Hypnagogia refers to the transitional state of consciousness between wakefulness and sleep. It occurs when alpha waves, a type of electrical activity in the brain, decrease but a person hasn’t fully ...

Research reveals that hallucination just before or after sleep is a common occurrence, and it might actually be beneficial. Have you ever had the jarringly realistic feeling, just before falling ...

When you drift into sleep or slowly wake up, you pass through what is known as liminal dream states—periods where your mind is fluid, unrestricted by the constraints of rational thought. These states, ...

There is a brief time, between waking and sleep, when reality begins to warp. Rigid conscious thought starts to dissolve into the gently lapping waves of early stage dreaming and the world becomes a ...

We're all familiar with the two basic states of consciousness: sleep and wakefulness. But what about what happens in between those states? In the borderlands between wakefulness and rest is a strange ...