Yes, even one year ago a professor of medicine confessed to me, should I pronounce the word somnambulism I'd be ruined. From Wordnik.com. [Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 6] Reference
He had reached that stage which may be called the somnambulism of fear. From Wordnik.com. [Sant' Ilario] Reference
There is also a lighter phase than somnambulism, that is called fascination. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use] Reference
Jon is calling somnambulism hypnosis while others have a wider definition of what hypnosis is. From Wordnik.com. [Is all hypnosis self-hypnosis? Is all self-hypnosis hypnosis?] Reference
The worst phase of his somnambulism was the impending fears and terrible visions to which he was subjected. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
I want to make certain I've got strong imaginative involvement usually characterized as somnambulism the bypass of the critical factor of the conscious mind so I will suggest it. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Brian:] Reference
"In the first place," she reasoned, talking half aloud for the sake of the company of her own voice, "I've had a fit of what the dictionary calls somnambulism, I suppose. From Wordnik.com. [Gypsy Breynton] Reference
When I entered Mrs. Brahan's drawing-room, I was in a kind of somnambulism, -- moving, walking, seeing, yet hardly conscious of what I was doing, or what was passing around me. From Wordnik.com. [Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author] Reference
There can be no doubt that somnambulism is hereditary. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
Sometimes, as in the case of somnambulism, the Sub-conscious. From Wordnik.com. [Real Ghost Stories] Reference
Some doctors, however, place it between catalepsy and somnambulism. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use] Reference
The following case of somnambulism, in which the seizure supervened, in. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
He recognized three distinct stages -- lethargy, catalepsy and somnambulism. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use] Reference
Now to illustrate the phenomena of trance half-waking, by describing somnambulism. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
"Are there not persons with certain diseases who can be put into a state of somnambulism?". From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
That night — it was after the funeral — his tendency to somnambulism manifested itself. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain: A Biography] Reference
Was not this a sign that he accepted her opposition and renounced his idea of provoked somnambulism?. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
And you wake up inside your own life in a way that makes the rest of the day feel like somnambulism. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
Whatever may be the cause of the affection, somnambulism undoubtedly assumes different degrees of intensity. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
After a certain period of somnambulism she began to move, and unconsciously took a few steps across the ward. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use] Reference
The other was subject to somnambulism, or walking in the night, when he ought to have been asleep in his bed. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859] Reference
They had already heard of your somnambulism, and our servants had told how you suffered with it from your childhood. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
By the time the midpoint had been passed, I was living in a sort of waking dream; or rather, a state of somnambulism. From Wordnik.com. [Out Around Rigel] Reference
Neither were her movements stiff and mechanical, as we often see in the representations of somnambulism on the stage. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
Young Hébert, who had gone mad as the result of a wound, regained full consciousness, the higher consciousness, during somnambulism. From Wordnik.com. [Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution] Reference
She says somnambulism occurred in fewer than 1 in 1,000 patients in clinical trials, and wasn't necessarily caused by the medication. From Wordnik.com. [To Cut Risks of Sleeping Pills,] Reference
It may be asked, How somnambulism, being an affection likely to entail more serious diseases upon persons subject to it, is to be cured?. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
All are convinced of her innocence, when they see her in this state of somnambulism, in which she crosses a very narrow bridge without falling. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
They seemed to be in a state of perfect somnambulism, and to be altogether unaware of the presence of any persons, as well as insensible to pain or fatigue. From Wordnik.com. [Folk-lore and Legends: German] Reference
Another very remarkable circumstance has been observed in somnambulism; it is, that persons in this state have exhibited an extraordinary exaltation of knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
At last I learnt that her former mesmerisers, as bold in their practice as certain hypnotisers of to-day, had induced somnambulism at the time of her accouchements. From Wordnik.com. [Real Ghost Stories] Reference
She did not even know what thoughts were hidden in the depths of her brain, and she knew absolutely nothing of this forced somnambulism with which she was threatened. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Those which I shall select, will be instances either of somnambulism, double consciousness, or catalepsy, the popular phenomena of which I take this occasion of displaying. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
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