Hypnagogic Quotes

#1. And in the bloodlit dark behind his eyes, silver phosphenes boiled in from the edge of space, hypnagogic images jerking past like a film compiled of random frames. Symbols, figures, faces, a blurred, fragmented mandala of visual information.

William Gibson

#2. Anyone who grew up in the psychedelic '60s probably experienced their share of hypnagogic fireworks. Just as sex got me hooked on anatomy, so drugs were probably what first got me interested in entoptic phenomena, phosphenes, and hypnagogic imagery.

Peter Blegvad

#3. There's this point between conscious and subconscious when you realize you were asleep and resting, and you were having all kinds of anxiety dreams about the film and all the things that can go wrong. You get in this hypnagogic state, where you're waking up and realizing, "Oh, it was just a dream."

David Slade

#4. Exploding Head Syndrome: A type of Hypnagogic Auditory Hallucination - a rare and relatively undocumented parasomnia event in which the subject experiences loud crashes, bangs, doors slamming, even gunshots at the onset of sleep or within an hour

June Matthews

#5. The hypnagogic state is considered by many to be a genius state, without boundaries or any limitations.

Brian L. Weiss

#6. I wanted to make a record that worked against the hypnagogic paradigm, for sure.

Autre Ne Veut

#7. Aggressiveness was a fundamental to success in airtoair combat and if you ever caught a fighter pilot in a defensive mood you had him licked before you started shooting.

David McCampbell

#8. I was afraid to look in the mirror - afraid the image of myself in the wedding dress would send me over the edge into a full-scale panic attack.

Stephenie Meyer

#9. Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.

Ronald Reagan

#10. I think I heard somewhere that there are no wrong turns in life, that everything you go through and every path you take is nothing but a learning experience on an unexpected path.

Marilyn Cruise

#11. The way we do things is to begin.

Horace Greeley

#12. The old man," I said at length, "is the type and the genius of deep crime. He refuses to be alone. He is the man of the crowd. It will be in vain to follow, for I shall learn no more of him, nor of his deeds.

Edgar Allan Poe

#13. I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.

Larry David

#14. It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.

Douglas R. Hofstadter