Thread: Hypnogogia Poll

^ I get them all, but there's no option for it :0
For instance, I once felt an arm snake around me but heard yelling & murmers as well D=

Visual and auditory, I think. Sometimes only one, sometimes both.

EDIT: ROFL I love your sig, The Cusp

Weird, so little voting. I only have sound, excepting for that time with the bear, its always sound <.<

I mostly feel floaty and tingly, sometimes I hear beeping noises kind of like a fire alarm.

I get all three of them. The one that stands out the most is touch though. Most of the time it feels like something has gotten into the bed like a dog....and it starts sniffing around my ears. I can feel the bed sink in at different spots before finally getting near my face.

All of the above and more, so I can't vote.

I could have sworn it was HypNAgogia



I get things like audiotory and visual.

I only recall getting visual because I get them so often, but I'm sure I've gotten sensation/auditory at some point also. Typically, it's visual for me.

In retrospect I should have included more options in that poll...

Originally Posted by slayer

I could have sworn it was HypNAgogia

Yeah, probably. But the both come up as errors under my spell check, and using the O is just a bad habit.

Yea it's hypNAgogia and hypNOpompia.

You could consider it a hybrid I guess since you can get HH of either form haha

Originally Posted by Dream Guide Team

HH | Hypnogogic Hallucinations

Tutorial

Hallucinations that occur between the waking and sleeping state



HI | Hypnogogic Imagery

Hypnogogic Hallucinations of a visual medium. The most common version of hypnogogic hallucination and often used interchangeably on the DV.

.

Originally Posted by yellowlight

.

It's embarrassing to say that, as diligent as many of us dream guides were at finding and fixing common misspellings and typos, we missed that one and how many times it shows up in that dictionary. It's even misspelled in the SP definition , although in that case the whole thing should be altered- SP most commonly occurs with hypnopompic, not hypnagogic, hallucinations.

There's another, rarer, type of hypnagogia that's kind of scary.

My mom has what's called hypnagogic phenomena. That means upon awakening, it's not so much based on seeing and hearing things as much, but your mind is in a different place- still in dream logic land. And you don't neccessarily have SP. She one time ran through the house screaming about the gorillas. She ran into my room and wanted to know if I knew where they were... Yeah... That's one type.

Originally Posted by Shift

SP most commonly occurs with hypnopompic, not hypnagogic, hallucinations.

I read on Wikipedia that hypnopompia is the state of consciousness leading out of sleep. But what if you enter SP consciously, how can you have hypnopompic hallucinations then? You're not waking up or anything, you're awake and aware all the time.

Originally Posted by spockman

There's another, rarer, type of hypnagogia that's kind of scary.


My mom has what's called hypnagogic phenomena. That means upon awakening, it's not so much based on seeing and hearing things as much, but your mind is in a different place- still in dream logic land. And you don't neccessarily have SP. She one time ran through the house screaming about the gorillas. She ran into my room and wanted to know if I knew where they were... Yeah... That's one type.

Read this

Originally Posted by yellowlight

I read on Wikipedia that hypnopompia is the state of consciousness leading out of sleep. But what if you enter SP consciously, how can you have hypnopompic hallucinations then? You're not waking up or anything, you're awake and aware all the time.



Read this

Because SP naturally occurs most often after sleep, when waking up, not before sleep. I was referring to sleep paralysis in general, not our little lonely band of lucid dreamers in the world

And Spock, that is scary as fuck

Originally Posted by Shift

Because SP naturally occurs most often after sleep, when waking up, not before sleep. I was referring to sleep paralysis in general, not our little lonely band of lucid dreamers in the world

Haha, yeah. I understand now. Thanks for explaining

Read this

Oh, Okay. I geuss we should have done more then look up the phrase in our 1992 medical dictionary and call it good... Research pays off, I suppose. 'Hypnopompic Phenomena.' Got it. Thanks.

Originally Posted by spockman

Oh, Okay. I geuss we should have done more then look up the phrase in our 1992 medical dictionary and call it good... Research pays off, I suppose. 'Hypnopompic Phenomena.' Got it. Thanks.

Fixed