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Hypnagogic Imagery and Mescaline

J. Amor Ardis, Peter Mckellar

Journal of Mental Science 1956 DOI: 10.1192/bjp.102.426.22 (opens in new tab)

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Characteristics Review Peer reviewed
Intervention Mescaline
Topics Mescaline
Keywords Subject documents Character mathematics Hallucinogen
Citations 17
Key findings Mescaline-induced and hypnagogic states are more than superficially alike, and comparing them may illuminate processes at work in each.

Abstract

Similarity between certain of the visual effects of mescaline and hypnagogic imagery has been independently noted by several investigators, one of the earliest of these being Weir Mitchell (1896). Our own research group first became interested in hypnagogic experiences when one of the writers, as subject, in seeking to communicate the character of his mescaline visions, likened them to images he had encountered just before sleep. This led to an investigation of hypnagogic imagery as such, the results of which have been published elsewhere (McKellar and Simpson, 1954). Further experiments with mescaline, and consideration of the relevant literature of the two fields, suggest that the mescaline-induced and hypnagogic states are more than superficially alike, and that a comparison may illuminate the processes at work in each.

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