Hypnagogia is the transition between wakefulness and sleep. I often experience frightening, realistic dreams during this state—most of these involve an event occurring in the environment in which I lie.
Hypnagogia is often coupled with the terrifying syndrome known as sleep paralysis where the physical body is asleep—paralyzed—but the mind is conscious. I’m unable to open my eyes for what seems like several long minutes and I develop the fear that I might not ever be able fully wake up. Things are heard that don’t exist and things are felt aren’t present. My imagination begins to run wild while I lie there, unable to make a sound or move in the slightest. The only thing I can control is my breathing, so I start to breathe harder, thinking it will wake my body up faster. I then begin to feel very anxious, as if I need to wake up before something terrible happens to me. This petrifying sensation is what I aim to create in my atmospheric sound piece, “Hypnagogia”.
 
Hypnagogia is the transition between wakefulness and sleep. I often experience frightening, realistic dreams during this state involving an event occurring in the environment in which I lie.
Hypnagogia is often coupled with the terrifying syndrome known as sleep paralysis where the physical body is asleep—paralyzed—but the mind is conscious. I’m unable to open my eyes and I develop the fear that I might not ever be able fully wake up. Things are heard that don’t exist and things are felt that aren’t present. My imagination begins to run wild while I lie there, unable to make a sound or move in the slightest. The only thing I can control is my breathing, so I start to breathe harder, thinking it will wake my body up faster. I then begin to feel very anxious, as if I need to wake up before something terrible happens to me. This petrifying sensation is what I aim to create in my atmospheric sound piece, “Hypnagogia”.