Intrusions of a drowsy mind: neural markers of phenomenological unpredictability.
Frontiers in Psychology 2015 Valdas Noreika, Andrés Canales-Johnson, Justin Koh et al.
The transition from a relaxed to a drowsy state of mind is often accompanied by hypnagogic experiences: most commonly, perceptual imagery, but also linguistic intrusions, i.e., the sudden emergence of unpredictable anomalies in the stream of inner speech. This study has sought to describe the contents of such intrusions, to verify their association with the progression of sleep onset, and to...