Hypnopompic
Jan. 31st, 2026 07:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo Hypnagogic images are the ones that come to you when you're falling asleep and hypopompic images are the ones that come when you're waking up. I just asked Google because I can never remember which is which.
I always enjoy them.
Sometimes you get snatches of dream action or conversation. Sometimes you get a mental picture that flashes up and is gone. They're very hard to catch hold of. Try too hard and you risk kicking yourself back into a fully waking state.
This morning I saw some town in the middle East as it would have been at some time in the past- just a few square white-washed buildings in a rocky valley. Then I saw it as it would be now, with the skyline beyond the valley full of high-rises. The whole vision lasted about a second- or less. It was unconnected to anything before or after.
Where on Earth- or out of the Earth- do these things come from?
I always enjoy them.
Sometimes you get snatches of dream action or conversation. Sometimes you get a mental picture that flashes up and is gone. They're very hard to catch hold of. Try too hard and you risk kicking yourself back into a fully waking state.
This morning I saw some town in the middle East as it would have been at some time in the past- just a few square white-washed buildings in a rocky valley. Then I saw it as it would be now, with the skyline beyond the valley full of high-rises. The whole vision lasted about a second- or less. It was unconnected to anything before or after.
Where on Earth- or out of the Earth- do these things come from?
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Date: 2026-01-31 10:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-01-31 10:21 am (UTC)A long time ago I was lying in bed, still wide awake (or so I thought), when I suddenly saw a head before me that quickly started to decompose until only the skull was left. It scared the hell out of me.
It wasn't until years later that I learned about hypnagogic visions. It was such a relief to realize the skull had been one.