A Peculiar Intermediary State between Waking and Sleeping

The hypnagogic state: A critical review of the literature.

“…To the pavement with tell too." Froeschels (1949) studied this aspect of the hypnagogic state and postulated that rules of association radically different from the rules of the waking state govern the formation of thought in the hypnagogic state. He concluded that the unconscious plays a major role in hypnagogic thought: similarity seems to be the term that characterizes best the basis upon which the subconscious works in the state of transition.…”

“…Several authors have noted the similarity between hypnagogic and schizophrenic thought processes (Froeschels, 1949;Hollingworth, 1911;McKellar, 1957McKellar, , 1972Mintz, 1948;Oswald, 1962;Vogel et al, 1972). Maury (cited by Oswald, 1962, p. 112) concluded that associations in both cases are based on sound.…”

“…This notion stands in direct opposition to the entoptic theory and embodies the idea that hypnagogic phenomena are manifestations of processes blocked from awareness in the waking state. Alexander (1909) and Leaning (1926) are the principal exponents of this theory, although the idea is implicit in the work of Froeschels (1949), Green et al (1970, Note 1), andVan Dusen (1972).…”

The Bifurcation of the Self

“…The logic and the joined feeling of certainty, as perceived in the state of being awake, rejected as wrong the corresponding processes that were going on in the state of transition" (Froeschels, 1949). While "waking logic and feeling of certainty" are not "altogether extinguished," Froeschels writes in his essay, "A Peculiar Intermediary State Between Waking and Sleeping," it is "interfered with by processes which went on in different spheres of the personality, namely, the sphere of a peculiar pseudo-logic, and the sphere of another feeling of certainty .…”