English
Etymology
F. hypnagogique from Gr. (hupnos), sleep
Adjective
hypnagogic

1. that induces sleep; soporific, somniferous
2. of the drowsiness that precedes sleep, or of the images perceived in that state

Quotations
Very quickly it would come to seem to Lionel Hoffmann that the remainder of his life, all that was not Siri, was of little more substance than those hypnagogic images that flash against our eyelids when, in a state of exhaustion, we begin to sink into sleep. - "Middle Age : A Romance" (2001) by w:Joyce Carol Oates|Joyce Carol Oates (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, 253)

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• 2007-03-01 21:56 - Zigzig20s - quote from joyce carol oates

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