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hypnagogic /hyp·na·gog·ic/ (hip″nah-goj´ik) 1. hypnotic (1, 2). 2. occurring just before sleep; applied to hallucinations occurring at sleep onset.
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For Zurn, the drawings were exercises in automatism, and their hypnagogic intensity evokes interim states, not only between sleeping and waking but between structure and chaos, depiction and discursiveness. As we drift off to sleep, we enter a very short period of stage one sleep, characterized by alpha brain waves, eye movement, and sometimes bizarre, hypnagogic imagery. Narcolepsy is a complex, lifelong neurological disease characterized by fragmented nighttime sleep, excessive daytime somnolence (EDS), cataplexy, sleep paralysis, and hypnagogic hallucinations. |
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