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Word for the day: Hypnopompic

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Have you ever had the experience where you wake up in the middle of the night and imagine hearing or seeing something that turns out not to be there? Have you ever felt that you couldn't move when you woke up.

The state of transition between sleeping and wakefullness is know as the hypnopompic state. When you're asleep, your brain turns off your muscles, so that you (or at least, most people) don't actually move around even if they dream that they're moving around. When you transition back to being awake, sometimes your dream is still running.

There's also the Hypnogogic state, when you're falling asleep.

Here's an interesting article on this:

Sleep Paralysis and Associated Hypnagogic and Hypnopompic Experiences

Comments

  • Anonymous
    May 29, 2005
    Yeah, it's always fun trying to explain to your husband why you thought you saw, while waking up, the alarm clock turn into a tiger pouncing on you. I’m so glad I’ll never have to experience Finals ever again.

  • Anonymous
    May 29, 2005
    Kind of like the period between when you move the mouse and when the screensaver returns you back to your desktop ;-)

  • Anonymous
    May 29, 2005
    It's because the brain has to page in some code. This puts the "Hibernating" and "resuming from hibernation" prompts in a totally new light...

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    June 07, 2005
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