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Definition of Hypnopompic
1. Adjective. Referring to the state of consciousness before becoming completely awake. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hypnopompic
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Hypnopompic
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypnopompic
Literary usage of Hypnopompic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic William Henry Myers, Leopold Hamilton Myers (1907)
"These visions may be hypnopompic as well as hypnagogic; — may appear, that is to
say, at the moment when slumber is departing as well as at the moment when ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research by American Society for Psychical Research (1914)
"These should hardly be classed as hypnopompic images, though sometimes images in
a dream, or. briefly, a dream, will awaken me with a start. ..."
3. Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic William Henry Myers (1903)
"... sometimes as the result of a "suggestion " nred by the dream. In these
hypnopompic c.ises the vivid visualisation to originate in sleep . while in ..."
4. The Poetic Mind by Frederick Clarke Prescott (1922)
"... as hypnogogic and hypnopompic illusions. These are akin to day dreams, if not
identical with them; on the other hand they are often confused in ..."
5. From India to the Planet Mars: A Study of a Case of Somnambulism with by Théodore Flournoy (1900)
"... and one may hesitate whether to regard them as simple dreams of a very vivid
character, hypnagogic or hypnopompic * visions, or as veritable Phis term ..."
6. Collected papers on analytical psychology by Carl Gustav Jung, Constance Ellen Long (1917)
"Ecstasies—Her conviction of the reality of her visions—Her dreams, hypnagogic
and hypnopompic visions—The elevation of her ..."