Trance

My most creative time for writing is when I get to my office, and I’m still not completely awake, or while I’m in the hypnopompic state.
Hypno Pompic! Sounds a bit pompous, don’t you think? It means the time just after awakening from sleep. I guess that it’s a transition state. Is that where the word trance comes from (transition)? Transition comes from a Latin verb meaning to go across. Trance came to us from French, where it meant to pass from life to death, or depart. In English it’s less scary, it means: 1. a hypnotic state. 2. a state of detachment as in daydreaming. 3. a dazed state, stupor.