Quoting one of my posts: "I had a bit of insomnia last night. I finally fell into a hypnagogic state early this afternoon. 'Hypnagogia — the state of cognizant pre-sleep or drowsy relaxation…. Hypnagogia naturally occurs twice daily: just prior to and following sleep. It is a period of hallucinatory sentience during which you are nonetheless capable of controlling attention. What’s more, your rational defenses are lowered. This may be considered “prime time” to visualize a desired end. (Hypnagogia is also a period of heightened extrasensory-perception (ESP) activity, as recorded in academic psychical research.)'

As I wake and go back to sleep several times a night (I know, far from ideal for restorative sleep), I can experience this several times a day. For me, I find that in this state I am receptive to ideas and creative thoughts, maybe Greg’s, or maybe Marcus’s (my soul), or maybe influences from spirit guides or souls of dearly departed friends and family.

Carolyn Hastings’s discussion of the etheree form (10 lines progressing from one syllable to ten) and the first four or five lines occurred to me in this state. Then I woke up, opened the computer, and wrote the poem." https://medium.com/channspirations/poem-of-united-purpose-and-place-in-and-of-the-human-race-d85f4103f047