Hallucination during the onset of sleep
Charles Corliss, Herbert Silberer
Routledge eBooks July 8, 2020 DOI: 10.4324/9780429299704-2 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Key points | Describes Silberer's account of the hypnagogic phenomenon, in which abstract thoughts convert into symbolic images under mental fatigue, based on his self-observation as an experimental subject. The text reports that he distinguished three categories of this process: the "Material," the "Functional," and the "Somatic." |
Abstract
Silberer delineates one of his signature, universally accepted (even by Freud), findings: the hypnagogic phenomenon . Fascinatingly employing himself as an experimental subject, he clearly details the process in which abstract thoughts, due to mental fatigue, convert into symbolic images. He further refines the discussion by presenting three categories of this process: the Material , the Functional , and the Somatic .