There are two dream states that, together, make up liminal dreaming: hypnagogia and hypnopompia. As you fall asleep at night or into a daytime nap, or struggle to stay awake when you’re exhausted, you pass through a hallucinogenic, psychedelic, swirling realm that feels partly like dream and partly like awareness. That’s hypnagogia, the kaleidoscopic, free-associative dream state that artists, scientists, and thinkers of all sorts harness for various purposes. In the morning, you surface from sleep through the swimmy realm of hypnopompia. Lying warm and cozy in your bed as you slowly awake, you might notice that something that began as a thought has become a dream. Memory shifts into story as your mind sinks back into dozing and you realize you aren’t actually as awake as you thought you were. Then you know you’re in hypnopompia, the twin of hypnagogia.
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