Quotes About Hypnagogic

I wanted to make a record that worked against the hypnagogic paradigm, for sure.

Hypnagogic and hypnopompic," he said, as if he was used to diagnosing the odd conditions of dinner companions like this all the time. "They're hallucinations that happen when you are falling asleep—hypnagogic—and when you wake up—hypnopompic." He'd had them too, he told me. And so had Vladimir Nabokov. He urged me to read Nabokov's description of them in his memoir, Speak Memory.

The hypnagogic state is considered by many to be a genius state, without boundaries or any limitations.

And in the bloodlit dark behind his eyes, silver phosphenes boiled in from the edge of space, hypnagogic images jerking past like a film compiled of random frames. Symbols, figures, faces, a blurred, fragmented mandala of visual information.

Fat, pondering and writing and doing research and receiving dribs and drabs of messages from Zebra during hypnagogic states and in dreams, and attempting to salvage something from the wreck of his life, had decided to go in search of the Savior. He would find him wherever he was.