At the ER, I told them about my Mienere's diagnosis (inner ear disease causing vertigo), however, that was same diagnosis that I gave them for my blocked heart a few months ago leading to my Pacemaker. I was very clear that I really wanted to be checked out for a stroke, as that really devastated my Father when he was 62. After a lot of blood tests, EKG, and chest x-ray, they determined it was not a stroke and gave me the Hypnopompia diagnosis. I still think it was Mienere's disease and whatever? I am thankful it was not a stroke!
A hypnopompic state (or hypnopomp) is the state of consciousness leading out of sleep, a term coined by the psychical researcher Frederic Myers. Its twin is the hypnagogic state at sleep onset; though often conflated, the two states are not identical. The hypnagogic state is rational waking cognition trying to make sense of non-linear images and associations; the hypnopompic state is emotional and credulous dreaming cognition trying to make sense of real world stolidity. They have a different phenomenological character. Depressed frontal lobe function in the first few minutes after waking – known as "sleep inertia" – causes slowed reaction time and impaired short-term memory. Sleepers often wake confused, or speak without making sense, a phenomenon the psychologist Peter McKeller calls "hypnopompic speech".[1] When the awakening occurs out of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, in which most dreams occur, the hypnopompic state is sometimes accompanied by lingering vivid imagery. Some of the creative insights attributed to dreams actually happen in this moment of awakening from REM. In Deirdre Barrett's The Committee of Sleep, Margie Profet's McArthur-award winning biology experiment is shown to be one of these.[2]
I do sleep with books, but otherwise no resemblance.
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