The hypnotic, or somnambulic subject, may be more or less affected at first, and slowly fall under the influence, until the continuous condition is the same as that in which a premonition is received.
We will simply for convenience divide the sensitive state into the hypnotic, somnambulic and clairvoyant; but it must be borne in mind that these merge into each other; and that no sharp line can be drawn between them.
One night he was found in the somnambulic condition, translating a passage from the Italian into French, and searching out the words in a dictionary.
Her father now consulted me in regard to the case, and invited me to the house in order to witness the somnambulic acts for myself.
In the somnambulic individual the brain is still more incapable of receiving sensorial impressions.
Franck the case of a young peasant, aged about sixteen, and endowed with a degree of intelligence above his age and condition, who was rendered somnambulic by the grief caused by the sudden death of his father.
A gentleman informs me that his wife frequently walks in her sleep, and performs many somnambulic acts in entire darkness.
As a consequence of this fact, consciousness is seldom affected by the molecular play of the brain during the somnambulic excursion.
To the ordinary form of epileptic mania such paroxysms sustain a relation similar to that subsisting between ordinary dreams and the somnambulic experience.
The mind, undisturbed by external impressions, gives its attention to the operation of these waking organs, and a dream with all its consequences, somnambulic or otherwise, is the result.
The history of the patient just related, illustrates the manner in which the actions of a somnambulic dreamer may be controlled by the will of a spectator.
When the predisposing temperament exists, a great variety of excitations may serve to produce the phenomena, so that unless careful observation is employed, the truly somnambulic character of the paroxysm may easily be overlooked.
Hence the time occupied by their somnambulic vigor must remain a blank in memory during the waking state.
Ordinarily the memory is not impressed by the events of the somnambulic dream, but we have already learned that it is sometimes affected precisely as in common dreaming.
Somnambulic lethargy is a condition in which the cerebrum is wholly inert.
I asked her if it would rain to-morrow, and she said to me, in her somnambulic state, that it would rain torrents.
Gibert to come through several intervening streets to him at his own house, which she accomplished in the somnambulic condition, and under the observation of Prof.
If, now, he speaks of his own accord, or his magnetizer speaks to him and he replies, he is in the somnambulic or alert stage.
At that time her debility was excessive, and nearly every day she fell spontaneously into the somnambulic condition, became clairvoyant, and related her visions.
Others spontaneously go into the somnambulic condition and only then become clairvoyant; while still others need the assistance of a second person to produce somnambulism and independent vision.
After about ten minutes in this deep trance she usually passed into the alert, or somnambulic stage, from which also no one but the operator could arouse her.
After having secured the proper somnambulic condition in the subject, Dr.
I had, perhaps, deprived her of the somnambulic power.
In her somnambulic sleeps, the present body was the sign that the soul was within reach: so it might be still.
I hailed this as another sign that her waking and sleeping thoughts bordered on each other; for she must have taken the book during her somnambulic condition.
It does not lie in his horizon to consider the grave consequences which such suggestions during sleep may produce during future years in the brain the sleep of which has been transformed into such half-somnambulic relations.
He abstained therefore from the magnetic manipulations and produced the somnambulic state by making the patients simply fixate his hands and by ordering them to sleep.
Charcot[5] divides thesomnambulic states into two chief classes:-- 1.
This differentiates it from the above-mentioned twilight states and links it to the so-called somnambulic conditions.
The hallucinatory appearance of the hypnotised personality, or rather of the suggested idea, may be regarded as the last effect upon the somnambulic personality.
We have discussed two secondary complexes of consciousness and have followed them into the somnambulic attack, where they appear as the patient's vision when she had lost her motor activity during the attack.
There is a peculiarity common to all thesesomnambulic personalities which must be noted.
Occasionally states occur in typical epilepsy which to experts seem parallel with somnambulic states,[16] or which can only be distinguished by the existence of genuine convulsions.
The intelligence of the two subconscious persons is very slight; they produce banalities almost exclusively, but their relation to the conscious ego of the patient when in the somnambulic state is interesting.
These independent transmutations of simple stimuli must be regarded as primary phenomena in the formation of somnambulic dream-pictures.
He was also a victim to somnambulic propensities, and very set in his ideas.
Had he not inadvertently fallen asleep with his mind in such condition, the somnambulic demon would not have been invoked, nor would Jim Cardegee have gone mining next day with a dish-pan.
In a short time afterwards, she was awakened into the somnambulic or delirious state, when she began to converse freely with the persons around her, but more especially with her magnetiser.
Dupotet, and fell into thesomnambulic state after eight minutes.
He would throw her again into the somnambulic state, and by his will successively cause her to lose and recover the sensibility of any part of her body.
He informed the Academy that he had under his care a young woman, whose powers of divination when in the somnambulic state were of the most extraordinary character.
I answer the question by asking another:--How can persons in the somnambulic state read with the tops of their heads?
Another remarkable feature used to attend these nocturnal excursions of my great-grandmother, in the somnambulic condition, when she would thus witness the celebration of funerals of persons who were at the time still alive and well.
Her habitual manifestations of this faculty were during her somnambulic walks in the middle hours of the night; but this I am now to relate occurred about noonday, when she had not been asleep.
On her fifth hypnotisation, however, Lucie underwent a kind of catalepsy, after which she returned to the somnambulic state; but that state was deeper than before.
Or again, in rarer cases the somnambulic output may take the form of oratory, and edifying discourses may be delivered by a preacher whom no amount of shaking or pinching will silence or, generally, even interrupt.
The poor man, as in his somnambulic state he retraced the series of his dreams, remembered the precise instant when this lamentable event took place.
This new state is often preceded or accompanied by something of somnambulic change.
We have also the parallel of somnambulic utterance.
This is one of the ways in which we can watch the gradual merging of a vivid dream into a definite somnambulic act.
Those who saw her more closely observed that she was plainly in the somnambulic state, and was wandering about and muttering.
There are cases[92] in which the somnambulic personality is discerned throughout as a wiser self--advising a treatment, or at least foreseeing future developments of the disease with great particularity.
Frivolity and all unworthiness had reason to fear her, for she denounced them to the face, with somnambulic unconcern.
Her somnambulic utterances had told of her good faith, and of her belief in things truly human and divine.
Her somnambulic situation alternated with fever, hemorrhage, and night-sweats.
Later, in somnambulic state, she spoke of this day in the following verses.
He threw me into a somnambulic sleep, and sent me for the ring.
But sometimes I have a vivid dream, which I know, though I can give no proof of it, to be a reproduction of some previous somnambulic experience.
Mesnet made a report of his experience in hypnotism, showing that somnambulic or mesmeric subjects were not accountable for their acts in that condition.
This was not performed by her will, which was inactive in her somnambulic or cataleptic state, as well as her consciousness.
Glass and rock crystal had a powerful effect in waking her from the somnambulic state, or in exciting the force within her organism.
The mysterious and extreme phenomena were accentuated, and the value and genuineness of the entire somnambulic condition were made to rest upon the demonstrability of miracles.
Indeed, when he was confronted with Puységur's subjects in the somnambulic state, he regarded the production of this true hypnotic condition as foolish, and considered it to be only a subordinate phase of the magnetic crisis.
At this time, the painless extraction of a tooth from a patient in a somnambulic condition aroused considerable attention, especially as the operator, Dr.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "somnambulic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
