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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_century 1540–50]; < MLatin receptīvus.  

==Adjective==

==Definitions==

*1. having the [[quality]] of receiving, taking in, or admitting.

*1. having the [[quality]] of receiving, taking in, or admitting.

*2. able or quick to receive [[knowledge]], [[ideas]], etc.: a receptive [[mind]].

*2. able or quick to receive [[knowledge]], [[ideas]], etc.: a receptive [[mind]].

*4. of or pertaining to reception or receptors: a receptive end organ.

*4. of or pertaining to reception or receptors: a receptive end organ.

*5. (in [[language]] learning) of or pertaining to the language skills of listening and reading (opposed to productive ).

*5. (in [[language]] learning) of or pertaining to the language skills of listening and reading (opposed to productive ).

 

 

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*re⋅cep⋅tiv⋅i⋅ty   [ree-sep-tiv-i-tee] Show IPA , re⋅cep⋅tive⋅ness, noun

3. amenable, [[hospitality|hospitable]], responsive, open.

==Description==

==Description==

''Thought'' [[process]]es on the edge of sleep tend to differ radically from those of ordinary wakefulness. Hypnagogia may involve a “loosening of [[ego]] boundaries ... openness, sensitivity, internalization-subjectification of the physical and mental environment ([[empathy]]) and diffuse-absorbed attention,”[40] Hypnagogic cognition, in comparison with that of normal, alert wakefulness, is characterised by heightened suggestibility,[41] illogic and a fluid association of [[ideas]]. Subjects are more receptive in the hypnagogic state to suggestion from an experimenter than at other times, and readily incorporate external stimuli into hypnagogic trains of thought and subsequent [[dream]]s. This receptivity has a physiological parallel; EEG readings show elevated responsiveness to sound around the onset of sleep.[42]

''Thought'' [[process]]es on the edge of sleep tend to differ radically from those of ordinary wakefulness. Hypnagogia may involve a “loosening of [[ego]] boundaries ... openness, sensitivity, internalization-subjectification of the physical and mental environment ([[empathy]]) and diffuse-absorbed attention,”[40] Hypnagogic cognition, in comparison with that of normal, alert wakefulness, is characterised by heightened suggestibility,[41] illogic and a fluid association of [[ideas]]. Subjects are more receptive in the hypnagogic state to suggestion from an experimenter than at other times, and readily incorporate external stimuli into hypnagogic trains of thought and subsequent [[dream]]s. This receptivity has a physiological parallel; EEG readings show elevated responsiveness to sound around the onset of sleep.[42]

 

[[Herbert Silberer]] described a process he called autosymbolism, whereby hypnagogic [[hallucination]]s seem to represent, without repression or [[censorship]], whatever one is thinking at the time, turning abstract ideas into a concrete image, which may be perceived as an apt and succinct representation thereof.[43]

[[Herbert Silberer]] described a process he called autosymbolism, whereby hypnagogic [[hallucination]]s seem to represent, without repression or [[censorship]], whatever one is thinking at the time, turning abstract ideas into a concrete image, which may be perceived as an apt and succinct representation thereof.[43]

 

This [[process]] can even lead to genuine [[insight]] into a problem, a well known example being the story of [[August Kekulé]]’s [[discovery]] of the [[structure]] of benzene. Similarly, the teenaged Karl Gauss obtained an insight during a hypnagogic reverie into how to construct a 17-sided polygon. Many other artists, writers, scientists and inventors – including Beethoven, Richard Wagner, Walter Scott, Thomas Edison and Isaac Newton – have credited hypnagogia and related states with enhancing their [[creativity]].[44] According to himself, Keith Richards wrote the Rolling Stones' biggest hit "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" while sleeping. He has stated that he went to bed with a tape recorder on the bedside table, and when he woke up the tape was full with mumbling and half-singing, mixed with some snoring.  

This [[process]] can even lead to genuine [[insight]] into a problem, a well known example being the story of [[August Kekulé]]’s [[discovery]] of the [[structure]] of benzene. Similarly, the teenaged Karl Gauss obtained an insight during a hypnagogic reverie into how to construct a 17-sided polygon. Many other artists, writers, scientists and inventors – including Beethoven, Richard Wagner, Walter Scott, Thomas Edison and Isaac Newton – have credited hypnagogia and related states with enhancing their [[creativity]].[44] According to himself, Keith Richards wrote the Rolling Stones' biggest hit "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" while sleeping. He has stated that he went to bed with a tape recorder on the bedside table, and when he woke up the tape was full with mumbling and half-singing, mixed with some snoring.