Today's Word "hypnagogic"
Pertaining to the state of drowsiness preceding sleep
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hypnagogic \hip-nuh-GOJ-ik; -GOH-jik\ (adjective) - Of, pertaining to, or occurring in the state of drowsiness preceding sleep.
"For over a year, then, the ship noted without alarm Wanda's active EEG, the various expressions of her busy hypnagogic life." -- Rob Swigart, 'Portal'
Hypnagogic (sometimes spelled hypnogogic) ultimately derives from Greek hupnos, "sleep" + agogos, "leading," from agein, "to lead."
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