Today’s Word
Hypnagogic (adj): Of, pertaining to, or occurring in the state of drowsiness preceding sleep.
He mastered the ability to sleep with his eyes open while smiling
Song
There is a strong possibility that the character in Roy Orbison’s “In Dreams” witnesses the “candy-colored clown they call the sandman, tiptoes to my (his) room every night,” in a quasi-hallucinogenic hypnagogic state. Or, I guess it could just be the “stardust” that gets sprinkled into his eyes. “In Dreams” was released as a single on Monument Records in 1963. The song peaked at #7 on the Billboard Top 100 charts and has been forever immortalized on the Rolling Stone top 500 song list at #312. The most remarkable part of this song is Roy Orbison’s excellent, operatic voice which crescendos beautifully and hits falsetto perfectly at perfect times.
Check out the song:
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