Current Events > That feeling before you fall asleep. Do you know it?

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Do you experience it frequently? What are your experiences like?

For me I'm often flooded with feelings of peace and contentment, mostly it's laced strongly with what I could only describe as some kind of strong nostalgic feeling that is overwhelming in a good way. I rarely get imagery but I do on occasion hear songs (auditory hallucinations) that do not exist to my knowledge. There's some research on the subject below.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia

Hypnagogia, also referred to as "hypnagogic hallucinations", is the experience of the transitional state from wakefulness to sleep: the hypnagogic state of consciousness, during the onset of sleep

The hypnagogic state can provide insight into a problem, the best-known example being August Kekuls realization that the structure of benzene was a closed ring while half-asleep in front of a fire and seeing molecules forming into snakes, one of which grabbed its tail in its mouth. Many other artists, writers, scientists and inventors including Beethoven, Richard Wagner, Walter Scott, Salvador Dal, Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla and Isaac Newton have credited hypnagogia and related states with enhancing their creativity.

Early references to hypnagogia are to be found in the writings of Aristotle, Iamblichus, Cardano, Simon Forman, and Swedenborg. Romanticism brought a renewed interest in the subjective experience of the edges of sleep. In more recent centuries, many authors have referred to the state; Edgar Allan Poe, for example, wrote of the "fancies" he experienced "only when I am on the brink of sleep, with the consciousness that I am so."

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