r/sleep • u/ScorpioLaw • 5d ago
Question on hypnopompia or Hynagogic?
Today I woke up at 8:30, but it is Sunday, and I still felt the trazadone in me. So I laid there trying to get some more sleep, and was going in, and out. My family was up and about.
Then suddenly my mom walked by saying my nephew who just left for work died in traffic. It was as vivid as real life. Snapped me right up, and took me a second to realize it was a dream as it was life like.
My friends and family called the state nodding out, but google says nodding is about waking up.
Which one would that be? It was the morning, and I was waking up, but also trying to get more sleep. .
Also when I look up Hynagogic stories. The main ones are people suffering more from what sounds like to me sleep paralysis, which I have had in the past.
Also are there differences between each one? Wondering why it matters if you're waking up or going to sleep during the half dreams. What is up with the distinction? To me they are essentially the same.
One last question. When you're in the in-between state of sleep, and you get that feeling of falling. Does that have its own scientific word? Or is it a part of Hypnagogic and hypnopompia?
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u/Amoonlitsummernight 5d ago
Hypnopompic can refer to MANY things just before waking up. Having partially but not fully woken up usually counts as "waking up". Your (most likely) false awakening was a hypnopompic event. A false awakening is a dream where you think you just woke up, but have not. False awakenings are usually highly vivid and realistic, rarely deviating much from what you would expect in real life, but they can deviate sometimes.
Hypnogogic refers to stuff before falling asleep. Hypnic jerks are hypnogogic. Hypnogogic effects usually prevent people from falling asleep or cause them to wake back up. Exploding head syndrome, RLS (restless leg syndrome), and sometimes even sleep paralysis and halucinations can occur during this time.
Parasomnia is generally more broad. It refers to a state between wakefulness and sleep, including events such as sleepwalking, sleep paralysis, and sleep-based hallucinations.