Maury, the persons who most frequently experience these hypnagogichallucinations are those who are of an excitable constitution, and are generally predisposed to hypertrophy of the heart, pericarditis, and cerebral affections.
Loss of sleep and severe intellectual exertions invariably produce them, as do also cafe noir and champagne, which, by causing headache and insomnia, strongly predispose him to the hypnagogic hallucinations.
With the exception of the hypnagogic brightness and the flashes, there were no rudimentary hallucinations, but from the beginning they were of a systematic nature, involving all the sense-organs equally.
The chief rôle naturally belongs to the imagination, hence imaginative people in particular are subject to hypnagogic hallucinations.
Investigations of hypnagogic activity, as well as association reactions in states of concentrated attention, give psychical results which up to now are indistinguishable from the mental conditions in schizophrenia.
In half-waking states these manifestations are relatively frequent in the so-called hypnagogic hallucinations.
It is highly probable that hypnagogicpictures are identical with the dream-pictures of normal sleep--forming their visual foundation.
Physical sensations also occur, such as sensations of being too large for one's skin, or too fat; or hypnagogic feelings of endless sinking or rising occur, of enlargement of the body or of dizziness.
To their more or less unfettered activity we owe the presentation in consciousness of those disorderly pictures which, occurring in this stage of imperfect sleep, have been termed hypnagogic hallucinations.
There were hypnagogic hallucinations of trenches and shells, recognized as imaginary and productive of no fear.
In the treatment of this case the writings of psychologists who had studied hypnagogic experiences were used and the absence of hallucinations during waking hours was stressed.
For bad visualisers, on the other hand, the vividness of these hypnagogic pictures may be absolutely a revelation.
One of my hypnagogic visions which I have already mentioned, simple as it is, reveals my entire attitude, not only to sleep, but to life in general.
The hypnagogic vision I have so often, that I wade into a body of water and finally start swimming, only adds one more pleasant feature to my escape from reality.
All at once the thread of the abstract thought is broken and autosymbolically in the place of it is presented the following hypnagogic hallucination: Symbol.
Now by this symbolism as we observe most clearly in hypnagogic (half dreaming) hallucinations and in dreams, three different groups of objects are represented.
And there are crystal-seers who are not subject to hypnagogic illusions.
In the author's case the hypnagogic phantasms seem to be created out of the floating spots of light which remain when the eyes are shut.
These 'hypnagogic illusions' Pontus de Tyard described in a pretty sonnet, more than three hundred years ago.
The first is hypnagogic hallucination, the second coloured audition.
On the contrary, hypnagogic illusion is, with me, a decided phenomenon.
The experience of hypnagogic illusions also seems far more rare than ordinary dreaming in sleep.
Occasionally, in hypnagogic illusions, the observer can see the picture develop rapidly out of a blot of light or colour, beheld by the closed eyes.
The nearest analogy to crystal visions, as described, is the common experience of "hypnagogic illusions" (cf.
The seeing of the pictures, as far as we have spoken of it, appears to be a thing unusual, but in no way abnormal, any more than dreams or hypnagogic illusions are abnormal.
In these respects, and in the awakeness of the scryer, crystal pictures differ from hypnagogic illusions.
People who cannot scry may have thesehypnagogic illusions, and, so far, may partly understand the experience of the scryer who is wide awake.
This intermediate and persistent stage of hypnagogic images serves in every way to explain the physical genesis of involuntary hallucinations.
If the hypnagogic phase actually affects the cerebral cellules in connection with the various senses of which they are the organs, the phases of sleep and dreams, strictly so called, have more general conditions.
It is, as Parish has argued, in sleep and in those sleep-resembling states called hypnagogic that a condition of dissociation leading to hallucination is most apt to occur.
Any one who has ever been subject to the hypnagogic imagery sometimes seen in the half-waking state, or who has ever taken mescal, knows that it is absolutely impossible to fix an image.
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