12 July 2016

hypnagogic

[hip-nuh-goj-ik, -goh-jik]

adjective

1. of or relating to drowsiness.
2. inducing drowsiness.

Origin of hypnagogic

French

1885-1890; < French hypnagogique; see hypn(o)-, -agogue, -ic

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Examples from the Web for hypnagogic

Contemporary Examples

Nighttime “visitations” may be chalked up to sleep deprivation, to hypnagogic or hypnopompic hallucinations.
A Night with The Conjuring’s Ed & Lorraine Warren
Stefan Beck
August 17, 2013

Historical Examples

And there are crystal-seers who are not subject to hypnagogic illusions.
Cock Lane and Common-Sense
Andrew Lang

The experience of hypnagogic illusions also seems far more rare than ordinary dreaming in sleep.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7
Various

For bad visualisers, on the other hand, the vividness of these hypnagogic pictures may be absolutely a revelation.
Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death
Frederick W. H. Myers

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Today’s quote

I just don’t believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.

– Malcolm X

On this day

12 July 1943 – The Soviet Army commences a counter-offensive in the Battle of Kursk, Russia to combat the German Army’s ‘Operation Citadel’ offensive on the Eastern Front. It was the largest tank battle in history, involving more than 8,000 tanks, 3 million troops, 35,000 guns and mortars, and more than 5,000 aircraft, between both sides. By mid-August, the Soviets had prevailed, driving the German’s out.

12 July 1950 – birth of Eric Carr (Paul Charles Caravello), drummer with Kiss. Died 24 November 1991.

12 July 1962 – Rolling Stones make their first live performance. The concert was at the Marquee Club on London’s Oxford St.