borderlands of dreams
Hypnagogia is the hypnagogic state of consciousness — the transitional state from wakefulness to sleep during the onset of sleep.
Its opposite state — hypnopompic, is the transitional state from sleep into wakefulness. These are the borderlands of dreams — thresholds of consciousness with extreme potential and possibility.
Mental phenomena that may occur in this phase include hypnagogic hallucinations, lucid thought, lucid dreaming, and sleep paralysis. The latter two phenomena are themselves separate sleep conditions that are sometimes experienced during the hypnagogic state.
In this transitional time between the sleep self and awake self lies a precious void of self-regeneration. Threads between wakefulness and dreamtime weave into the tapestry of cognition and consciousness.
Originally published at http://diywellbeing.blogspot.com.
