{"id":41377,"date":"2024-11-03T17:57:53","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T23:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=41377"},"modified":"2024-11-03T17:57:53","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T23:57:53","slug":"word-of-the-day-1000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/11\/03\/word-of-the-day-1000\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Hypnagogia<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Hypnagogia<\/b>\u00a0is the transitional state from\u00a0<a title=\"Wakefulness\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wakefulness\">wakefulness<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0<a title=\"Sleep\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sleep\">sleep<\/a>, also defined as the waning state of\u00a0<a title=\"Consciousness\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Consciousness\">consciousness<\/a>\u00a0during the\u00a0<a title=\"Sleep onset\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sleep_onset\">onset of sleep<\/a>. Its opposite state is described as\u00a0<i><a title=\"Hypnopompia\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hypnopompia\">hypnopompia<\/a><\/i>\u00a0\u2013 the transitional state from sleep into wakefulness. Mental phenomena that may occur during this &#8220;threshold consciousness&#8221; phase include hypnagogic\u00a0<a title=\"Hallucination\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hallucination\">hallucinations<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Lucid dream\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lucid_dream\">lucid dreaming<\/a>, and\u00a0<a title=\"Sleep paralysis\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sleep_paralysis\">sleep paralysis<\/a>.<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hypnagogia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg26435141-700-fresh-insights-into-how-we-doze-off-may-help-tackle-sleep-conditions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Fresh insights into how we doze off may help tackle sleep conditions<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Graham Lawton, <em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (26 October 2024, paywall):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Researchers \u2013 and most people \u2013 have long been aware that there is more to the transition into sleep than a simple on-off switch, says [cognitive neuroscientist <a href=\"https:\/\/institutducerveau-icm.org\/en\/member\/?user=1285\">Delphine Oudiette<\/a> at Sorbonne University], in part because of a bizarre, semi-lucid state at the onset of sleep called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2300883-interrupting-sleep-after-a-few-minutes-can-boost-creativity\/\">hypnagogia<\/a>, featuring hallucinatory, dream-like experiences.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Your brain shutting down is an inefficient and bio-soggy process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hypnagogia: Hypnagogia\u00a0is the transitional state from\u00a0wakefulness\u00a0to\u00a0sleep, also defined as the waning state of\u00a0consciousness\u00a0during the\u00a0onset of sleep. Its opposite state is described as\u00a0hypnopompia\u00a0\u2013 the transitional state from sleep into wakefulness. Mental phenomena that may occur during this &#8220;threshold consciousness&#8221; phase include hypnagogic\u00a0hallucinations,\u00a0lucid dreaming, and\u00a0sleep paralysis. [Wikipedia] Noted in &#8220;Fresh insights into \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/11\/03\/word-of-the-day-1000\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41378,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41377\/revisions\/41378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}