Re: The Nature of Hypnagogic Imagery
There may be something to be said about the state of mind that precedes the Hypnogogic or Hypnopompic states. When going from wakefulness to a sleeping state, our 'waking minds' are trying to figure out and interpret the abstract ways in which the 'dreaming mind' thinks and interprets.. In this sense, the hypnogogic imagery will be different than Hypnopompic... As we transition into a WAKING state from sleep,,, it is reverse, now our DREAMING mind is trying to make sense of the linear way in which our waking minds process information... It has been said that one process is simply the reverse of the other,, but they are very different experiences as the two states of mind are integrated, but not completely...
Jake.
We Sleep, that we may dream. We Dream, that we may wake. Jonathan Livingston Seagull
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