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	Hypnagogia: A Bridge to Other Realities
		The term describes the unique state of consciousness that occurs before the subconscious attains dominance in the period shortly prior to falling asleep, in stage 2 of NREM (6).
		Hypnagogic stages of sleep, with all its hallucinatory imagery, tends to act as compelling explanations for many claims of alien or supernatural encounters.
		It is easy to imagine how an individual who has had a hypnagogic experience with sleep paralysis, who is not familiar with the neurological explanation, to likely interpret their strange experience in terms of their cultural beliefs or in other bizarre supernatural terms (3).
	serendip.brynmawr.edu /bb/neuro/neuro00/web3/Shaw.html (1475 words)

	Hypnagogia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hypnagogia (also spelled hypnogogia) and hypnopompia are the names of experiences a person can go through when falling asleep in the case of hypnagogia, or waking up, in the case of hypnopompia.
		When in a hypnagogic or hypnopompic state a person can have lifelike auditory, visual, or tactile hallucinations (known as hypnagogic hallucinations), perhaps even accompanied by full body paralysis.
		One suggestion is to blink rapidly and then attempt to move the facial muscles or wiggle the toes and then the feet.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hypnagogic_state (443 words)

	Hypnagogia
		Its technical name is the hypnagogic state and, along with dreaming, it is one of the most fascinating altered states of consciousness we can experience without the use of drugs.
		During hypnagogic states, the usually dominant neocortex – the evolutionarily recent and specifically ‘human’ part of the brain –; is inhibited, and much older structures take over.
		Curiously, this intersection of states is parallelled in the anatomy of the brain itself.
	www.forteantimes.com /articles/163_hypnagogia.shtml (3160 words)

	'Out of Body Experiences' - FAQ 4
		The ideal state for leaving your body is Condition D. This is Condition C when it is voluntarily induced from a rested and refreshed condition and is not the effect of normal fatigue.
		Once in the state required he operates using the rules of that state and then returns, closes the door that was opened and ends the ritual.
		Monroe states that barbiturates and alcohol are harmful to the ability, and this makes sense since they would tend to reduce control over imagery even though they are relaxing.
	www.spiritual.com.au /articles/astral/faq_obe4_jasmed.htm (2173 words)

	Dr. Jiri Wackermann--Abstracts of selected papers
		Extending the spatial approach, multi-channel EEG may be represented as a trajectory in the so-called state space: functional states of the brain are reflected by the geometry of the trajectories.
		The aim of this exploratory study was to investigate electrophysiological correlates and subjective dimensions of experience of: (i) the hypnagogic state, at sleep onset, and (ii) the Ganzfeld state, induced by homogenisation of perceptual field.
		Manifestations of experimentally induced altered states of consciousness in the brain's electrical activity as well as in subjective experience were explored via the hypnagogic state at sleep onset, and the state induced by exposure to an unstructured perceptual field (ganzfeld).
	www.igpp.de /english/eap/cv/cv_jw_a.htm (3971 words)

	Physiological Explanation of the Two-Sided Shamanic Drum
		The alpha state is the electrical frequency of the brain between 8 and 13 Hz.
		This shifting into the theta state is accomplished by the drone of the drum and results in a sleepy state of wakefulness or a light dreaming state.
		Once a person has entered into the hypnagogic state, it is possible to free the spirit to journey to the underworld and celestial realms of the soul.
	www.nicholasnoblewolf.com /writings/physiological_explanation_shamanic_drum.html (787 words)

	Floatation Tanks effect on Brainwaves
		It is a mysterious, elusive state, potentially highly productive and enlightening, but experimenters have had a difficult time studying it, and it is hard to maintain, since people tend to fall asleep as soon as soon as they begin generating large amounts of theta.
		Interestingly, the four states "were parallel with the disciples' years spent in Zen training." In other words, the more meditative experience a monk had, the more theta he generated 9 i.e., those monks who had more than twenty years of experience generated the greatest amounts of theta waves).
		As early as 1956, John Lilly was noting that the state of mind in the float tank was "hypnagogic," full of " reveries and fantasies," with much visual imagery and many childhood memories, and mental events that were "surprising to the ego"- all characteristics of theta activity.
	www.floatdreams.com /brainwaves.htm (1286 words)

	chu_chii: The Black Dreams: Lucid Dreaming and Hypnagogic States
		During the actual transition into the dream state, one is likely to experience sleep paralysis, including rapid vibrations,[13] a sequence of very loud sounds and a feeling of twirling into another state of body awareness, "to drift off into another dimension".
		During the hypnagogic state, an individual may appear to be fully awake, but has brain waves indicating that the individual is technically sleeping.
		An experience of the hypnagogic state is not an uncommon occurrence with 30 to 40 percent of people experiencing it at least once in their lives.[citation needed] However, it could be a sign of a sleep disorder, such as narcolepsy and insomnia, or associated with temporal lobe epilepsy.
	chu-chii.livejournal.com /41695.html (725 words)

