Hypnopompic

Similar phenomena, so-called hypnopompic hallucinations, may occur on waking in both normal children and narcoleptics and reflect the continued activity of part of the dream system for a few minutes after waking. ❋ M.D. Richard Ferber (2006)

I think that what's been lost sight of here is a psychological phenomenon known as hypnopompic or hypnagogic experiences, in which people do honestly hallucinate these things. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Jenny woke up with a start and thought, hypnopompic hallucination? ❋ L.J. SMITH (2010)

As far as I could reconstruct it afterwards, there'd been a loud noise in the flat below or above, which my dreaming mind had construed as someone in the bedroom, complete with hypnopompic hallucination of someone sitting on the bed and shaking it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Because the existing word hypnagogic means “of, relating to, or occurring in the state of intermediate consciousness preceding sleep,” and hypnopompic means “of or relating to the partially conscious state that precedes complete awakening from sleep,” many people came up with hyp - coinages. ❋ Unknown (2006)

In his immediate postoperative state, in what was neither a dream nor fantasy, but more akin to a prolonged series of hypnopompic hallucinations during a long period of waking up, this 50-plus - year-old man went through vivid images of lying on a concrete slab, while someone opened his heart and collected the blood in large pails and buckets at the side of the table. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I experienced some sort of hypnopompic episode last night. ❋ Mac (2006)

Hypnagogic and hypnopompic hallucinations during sleep paralysis: Neurological and cultural construction of the nightmare. ❋ Andrew Newberg (2006)

She drifted into the last, hypnopompic layer of sleep, finding and losing dreams. ❋ Dozois, Gardner (2006)

We are told to pay heed to the “interval between the waking-state and the sleeping-state,” the twilight states of mind psychology calls hypnogogic and hypnopompic. ❋ Michael Grosso (2004)

Sleep paralysis and hypnopompic hallucinations aren't new, McNally adds. ❋ Unknown (2004)

In China, hypnopompic hallucinations were called _gui ya_, while in Japan the term was _kanashibari_. ❋ Unknown (2004)

McNally believes that his abductees 'experiences all began with a phenomenon called _sleep paralysis_, combined with _hypnopompic hallucinations_ -- a term that simply refers to dreamlike visions occurring during the transition from sleeping to waking. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Still feeling a bit [hypnopompic]...I'll [be better] [in a bit]. ❋ Koo-Koo (2005)