Solar retinopathy is a condition that can result from focusing the eye(s) on the sun, and usually follows the independent viewing of a solar eclipse.It has also been reported after direct sun-gazing, in anti-aircraft lookouts (Flynn, 1942; Cordes, I944, I948), in mili- tary recruits hoping to obtain discharge from service (Ewald and Ritchey, I970), in hos- pitalized schizophrenic patients...
§ Hypnopompic and hypnogogic refer to that state just before complete awakening (hypnopompic) or complete sleep (hypnogogic).Sleep paralysis is that state in which a patient on awakening is fully conscious but cannot move.