	Dreamlinks: Books
		The hypnagogic is a state between waking and sleeping, a naturally occurring state of consciousness we pass through briefly at least twice a day, on the way to falling asleep, and upon the return towards waking.
		After the identification with the bear has stopped and the dreamer has returned to his habitual consciousness, (the state of being we call 'ego,') he is fully aware of the enormous difference between the experience of the moment when the bear was a phantasm, and when the bear was fully embodied in all its muscles.
		She will do this practice daily until it becomes a conditioned reflex and this body state and the clear current will be instantly present the moment she focuses on them, in the way Pavlov's dog begins to salivate the moment it hears the dinner bell.
	www.cyberdreamwork.com /cyd-magazine.html (7228 words)

	Hypnagogic@Everything2.com
		The hypnagogic state is the condition the human mind reaches shortly before sleep.
		Basically what happens during this state is that random images and thoughts float through your mind, sometimes related to recent events but mostly just really random strata.
		A similar mental phase, the hypnopompic state, occurs when the body and mind are in the process of waking up after having slept for a few hours.
	everything2.org /?node=hypnagogic (364 words)

	&;_________ somewhere between ...
		The hypnagogic state is the condition which exists between being awake and sleeping.
		It is thought that hypnagogic mentation is a greatly diminished version of REM sleep, allowing one to survey the contents of his or her subconscious at the level of awareness.
		During the hypnagogic state, there is a decrease in normal thoughts and an increase in unusual, more dreamlike thoughts.
	www.undreaming.net (352 words)

	Modified or Altered States of Consciousness (ASC)
		This state of wakeful super-rest is called "fourth state" by some of neurophysiologists who were interested in, others, especially in linguistic english area call it : "hypnagogic state".
		I proposed the term "of paradoxical wakefulness [ 26 ]" rather than of "fourth state of consciousness" in order to mark the symmetry of this state of consciousness in its function of cleaning memory, restoring, purifying, in opposition to imaginary enrichment and to the setting in memory related to the state of paradoxical sleep.
		This state is generally integrated by the company within the framework of permissive or prescribed moments: process of initiation, institutional sibyls, mystical brotherhoods, religious festivals, crowned dances, carnival and charivari, body expression and therapy, etc...
	cabinet.auriol.free.fr /yogathera/4th-state-consciousness.htm (4110 words)

	Journal of Parapsychology, The: Relationship between the hypnagogic/hypnopompic states and reports of anomalous ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		However, although the ganzfeld procedure is often assumed to induce a hypnagogic state, the extent to which it does resemble the naturally occurring hypnagogic state is not clear (Braud, Wood, & Braud, 1975; Schacter, 1976).
		Although this study requires replication, it does suggest that the ganzfeld technique does not induce a hypnagogic state, and therefore ganzfeld studies probably cannot provide experimental support for the psi-conducive nature of the hypnagogic state.
		If the hypnagogic state is conducive to anomalous processes, perhaps this could be due to the initial increase in alpha or the later increase in theta activity (Healy, 1986) that occurs during this period (e.g., Baddia et al., 1994; Davis, Davis, Loomis, Harvey, & Hobart, 1938).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2320/is_2_66/ai_90532944/pg_4 (1329 words)

	Hypnagogia - Psychology Wiki
		In hypnagogic states, a person may appear to be fully awake, but still has brain waves indicating that they are still technically sleeping.
		Also, in hypnagogic trance states the individual may be completely aware that they are sleeping or hallucinating, while this is not generally the case with hypnosis.
		People in the hypnagogic state sometimes experience sleep paralysis, a condition in which the body is temporarily paralyzed after waking or before falling asleep.
	psychology.wikia.com /wiki/Hypnagogia (578 words)

	Sleep Paralysis: page 2
		Sleep paralysis, or more properly, sleep paralysis with hypnagogic and hypnopompic hallucinations have been singled out as a particularly likely source of beliefs concerning not only alien abductions, but all manner of beliefs in alternative realities and otherworldly creatures.
		Sleep paralysis is a condition in which someone, most often lying in a supine position, about to drop off to sleep, or just upon waking from sleep realizes that s/he is unable to move, or speak, or cry out.
		In a recent report involving narcoleptic dogs, the authors argue that 'cataplexy and a dysfunction in the maintenance of and transition between vigilance states are central to narcolepsy (Nishino, et al., 2001, p.
	watarts.uwaterloo.ca /~acheyne/S_P2.html (2413 words)

	Implications of Experimentally Induced Contemplative Meditation
		She stated in this connection that this was the only cue she had detected in the course of the experiment.
		In the hypnagogic state and in dreaming a symbolic translation of psychic activity and ideas occurs but, although light, force, and movement may play a part in hypnagogic and dream constructios, the predominant percepts are complex visual, verbal, conceptual and activity images.
		In a formal sense these instructions constitute a regression to the primitive cognitive state postulated for the infant and young child, a state in which the distinction between thoughts, actions, and object, is blurred as compared to the adult.
	www.deikman.com /implications.html (8289 words)

