Clairvoyance and somnambulism were carefully studied, and the curative powers of animal magnetism found many advocates(83).
Then she recollected that persons given to somnambulism never remember their experiences.
That night--it was after the funeral--his tendency to somnambulismmanifested itself.
Then "Oh, Hell with the 'monoideic somnambulism case'!
At last I learnt that her former mesmerisers, as bold in their practice as certain hypnotisers of to-day, had induced somnambulismat the time of her accouchements.
I at first thought there must have been an attack of spontaneous somnambulism between the moment when she finished the first letter and the moment when she closed the envelope.
In somnambulism it was further suggested that the cure was a perfect one and included the sense of taste.
The suggestions under somnambulism were repeated for ten days.
The first (Case 142) appears to have been cured by inducing deep somnambulism (Tombleson claims cures by suggestion in eight cases of hyperthyroidism).
In somnambulism he explained that he “had got round” the inhibition of the aura.
Under somnambulism the loss of symptoms was suggested and, April 17, the patient was well except for the loss of power in the arm and leg.
Under somnambulismthe suggestions were repeated, but on the evening of March 27 two more convulsions appeared.
He was again placed in somnambulism to last two days.
Tombleson induced deepsomnambulism at the first hypnotic sitting and suggested an increase of nerve strength and steadiness.
In somnambulism the disappearance of the analgesia was suggested, and it proved possible to make the man walk about without limp and without dragging the right foot.
With respect to frequency of immediate somnambulism for the first trial, P.
Victor Hugo, in one of his romances, speaks of the pensive somnambulism of the animals.
It was only when you were out in the open air that the condition which I have compared to somnambulism seemed at times to disappear.
But this somnambulism would every now and then change and pass into a consciousness which I can only compare with that of a child.
The somnambulism often starts as an exaggerated dream; it develops into a kind of secondary personality.
I have already said that morbid somnambulism bears to sound sleep a relation something like that which hysteria bears to normal life.
It will be seen that hypnotic suggestion intensifies the physical recuperation of sleep, and aids the emergence of those supernormal phenomena which ordinary sleep and spontaneous somnambulism sometimes exhibit.
To them we must now turn, if our account of the phenomena of induced somnambulism is to be complete.
Next let us turn from natural to induced sleep-waking, from idiopathic somnambulism to the hypnotic trance.
The records of spontaneous somnambulism are full of predictions made by the subject as to his own case, and accomplished, presumably by self-suggestion, but without help from clocks, at the precise minute foretold.
We must be content (at first at any rate) if we can affect the personality in the same limited way as hysteria and somnambulism have affected it; but yet can act deliberately and usefully where these have acted hurtfully and at random.
Bearing these analogies in mind, we shall see that the development ofsomnambulism out of ordinary dream is no isolated oddity.
In talking with a somnambulist, be thesomnambulism natural or induced, we find it hard to get into continuous colloquy on our own subjects.
In the first place we cannot doubt that definite data already known may sometimes be treated in somnambulismor ordinary dream with more than waking intelligence.
Somnambulism is a form of half-waking trance which usually comes on during the night, and in ordinary sleep.
These cases will give an idea of somnambulism as it has been witnessed by other observers, or as its phenomena have impressed them.
My own views of the nature of somnambulism will appear in the course of the following remarks.
A particular nervous temperament which predisposes individuals otherwise in good health to paroxysms of somnambulism during their ordinary sleep.
The same author also quotes from Franck the case of a Jewish tailor, who, during the attacks of somnambulism to which he was subject, recited in a low voice his customary prayers in Hebrew.
In my opinion, somnambulism is a condition of the organism in which through profound sleep the action of the encephalic ganglia is so materially lessened that the spinal cord becomes able to control and direct the body in its movements.
In artificial somnambulism--the hypnotism of Braid--the spinal cord acquires a very high degree of susceptibility to sensorial impressions, and the brain is even more incapable than in natural somnambulism of asserting its superiority.
Bertrand[119] refers to the case of a young lady who was accustomed to rise from her bed in a state of somnambulismand to write in complete darkness.
Somnambulism is clearly a condition of exaltation in the functions of the spinal cord without the controlling influence of the cerebrum being brought into action.
