hypnopompic, a.
(hɪpnəʊˈpɒmpɪk)
[f. hypno- + Gr. ποµπ-ή sending away (f. πέµπειν to send) + -ic.]
That accompanies the process of awakening from sleep.
| a 1901 F. W. H. Myers Human Personality (1903) I. p. xvii, To similar illusions accompanying the departure of sleep, as when a dream-figure persists for a few moments into waking life, I have given the name hypnopompic. Ibid. iv. 125 Equally remarkable are the hypnopompic pictures. 1925 Proc. Soc. Psychical Res. XXXV. 331 Of these four examples only the first is hypnagogic; Herschel's was a day-vision (at the breakfast-table), and the other two are hypnopompic. 1972 Science 16 June 1203/3 The ASC's [sc. altered states of consciousness] experienced by almost all ordinary people are dreaming states and the hypnogogic and hypnopompic states, the transitional states between sleeping and waking. |