MEANING
Occurring as a person emerges from sleep into wakefulness.
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- hypnopompic imagery
- hypnopompic hallucination
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The figure dissolved like a hypnopompic image when she turned on the lamp.
He could not decide whether the whisper had been hypnopompic or real.
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- hypnopompic
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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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