It appears from hence, that reverie is a disease of the epileptic or cataleptic kind, since the paroxysms of this young lady always began and frequently terminated with convulsions; and though in its greatest degree it has been called somnambulation, or sleep-walking, it is totally different from sleep; because the essential character of sleep consists in the total suspension of volition, which in reverie is not affected; and the essential character of reverie consists not in the absence of those irritative motions of our senses, which are occasioned by the stimulus of external objects, but in their never being productive of sensation. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
The goal of propaganda is not to wake us up but to put us to sleep -- whether that is the cozy somnambulation of shopping or the paranoid and violent sleep of the fascist rally. From Wordnik.com. [Stephen Ducat: Propaganda 101: How to Decode Political Ads] Reference
"Where was government regulation before this crisis was happening?" he asks Markey, who is too good a guy to come back with "Enjoying a media-enabled period of extended somnambulation, maybe?". From Wordnik.com. [TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads] Reference
This mental effort is termed reverie, or somnambulation, and is described more at large in. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
The cataleptic spasm which preceded the reverie and somnambulation in the patient, whose case is related in Sect. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
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This with her always followed somnambulation. From Wordnik.com. [David Elginbrod] Reference
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