MEANING
Occurring during the transition from wakefulness into sleep.
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- hypnagogic imagery
- hypnagogic hallucination
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A hypnagogic image flashed behind her closed eyes.
The voice seemed part of a hypnagogic dream until it spoke her name.
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Primary category: horror. Forms: Non-gradable in its technical use. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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