Hypnopompic consciousness (Psychism)

A state intermediate between sleeping and waking, said to occur before the conscious attains dominance over the subconscious. There may be an awareness of fusing electric sparks, or clairaudient or clairvoyant perception which is forgotten as soon as the individual is fully awake. Hypnopompic experiences occur less frequently than hypnagogic, although both hypnagogic and hypnopompic imagery occur suddenly and are not under the individual's control. The imagery is realistic but bizarre. A frequent experience is of hearing one's name called, arousing the person involved. There may be music playing (so realistic as to arouse the person to turn it off), the appearance of highly coloured geometrical images or distorted faces (visual images are short-lived and surrealistic), kinaesthetic experiences, and (less often) olfactory or tactile experience. Surveys relate degree of hypnagogic and hypnopompic imagery to favourable personality characteristics. Absence of such imagery is related to rigid defence against impulse. This is the opposite of findings related to high dream fantasy ratings.