	Altered States
		Mavromatis (1987) notes that the word 'hypnagogic' (from the Greek hypnos = sleep, and agnogeus = conductor, leader) was first used by the Frenchman Maury (1848) to specifically denote the deeply relaxed state of consciousness between wakefulness and sleep during which flashes of inspiration and creative insight often appear.
		On the average, only 5 to 10 minutes is spent in hypnagogia as one passes from a relaxed alpha brainwave state on into the first stages of sleep.
		During this fleeting psycho-physical state, people typically report randomly occurring visual and auditory experiences which, in comparison to the dreams characteristic of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, are more disconnected and short-lived.
	www.mindmachine.com /html/body_altered_states.html (417 words)

	DANCE OF ECSTASY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is not that the hypnagogic state itself is anything particularly extraordinary or esoteric that makes it of interest or utility.
		For this particular meditation on the dream state the instructions are simply to relax and breathe in a certain manner at the end of a dream.
		After the experience ended and I was in the normal waking state again the words she had spoken confused me. You see, for several years I thought she was trying to reassure me about what I had experienced.
	www.dance-of-ecstasy.net /dance/mw04.html (2405 words)

	planet Z
		The hypnagogic state (occasionally spelled hypnogogic) is the stage between being awake and being asleep.
		While supremely relaxed, and approaching (or in) the hypnagogic state, I've found that a sudden noise (like a door slamming or the phone ringing) will be somehow translated into a visual phenomenon.
		My basic interpretation is that when in the hypnagogic state, the brain is deprived of its usual sensory input (similar to being in a deprivation tank), and begins to produce its own hallucinations.
	www.planetz.com /Zzz.html (800 words)

	Paranormal Studies Message Boards - Hypnagogia (Waking Sleep)
		One of the earliest modern explorers of hypnagogic states was the Russian journalist and philosopher PD Ouspensky.
		His attempts to do this created what he called a “half-dream” state, in which he both “slept and did not sleep.” Ouspensky also discovered something known to other hypnagogic voyagers: that creating these states at night usually led to a fitful sleep.
		During hypnagogic states, the usually dominant neocortex — the evolutionarily recent and specifically ‘human’ part of the brain — is inhibited, and much older structures take over.
	www.skatemd.com /forums/showthread.php?t=4426 (3734 words)

	Hypnagogic State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Hypnagogic State is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
		¥ in lucidity or the state of false awakening
		Hypnagogic State: To be able to control your dream
	www.experiencefestival.com /hypnagogic_state (758 words)

	Spiritual Nirvana - Practical paths to Enlightenment » Review of The Serpent Grail
		Gardiner and Osborn state categorically that enlightenment is a hypnagogic state, that relaxed period between sleeping and waking when vivid dreams occur, sometime prophetic.
		We are simply saying that the hypnagogic state, which we identify as the shamanic trance state, and which is reached through intense meditation, can actually lead to the enlightenment experience known by the Hindus as Kundalini - indeed it can trigger it.
		The ‘hypnagogic state’ (or transliminal phase) - being the technical terms we use today - are frequently used in the book because this altered state of consciousness, is the ‘third force state’ that the ancients and people (initiates) throughout history were allegorising and giving symbolic reference to in many different ways.
	www.spiritual-nirvana.com /2006/01/23/review-of-the-serpent-grail (871 words)

	excommunicate.net: Redefining yourself and your surroundings
		However, accompanied with this mystique is an altered state of consciousness known as “ hypnagogia “, or in it’s lay-terms, the “ borderland state “, the “ borderline “, or the “ half-dream “ state.
		In the hypnagogic state, random voices may sound seemingly from no where, visual apparitions may materialize, origin-less thoughts could possess the mind which some have told they agreed with.
		One of the first to remark on hypnagogic potentials was Aristotle, who spoke of the “ affections we experience when sinking into slumber “ and “ the images which present themselves to us in sleep “;.
	www.excommunicate.net /hypnagogia (1418 words)

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		One method of reaching this state without falling asleep is this: Bend one of your arms at the elbow 90 degrees and hold your forearm and hand up while keeping your upper arm relaxed and flat on the bed or floor.
		Once you have control of the vibrational state you are ready to leave the body.
		When you have achieved the vibrational state try to roll over as if you were turning over in bed, do not attempt to roll over physically.
	www.geocities.com /teachingsofthelight/astralprojection.html (1266 words)

	Erowid Experience Vaults: Hypnagogic State - Meta-Hypnagogic Reflection - 43718
		The hypnagogic state can be loosely defined as a hallucinary period between wakefulness and sleep.
		The hypnagogic vision seems now to have demonstrated the breadth of that subconscious’ faculties in addition to communicating its potential use to and relationship with the conscious mind.
		These experiences and their implications (both singularly and collectively) leveled me, but I was simultaneously struck by the hilarity of it all, that this occurred in part to remind me of a baby being comically booted in the head.
	www.erowid.org /experiences/exp.php?ID=43718 (1428 words)

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