Sentences with phrase «hypnagogic imagery»

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.

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

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.

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