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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