Dealing with hypnagogia, the state of consciousness between wakefulness and sleep, this book provides an account of hypnagogia, bringing its diverse phenomena into a comprehensive framework. Andreas Mavromatis argues that this common, naturally occurring state may not only be distinct from wakefulness and sleep but unique in its nature and function, possibly carrying important evolutionary implications. He analyzes the relationship between hypnagogia and other states, processes and experiences - such as sleepdreams, meditation, psi, schizophrenia, creativity, hypnosis, hallucinogenic drug-induced states - and shows that, functioning in hypnagogia, a person may gain knowledge of aspects of his or her mental nature which constitute fundamental underpinnings to all adult thought. In addition, functioning in hypnagogia is shown to play a significant part in mental and physical health. This book should be of interest to general readers of psychology, mind, body and spirit.
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I came across this book as an undergraduate while studying hypnagogic phenomena in a sleep lab. It is a fairly encyclopedic survey of the many aspects of hypnagogic (sleep onset) and hypnopompic (the time between the end of sleep and first awakening) phenomena. A large section also compares hypnagogic phenomena to dreams, meditation, hypnosis, schizophrenia, creativity, and 'psychic' (psi, here) phenomena, making for some interesting reading. One extra perk is that it is filled with beautiful (black and white) artwork, much of it by the author, depicting various perceptual aspects of hypnagogic imagery/dreaming.The reader should know though that this is a 'book' essentially in the form of an enormous review paper, attempting to reference pretty much every paper on the subject and translate a number of very difficult-to-access sources from other languages. For this it is very much to be commended, but don't buy this thinking you'll get a fascinating theory of hypnagogic phenomena or a lot of first-person accounts. It is aimed at the serious scholar (of whom there must be very few on this obscure topic) and though it covers an immense amount of ground it tends to do so in a very cursory way. But as a reference tome, it is utterly invaluable and beautifully indexed/referenced/etc.
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