Hypnopompia
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Hypnopompia is the state of consciousness leading out of sleep, a term coined by the psychical researcher Frederic Myers. Its mirror is the hypnagogic state at sleep onset; though often conflated, the
Fuseli's 1781 painting The Nightmare is thought to be a depiction of a hypnopompic hallucination
Lucid dream
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In the psychology subfield of oneirology, a lucid dream is a type of dream wherein the dreamer knows that they are dreaming while in their dream. The capacity to have and sustain lucid dreams is a tra
Hypnopompia
…False awakening Lucid dream Balkin TJ, Braun AR, Wesensten NJ, Jeffries K, et al. (1 October 2002). "The process of awakening: a PET study of regional brain activity patterns…
Frederik van Eeden (left) and Marquis d'Hervey de Saint Denys (right), early researchers of lucid dreaming
Graphical abstract of "Real-time dialogue between experimenters and dreamers during REM sleep"