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Sleep Vocabulary: Hypnotic

Hypnotic remains related to sleep. It is also used to refer to sleeping pills.

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Sleep Vocabulary: Hypnopompic

Hypnopompic refers to something that occurs at the end of sleep.

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Sleep Vocabulary: Hypnopompic hallucination

A hypnopompic hallucination is a crazy image or sound experienced at the moment of waking.

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Sleep Vocabulary: Hypnagogic Jerk

A hypnagogic jerk (I think we’ve all experienced this disturbing sensation) is when the body suddenly jerks when a person is falling asleep.

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Sleep Vocabulary: Hypnagogic Images

Hypnagogic images are very crazy types of images that occur at sleep’s beginning: most intense when the sleep session begins with an REM stage (as often is the case with narcolepsy).

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Sleep Vocabulary: Hypnagogic

Hypnagogic means something which occurs at the beginning of sleep.

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