Hypnagogia
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A sleep disorder characterized by dreamlike auditory, visual, or tactile sensations when half-awake
Hypnagogia (also spelled hypnogogia ) describes vivid dreamlike auditory, visual, or tactile sensations, which are often accompanied by sleep paralysis. Hypnagogia experiences are most commonly associated with the wakefulness-sleep transition state.
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Artistic and cultural references
- Kitchens of Distinction recorded a song entitled "Hypnogogic" for their 1990 album Strange Free World.
- The album The Always Open Mouth, by the band Fear Before the March of Flames, features the song "Drowning the Old Hag" which describes singer David Marion's experiences with hypnagogia.
- In The Green Man by Kingsley Amis the narrator suffers from sleep paralysis and has hypnagogic hallucinations.
- In Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee, the main character David Lurie refers to his own hypnagogic experience as he recalls his former lovers.
- The musician Adem refers to hypnogogic shapes in his song "You and Moon", taken from his 2006 album "Love and Other Planets".
- The electronica musician L. Pierre (Aidan Moffat formerly of Arab Strap) titled his 2005 album Hypnogogia.
- The works of authors Adam S. Leslie and Peter Tunstall contain many examples of hypnagogic speech passed off as dialogue, film titles, graffiti, etc.
- An artist named Maxwell Lewis? has entitled an album "Awake as a Hypnagog," which is based on a lucid dream he claims to have had.
- The song "A Better Son/Daughter" by Rilo Kiley begins with an account of hypnopompic sleep paralysis.
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