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Hypnagogic Hallucinations

by The Devouring Void

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1.
Oneirology 01:00
2.
oneirogogic horror overwhelms quiescent senses creeping dread still-dreaming eyes open shallow breaths, paralytic languor fearing death parasympathetic nervous breakdown perception of malevolent demoniac presence intent: to kill Flitting round periphery of vision ephemeral tormentor besets the un-sleeper reality convulses convulses phantasmagorical oppressor performs psychogenic horrors upon paralytic dreamer; still hallucinating suffocating dreamer struggling for the next breath hateful apparition sits upon his chest dead-weight asphyxiation, breathless awaiting hypnagogic death chilling hands pinning every limb unnaturally contorting seemingly at whim hollow eyes, serrated grin feel the thrill of anxiety setting in dreamer awakens in a cold sweat still palpitating heart beats upon his chest darkness fills the room with synaesthesic deafness catches breath awaiting hypnagogic death
3.
Phosphene 05:50
Desolation. Nascent madness blooms in lucid death throes; sanity’s prescient funeral shroud. The nights grow longer now. Reality is atrophied. The wolves’ hour drawing ever closer; weary eyes can never know sleep. Prionic origin. Inexorable progression. He offers few words upon his languid breath. The light behind his eyes All but extinguished. Hypnagogic movements as if caught between preternatural dreamscape ataxic and weak Prionic origin. Inexorable progression. Efflorescent death spell Suffuses within. Evoking coruscating madness and death therein. Thus passing in the blink of an eye The end of worldly glory into desolation Memento mori
4.
Paracusia 05:20
Frayed ends burn. Raw hands pulling madly at the seams. Unrelentingly. Through endless toil, hands will crack and callus, spirit starts to fracture. Through endless toil, threadbare nerves exposed to frostbitten air. Paracusia; extrasensory portents from the dead. Ahrimanic fever dream. Frayed ends burnt. Tether separated from the weave. Unequivocally. The moil of labour ceased in slumber Slumber broken lays asunder Anxiety now encumbers Enshrined in darkness; taunting umbra Oppressor Daemon Recursive cycle Moil ad nauseam for sustenance Recursive cycle roiling tides erode resilience Paracusia; extrasensory portents from the dead. Ahrimanic fever dream. The moil of labour ceased in slumber Slumber broken lays asunder Anxiety now encumbers Enshrined in darkness; taunting umbra Recursive cycle Moil ad nauseam for sustenance Recursive cycle roiling tides erode resilience
5.
Lucidity 05:18
Through dilapidated corridors of a mind untidy with neglect and deprivation; come to stand upon the banks of the Rubicon - suicide. Trapped within circadian blur; dysregulation of the somnic phase. Perception in the absence of the tangible: hallucinations A slow erosion through stress or desuetude. Life in slow motion Unfettered by corporeal obligations. My world gets smaller The walls draw closer My world gets smaller The walls draw closer Taciturn, saturnine. Oppressive is the weight of emptiness. Trompe l'oeil - to fool the eye. Distortion in the process of cognitions Lucidity; to crystallise. A new resolve emerges; single purpose To seek an exit here, when life expires. Our heavens empty, and the world gets smaller.
6.
Noctambulant. Slow-wave spectre; of form bereft diffuses through perceptual set. A suffocating shrine to cataleptic dread. Somnambulant. Empathic terror from the fathomless. Quiescence acquiesces; a leaden weight upon the chest. Falls out of slumber in distress from anthypnic precipice. Clarity returns to him, crystallising from within. Passing through praedormitum in disquietude and trepidation until morning’s light spills in and diurnal toil begins. Somnolescence Moil ad nauseam for sustenance recursion til the final breath A lachrymating shrine to blood and sweat. Enfeeblement. Circadian haze encompasses. Moiling torpor sapping strength. wearing down the warp and weft Overstressed. Anxious, sleepless and depressed. Overworking self to death Should just stop to rest.
7.
Chlorhexidine scent solvent; stripped clean sterile and raw From a hospital bed subarachnoid bleed neurological trauma Draws closer the sheets, shadows draw near Lhermitte’s delusions at night-time appear Substantial - but lucid vivid; bizarre childlike wonder at lights in the dark Familiar faces; people I’ve loved visions from our past lives, through darkness returned in anachronistic semblance blooming forth; the haemorrhage cause sympathetic surge loss of pupil reflex Kernig’s sign affirmed Progressive loss of function, of memories and fears decreasing state of conscious falling toward dreamless coma Unresponsive and not breathing.
8.
[stage 1 NREM; anthypnic apparitions] The weight of sleep pervades her waning senses; ghost-like shadows seep through the fog of her perception [stage 2 NREM; yet hardly part of either] a part of two worlds yet hardly part of either gently veiled by somnolescence; sleep draws her deeper as the voices dim [stage 3 NREM; slow-waves and sleep-spindles] And without a whisper; she’s drawn beyond the veil passing through the gates of praedomitium received by slumber’s arms. *** [REM; Zhuangzi’s butterfly] A false awakening Am I asleep and dreaming? The room contorting before me pre-lucid and fleeting, I glance at familiar scenes Unfamiliarly with great trepidation and fear Trying to make sense of this solipsistic nightmare. *** [the in-between] and through the uneven passage of time a quietude once again seeps through her mind. *** [REM; the falling dream] Stands at the precipice; our scene-change precipitous One fatal misstep carelessly Much like cursed Icarus wind whipping merciless left to the whim of gravity at terminal velocity until the point of impact *** [awoken; Zhuangzi’s retort] abruptly woken coalescing lucidity breathless but emboldened palpitations begin to cease it was all just a dream - - all just a dream.

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released July 5, 2021

• Composed & recorded by Nuno Verdades
• Vocals & Lyrics by Timothy Clay
• Cover Artwork by Ikzanwb

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The Devouring Void Evora, Portugal

Black/Death Metal from Portugal/Australia.

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