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Definition of Hypnogogic
1. Adjective. Sleep inducing.
Similar to: Depressant
Derivative terms: Soporific
Definition of Hypnogogic
1. Adjective. (alternative spelling of hypnagogic) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hypnogogic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypnogogic
Literary usage of Hypnogogic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research by American Society for Psychical Research (1914)
"I have found a similar hypnogogic condition several times in my life when I
thought I was awake and on the disappearance of the hypnogogic illusions found ..."
2. Last Letters from the Living Dead Man by Elsa Barker, David Patterson Hatch (1919)
"If anybody wonders that I should admit hearing hypnogogic voices, I can only say
that I regard these things rather objectively and impersonally. ..."
3. Gaillard's Medical Journal edited by Edwin Samuel Gaillard, William S. McChesney (1886)
"These hypnogogic hallucinations had continued about six months already, when in
July, 1882, ... The hypnogogic hallucinations have, for more than a year, ..."
4. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1904)
"The day dream shades by almost imperceptible gradations through hypnogogic states
to the dream of sleep, and, as those whose mental content is fullest are ..."
5. The Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research by American Society for Psychical Research (1907)
"The phenomenon shows a resemblance to the hypnogogic condition which often precedes
or follows certain cases of sleep. It involves that action of the ..."
6. Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research by American Society for Psychical Research (1910)
"The hallucination of the nail in the normal state, being of the hypnogogic type,
tends to show that the previous phenomena were genuine hallucinations and ..."
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