somnambulism

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London news organs distanced all others in advancing hypotheses: Daily Chronicle: "Somnambulism."

From Time Magazine Archive

Somnambulism might solve the second riddle, but to the first I could find no answer acceptable to my reason.

From Bat Wing by Rohmer, Sax

Somnambulism was well known by the ancients; and Aristotle tells us, “there are individuals who rise in their sleep, and walk about seeing as clearly as those that are awake.”

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

Somnambulism, clairvoyance, and that state of exquisite sensitiveness which makes us receptive of impressions transformed into dreams, may be commanded in a sensitive, and observed at leisure.

From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Tuttle, Hudson

So strangely is Freedom, as we say, environed in Necessity; such a singular Somnambulism, of Conscious and Unconscious, of Voluntary and Involuntary, is this life of man.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas