man, and I can hear my subconscious roaring at me, all the reasons why I should just roll over and go back to bed….    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-03-01] Reference

Pranayama is very different from the arrhythmic breathing of ordinary life and more similar to the way we breathe during sleep, when the unconscious becomes more accessible to us in dreams and hypnogogic imagery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buddha]

I know, because I've felt, the difference in effect between reading a description of something and the chest-punch of seeing it on screen while lost in the emotionally open, hypnogogic alpha-wave state of viewing images.    From Wordnik.com.  [Writing: Q&A #1 follow-up] Reference

I still hold my theory that this is all a hypnogogic hallucination of hers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anime Nano!] Reference

… falling asleep hypnogogic states release “reality” strictures and free creativity.    From Wordnik.com.  [BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » How I Write When There is No Time] Reference

It's time to emerge from the cave of shadows, switch off the TV, break out of the hypnogogic daze of delusion and say "NO!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Mathaba Highlights Briefing] Reference

James, a. k.a Bubbles, learns to talk, speech descending upon him in the hypnogogic haze he inhabits between grief and non-comprehension of death.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bookslut] Reference

"Music" too plays its part in plugging kids in to violent, blood drenched lyrics which they play for scores of minutes each day and maybe at maximally suggestible hypnopompic / hypnogogic times.    From Wordnik.com.  [California Literary Review] Reference

One theory offered to explain hypnogogic hallucinations is that the thalamus deactivates before the cortex in human beings, so the still active cortex manufactures images, but this is just a hypothesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page]

This sleep paralysis I mentioned corresponds to an inability to carry out voluntary muscle movements during sleep onset (hypnogogic or predormital form) or waking up (hypnopompic or postformtal form) (4).    From Wordnik.com.  [Serendip's Exchange] Reference

Although hypnogogic hallucinations are poorly studied except in relation to narcolepsy, many people without that affliction report seeing pictures or just colors and shadows when they linger at the threshold of sleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page]

(hypnogogic sleep's very good for a writer!) 23 November, 2008 08: 37.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autism Hub] Reference

I just want you to know because i just tuned in for the first time when i heard your excellent homage! sasha did joe bennett stretch that with Ableton Live?? oh kenny g sing us to hypnogogic worlds in which you are also singing but for a slightly longer time.    From Wordnik.com.  [WFMU's recent playlists] Reference

Elementary, 55t extracampine, 56t functional, 55t hypnogogic, hypnopompic, 55t, 256.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference

The soul is the self that depends on the subtle line of cognition which includes, as we saw, imagination, reverie, daydreams, creative visions, hypnogogic states, etheric states, visionary revelations, hypnotic states, transcendental illuminations, and numerous types of savikalpa samadhi, and thus the soul is the self-stream that orients and integrates consciousness in the subtle domain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Soul in Intergal Theory] Reference