Perhaps most surprising, three of the five amnesiacs described having the same kinds
of hypnagogic dreams as the normal subjects.
Not exact matches
Ideally, you'll see
hypnagogic (events that happen in the realm between sleep and wakefulness) imagery dance against the back
of your eyelids.
Stay relaxed, and try shaping the
hypnagogic patterns into a scene
of your own imagining.
Examining his subjects with reference to their hypnotic sensibility and to such automatisms as
hypnagogic hallucinations, odd impulses, religious dreams about the time
of their conversion, etc., he found these relatively much more frequent in the group
of converts whose transformation had been «striking,» «striking» transformation being defined as a change which, though not necessarily instantaneous, seems to the subject
of it to be distinctly different from a process
of growth, however rapid.»
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In A spicy migraine grease Taylor presents a new series
of large and small - scale paintings and drawings that, through both philosophical enquiry and material investigation, are concerned with the several invented symbolic elements
of the artists own studio (as well as its historical and geographical location in Angel, North London) and his increased interest in the mechanics
of consciousness and
hypnagogic dreaming.
Some recall
hypnagogic states, fragments
of surreal imagery that flood the mind just before the onset
of sleep.
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).