Certain other morbid phenomena, such as somnambulism and nightmare, which have a necessary relation with sleep, will be more appropriately considered in another place.
In this fact it appears to me we have a strong argument in favor of the theory of somnambulism which I have already referred to, and which appears to me to be supported by much additional evidence.
I shall simplify his arrangement by dividing the several kinds of somnambulism into two classes--the natural and artificial.
In the introduction to his classical work on the subject under consideration, Bertrand[110] classifies the different kinds of somnambulism according to their causes.
In inspiration it is as though a strange personality were speaking to the author; in somnambulism it is the stranger himself who talks or holds the pen, who speaks or writes--in a word, does the work.
Resemblances to hypermnesia, the initial state of alcoholic intoxication and somnambulism on waking.
With greater reason it has been sought to explain inspiration by comparison with certain forms of somnambulism, and it has been said that "it is only the lowest degree of the latter state, somnambulism in a waking state.
Somnambulism may assume such a serious phase as to result in the commission of murder.
The worst phase of his somnambulismwas the impending fears and terrible visions to which he was subjected.
The marvelous manifestations of somnambulismare still among the more surprising phenomena with which science has to deal.
According to a prominent New York paper, one of the most singular and at the same time sad cases of somnambulism occurred a few years ago near Bakersville, N.
The state of the eyes during somnambulism varies considerably.
It would require a volume to relate the wonders of artificial somnambulism produced by Animal Magnetism, i.
But a more familiar instance of somnambulism is that of a deceased Hampshire Baronet.
The poor girl was found quietly asleep in bed; and her terror on waking in the dreaded chamber, afforded sufficient evidence to all present of the state of somnambulism in which she had been entranced.
Natural somnambulism comes without warning, and illustrates the condition induced by mesmeric passes.
The facts of clairvoyance, trance, somnambulismand psychometry prove the existence of this ether, and are correlated to it.
That is impossible, for simulation and somnambulism are not reciprocally exclusive terms, and Monsieur Pitres has established the fact that a subject who sleeps may still simulate.
I was astonished, not so much about the particular circumstances of this incident, as about somnambulism in general, of which till then I had known nothing.
My friend, on the other hand, assured me that somnambulism was a common occurrence with him, and that it meant nothing, but that the circumstance of the Hilchoth Abheloth made him forebode some misfortune.
A deaf and dumb idiot became intelligent and spoke during spontaneoussomnambulism (Steinbach's Der Dichter ein Seher).
He also mentions a servant girl, quite uneducated and of ordinary intelligence, who nevertheless became a veritable philosopher during mesmeric somnambulism and delivered learned discourses on lofty problems dealing with cosmogony.
I have never practised somnambulismbefore or since.
We may plunge them into a condition of somnambulism which we will call a second state; and then, from that, magnetize them over again into another somnambulism, which we call the third state.
Thus we have the same difference between two successive stages of somnambulismas between the dream and the waking state.
This interpretation might be objected to upon the ground that unfortunately we know nothing of the origin of the motor phenomena of the dream and that understanding of the hysterical and hypnotic somnambulism is deplorably lacking.
Somnambulism is not so good a term for it, since that signifies too many things.
The souvenir even in somnambulism only exists if the patient be oblivious to everything and replies automatically to questions, by the mechanical association of ideas without reflection, without the personal perception of what he is doing.
After a certain time, more or less long, and after diverse movements, the most usual of which seem to be muscular contractions of the face and pharynx, the sensitive enters into somnambulism and passes into the secondary state.
Is it possible to class phenomena of this kind with the commonplace phenomena of somnambulism and 'incarnation,' the only ones Janet has observed?
It is not a rare thing in spiritistic seances, for two or three persons to enter into a state of somnambulism at the same time.
Simple somnambulism is not unfrequently connected with magnetic somnambulism, and may occasionally be seen even in trances during daytime.
The idea that somnambulism was the effect of angelic or demoniac influences was once largely entertained, but has long since given way to more scientific views.
He ascribes all the phenomena of somnambulism to the purely physical activity of the nerves, and proposes to call his new physical science neururgy.
In spite of all these obstacles, magnetism, in its various branches of somnambulism and clairvoyance, of mesmerism and hypnotism, is universally acknowledged as a valuable doctrine, and has led to the publication of a copious literature.
