Hypnagogic
On the edge of sleep.
A simple tool for exploring the creative state between wakefulness and sleep.
You’re lying in bed. Your thoughts start to drift. Images appear, unexpected connections, fragments of ideas. Then you fall asleep — and by morning, most of it is gone.
Your phone gently vibrates at regular intervals and waits for you to respond. When you start to fall asleep and stop responding, it wakes you up.
No AI. No cloud. No account.
Just you, your mind and your phone.
Why I made it
Hi, I’m Zbyněk.
I’ve been interested in dreams for years. I see them as a useful source of ideas and solutions. Hypnagogia — the state between being awake and asleep — is part of that world too.
I was looking for a simple tool that could help me stay around that edge of sleep for a little longer, without just falling asleep. I tried to find something that worked the way I wanted, but I couldn’t.
So I made my own.
An old idea
More than a century ago, people experimented with simple physical tricks to catch themselves at the boundary of sleep. Hypnagogic follows the same idea in a modern way.
Edison had his metal ball.
Dalí had his key.
You have your phone.