hypnagogic hallucination, n.Definitions

Hypnagogic hallucination (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the overture to the night: words heard while falling asleep return in the dream, as an overture announces the themes of the opera to come.

Hypnagogic hallucination (n.) needs ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠only a second's lapse of attention: the hungry dieter sees a fork helping itself from a plate, and then dreams of a well-spread table loud with forks.

The Hypnagogic hallucination (n.) was, ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠in Jung's reading of his own haunting, how an unconscious fear broke into consciousness: the torpor carried a fear he did not know until the vision appeared.