Dormancy vs Hypnagogic - What's the difference?
dormancy | hypnagogic |
The state or characteristic of being dormant; quiet, inactive restfulness.
* 1902 , , Behind the Line , ch. 2:
That induces sleep; soporific, somniferous.
That accompanies falling asleep; especially, pertaining to the semi-conscious period immediately preceding sleep.
* 1999 , Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams , I.c:
* 2001 , (Joyce Carol Oates), Middle Age: A Romance , Fourth Estate, paperback edition, 253:
As a noun dormancy
is the state or characteristic of being dormant; quiet, inactive restfulness.As an adjective hypnagogic is
that induces sleep; soporific, somniferous.dormancy
English
(wikipedia dormancy)Noun
(-)- [N]ow the big Thanksgiving dinner which they had eaten was beginning to work upon them a spell of dormancy .
Synonyms
* inactivity * quiescence * sleephypnagogic
English
Alternative forms
* hypnogogicAdjective
(en adjective)- But if we are in the right mood, a second of such lethargy is enough to make a hypnagogic hallucination appear, after which perhaps we reawaken, until the oft-repeated performance is brought to an end by sleep.
- Very quickly it would come to seem to Lionel Hoffmann that the remainder of his life, all that was not Siri, was of little more substance than those hypnagogic images that flash against our eyelids when, in a state of exhaustion, we begin to sink into sleep.