AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Hypnopompic hallucinations are similar to hypnagogic hallucinations-together called hypnagogia. Both are hallucinations that involve sensing things that aren’t actually there while in a mental state between dreaming and waking. The hallucinations can be visual, auditory, or tactile.

Detailed explanation-2: -Sensory or tactile hypnagogic hallucinations refer to when a person feels bodily sensations that are not actually occurring, like the feeling of falling or weightlessness. Sometimes people sense that another person is in the room, even when no one is present.

Detailed explanation-3: -Hypnagogic Hallucinations Examples include a sensation of impending threat, feelings of suffocation, and sensations of floating, spinning, or falling. Hypnagogic hallucinations occur in 40 to 80 percent of patients with narcolepsy and cataplexy.

Detailed explanation-4: -Visual (seeing something that’s not there): About 86% of hypnogogic hallucinations are visual and usually consist of changing geometric patterns, shapes and light flashes. It may seem like you’re looking into a kaleidoscope. They may also involve images of animals, people or faces.

Detailed explanation-5: -Hypnagogic hallucinations are possible during stage 1 of non-REM as an individual transitions from wakefulness to sleep. Hypnagogic hallucinations are described as dream-like episodes affected by stimuli of the immediate environment (like light and sounds) and by events happening briefly before sleep onset.