- Hypnagogic hallucination
- A pre-sleep dream. A hypnagogic hallucination is characteristically vivid and occurs as one is falling asleep or awakening.
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a vivid dreamlike hallucination occurring at sleep onset.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
Hypnagogic hallucination
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