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SOMNAMBULISM, med. juris. Sleep walking.

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(4) However, the drug has been associated with NREM parasomnias, namely somnambulism or sleepwalking, and its variants including sleep-driving, sleep-related eating disorder, and rarely sexsomnia (sleep-sex), with anterograde amnesia for the event.
To those (we quote again from our author) who refuse to believe even in the first fundamental fact, of the production of the state commonly termed the Mesmeric somnambulism, by the process of the magnetic manipulation--a state of extraordinary sleep-walking, during which a peculiar relation, of either nervous or mental influence and connexion, exists between the active and the passive parties to the process--to these we have nothing to say.
The history was positive for both a personal and family history of extensive sleep talking and somnambulism. Based on the circumstances which included a difficult divorce, separation anxiety, sleep deprivation and stress this one time occurrence seemed to be strongly suggestive of sexsomnia.
In Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy: Greek Philosophy to Plato, he describes Socrates as having catalepsy caused by magnetic somnambulism when in deep meditation.
Hegel goes on to treat further forms of more disturbing loss of rational control of image generation, including somnambulism, magnetism (primarily mesmerism, that is, hypnosis, but also other forms of imagistic captivation by another that would fall under the Freudian heading of ego-idealization), and madness.
It is more typically associated with nineteenth-century phenomena: for example, the fascination of literary writers for magnetic somnambulism, the transport of the senses, and other extraordinary states of the psyche; or the famous demonstrations carried out in the 1870s-80s by the clinician and neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot to recreate, under hypnosis, the various states of hysterical patients.
The Congress has been so removed from the reality of Indian aspirations, it is hard not to believe that the Gandhis, and by extension, the party, do not suffer from suicidal somnambulism. But these are kind words for them.
Upon falling asleep, Lucy becomes susceptible to the power of Count Dracula, who induces her somnambulism in order to gain access to her, victimizing her and then transforming her into one of the "Un-Dead" (88, 162, 180). STROLLING IN LAND OF NOD CAN STRIKE AT ANY TIME EXPERTS say sleepwalking - or somnambulism - is more common in children than adults.
Weinstock wisely includes a discussion of "Somnambulism. A Fragment," a rewarding piece of Brown's short fiction that is worthy of broader attention than it has received.