Notes
1 I am grateful to Elisabetta Brighi, Dana Kaplan, Göran Sonesson, Evan Thompson and one anonymous reviewer for comments on a previous version of this review article.
2 Quoting Joan Halifax at a “Being with Dying” workshop. Thompson (Citation2014b, 283).
3 Mavromatis (Citation2010, 49); See also Mavromatis (Citation2006). A long interview with Mavromatis is available at Peake (Citation2013); The term “hypnagogic” was coined by Maury (Citation1865). “Hypnapompic” phenomena are similar experiences associated with the process of waking up.
4 Mavromatis (Citation2010, 186); Salvador Dalì used a similar method (Mavromatis Citation2010, 209–210). Compare the homemade box in which Charles Laughlin slept during his research into states of dream consciousness (Laughlin 2011).
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