Hypnagogic hallucinations occur during the transition from wakefulness to sleep, specifically in stages 1 and 2 of deep sleep, without reaching the REM stage. In other words, these hallucinations ...

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The chief clinical features of FFI include a progressive and ferocious insomnia, waking "sleep," hallucinations, autonomic disturbances suggestive of sympathetic overdrive (tachycardia ...