Ever seen or heard something as you were half asleep and woken up to realise it wasn’t there? Hypnagogic and hypnopompic hallucinations are actually fairly common!

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References & Further Reading

Hallucinations 1. https://www.britannica.com/science/hallucination/Chemical-factors 2. https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/feelings-symptoms-behaviours/feelings-and-symptoms/hallucinations-hearing-voices/

Hypnagogic & Hypnopompic Hallucinations 1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4988750/ 2. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/14313158_Hypnagogic_and_Hypnopompic_Hallucinations_Pathological_Phenomena 3. https://www.scielo.br/j/anp/a/C9cqbVby3nqWJrKYLvBngkk/?lang=en 4. https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/IJoDR/article/view/71170 5. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-23739-8_8 6. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(18)30138-X/fulltext 7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RvBvYrklXM 8. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-87318-4 9. https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/hypnagogia 10. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B978012375038900008X 11. https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/6638

Other Parasomnias & Related Effects 1. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20120522-suffer-from-sleep-shudders 2. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9781437703269000282 3. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11030656/ 4. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/290/5490/350?hwshib2=authn%3A1628867368%3A20210812%253Aed134caf-83e8-4fd7-9799-0ea1e0c31419%3A0%3A0%3A0%3AyeqVACDJVH2x2dHe%2FPUbZw%3D%3D 5. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK560817/ 6. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/narcolepsy/

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