somnambulism

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Somnambulism and other nocturnal deceptions frequently lend their aid to the formation of such phantasmata as are formed in this middle state, betwixt sleeping and waking.

From Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft by Scott, Walter, Sir

Blavatsky, or he had been murdered by his Mahatma or victimised by Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Somnambulism, and other weird abstractions.

From The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes by Zangwill, Israel

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)

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