Sentences with word «hypnagogic»

The Institute for New Feeling contributes a series of video mediations, while MJ Caselden will exhibit a sound sculpture that can induce hypnagogic states (what you feel before falling asleep).

Perhaps most surprising, three of the five amnesiacs described having the same kinds of hypnagogic dreams as the normal subjects.

However, the literal features in the WWM prints are elusive - alternatively emerging from and receding into an enshrouded black background like hypnagogic hallucinations.

Seventeen of these 27 subjects reported seeing the same images during hypnagogic sleep — namely falling geometric pieces that, if placed properly, rack up points in Tetris.

And because they can slide rapidly into REM at any time, people with narcolepsy are prone to hallucinations — or what sleep researchers refer to as hypnagogic imagery — when falling asleep.

Ideally, you'll see hypnagogic (events that happen in the realm between sleep and wakefulness) imagery dance against the back of your eyelids.

When Cindy Wilson moved back to Athens, Ga., part - time, she originally teamed up with a crew of younger musicians (Ryan Monahan, Lemuel Hayes, Suny Lyons, Sterling Campbell) to play cover songs, and ended up making a pair of EPs that wandered through hypnagogic electro - pop fields.

Works are often inspired by hypnagogic states (the state between being awake and asleep) and take non-conventional forms that are designed to challenge artistic symbolism and archetypes.

Some recall hypnagogic states, fragments of surreal imagery that flood the mind just before the onset of sleep.

His highly theatrical and mysterious work is invested with dense layers of art - historical reference, archetypal characters, hypnagogic imagery, and diaristic storytelling.

The goal is to finally achieve a «hypnagogic state» — the state between wakefulness and sleep.

Stay relaxed, and try shaping the hypnagogic patterns into a scene of your own imagining.

It is also very common for babies to move very suddenly and wake with a start (this is known as a hypnagogic startle); as they grow up, these will become much less regular.

The researchers had assumed that the amnesiacs ¿ dreams — especially those during the hypnagogic phase — would have nothing to do with recent events, if they occurred at all, due to the damage to their short - term memory centers.

In this latest round of experimentation, Stickgold and his team probed yet a third phase of dreaming — the hypnagogic period that occurs within the first hour of sleep.

Sleep paralysis Symptoms: Paralysis when falling asleep (hypnagogic) and waking up (hypnopompic), lasting for anywhere from 30 seconds to longer than five minutes.

In the end, the goal is to achieve a «hypnagogic state» — the state between wakefulness and sleep.

Occasionally, Pearce stages an out - of - nowhere assault, which jars you in your seat the way a hypnagogic jerk might when you're drifting off to sleep.

But, as with Lanthimos» previous films, here there is a cool down to any hypnagogic flights of fancy due to all manner of naturalistic approaches, such as the natural, high contrast lighting, and use of sound, often adding and amping up a voyeuristic quality to the macabre progression.

Compare this to other French noir like Jean Renoir's superlative Night at the Crossroads (1932)-- Renoir compensated for his more leisurely pacing with a hypnagogic atmosphere and dream - like imagery like a dolled - up woman putting out her cigarettes on a live turtle shell.

David Lynch Teaches Typing is such a hypnagogic surrealist masterpiece that I couldn't help but analyse it as if it were an actual David Lynch movie — which I did so for Rock Paper Shotgun here!

And as if the story itself isn't mind - bending enough, illustrator Elda Broglio has created a hypnagogic animated short to commemorate 150 years of the novel for Good Books — an organisation that sells books and donates all profits to charity.

These brainwaves are connected with higher levels of creativity that typically are found in artists, musicians and creative thinkers, whilst the flashing lights of the Dream Machine are meant to induce a hypnagogic state.

It is this symbiosis that releases those hypnagogic images in an almost unconscious manner.

Most of my abstract works are inspired from hypnagogic states I often experience (The hypnagogic experience occurs between being awake and asleep,) and take non-conventional abstract structures, often devoid of form, that are designed to challenge artistic symbolism and archetypes.

First shown at MMK Frankfurt in 2016 and reconfigured for the exhibition, this hypnagogic environment, replete with watercoolers, plants, posters, people working at desks, as well as a waiting area and corporate infomercial, conflates time and space, compounding the quasi-authenticity of the scene and pseudo-legitimacy of the proposition.

This «hypnagogic» show (to use the Surrealists» term, which applies particularly to Hains's first works from the late»40s) was organized at the invitation of the Fundação de Serralves and has provided Hains the opportunity to revisit some of his old pieces and display them with his recent photographic works.

According to the gallery, the hypnagogic environment plays with the quasi-authenticity of the scene and the pseudo-legitimacy of the proposition.