All must be an idealisation of speech, and at some moment of passionate action or somnambulistic reverie.
I approached my writing desk, opened a certain drawer with no definite intention but as if with somnambulistic certainty, and the first thing I found is the book so long mislaid.
Their style is invariably the same as that in which ecstatic and somnambulistic persons are apt to speak.
The so-called sabbaths were somnambulistic visions, appearing to poor deluded creatures while in a state of trance, which they had produced by narcotic ointments, vile decoctions, or even mere mental effort.
In order to put an end to the somnambulistic condition, one must press softly upon the pupil of the eye, upon which the subject becomes lethargic, and is easily roused by breathing upon him.
Finally, the somnambulistic condition proceeds from catalepsy or from lethargy by means of a slight pressure upon the vertex, and is particularly sensitive to every psychical influence.
There are many interesting phenomena which can be elicited in the somnambulistic state.
The reader should not memorize verbatim any of the tests involved in proving the somnambulistic state.
Understanding some of the psychology involved and assuming the right psychological frame of mind for the attainment of the somnambulistic state is more important than just working blindly in an attempt to get the somnambulistic tests to work.
Naturally, the unsuspecting subject equated the period of not remembering, which was, as we know, true sleep, with the somnambulistic state.
It is not imperative or vital to reach the somnambulistic stage for therapeutic results.
Most students of hypnosis equate the phenomenon of amnesia with the somnambulistic state.
By your suggestions of hypnotic sleep, you can place your subject in the somnambulistic state very easily.
It is natural to assume that if you are willing and trying to go into the lethargic, cataleptic or somnambulistic state, you will be able to do so in a relatively short period of time.
They don't just plunge into the cataleptic or somnambulisticstages immediately.
I know the reader is anxious to begin his conditioning for the somnambulistic state, but there are still a few pertinent remarks which should be remembered before proceeding further.
This is known as an olfactory illusion and should you be able to create this effect, you can be sure that you are a somnambulistic subject.
In the deep, somnambulistic state, the subject can open his eyes without affecting the depth of the hypnotic state.
Chapter 9 Techniques for Reaching the Somnambulistic State As indicated in the last chapter, the attainment of the somnambulistic stage of hypnosis can represent an extremely intricate procedure.
We know that withsomnambulistic subjects any procedure will put the subject under hypnosis immediately.
It is well to remember that you guide yourself toward the somnambulistic state, depending upon your belief and acceptance of those principles that have been outlined for you.
Spontaneous somnambulistic states become longer in duration, more coherent in content, and may gradually merge, as in the well-known case of Félida X.
Brown, appearing to his neighbours and customers as an ordinary normal person, but being, as it would seem, in a somnambulistic condition all the while.
The somnambulistic and mesmeric states would seem to be substantially identical, although the latter involves a relation of subjection to the will of another which is not necessary, though possible, at least in some degree, to the former.
Somnambulism very frequently produces the phenomenon of the exaltation of the natural powers; for instance, when in a somnambulistic state, the singer sings more sweetly, the dancer dances more gracefully, than in their normal condition.
Clergymen have been known to compose their sermons in the somnambulistic condition, and to read them over to correct mistakes in style or in spelling.
In this case the abnormality was hereditary in the family, and the two daughters of one of the brothers were alsosomnambulistic and had control over the muscles of the ears.
At this time there was no opportunity of seeing any at the University; for even if a promising mesmeric operator had been to be found, there did not appear to be any one with any disposition to become somnambulistic or clairvoyant.
Well-sounding verses have the power of inducing a species of somnambulistic intoxication; but this is very much like the effect of the sound of a mill, or of other similar, regular and monotonous noises.
So that probably his somnambulistic love-affair ended satisfactorily enough.
Before the age of puberty, however, the differential peculiarities of sex are not sufficient to produce any great preponderance in either direction; and small boys are, therefore, perhaps as frequently somnambulistic as their little sisters.
It is the difference between sleep in a healthy, normal subject, and sleep as modified by the somnambulistic temperament.
They serve the men who lead the commercial life, give to their sons somnambulistic educations, preach that sleep-walking is the only way to walk, and that the persons who walk otherwise are atavisms or anarchists.
The prize-fighting apes and tigers will die all in good time in the course of natural evolution, but they will not die so long as the cowardly, somnambulistic apes and tigers club and scratch and slash.
Immediately, however, as I began to waken, I asked myself in what that consisted and, now that thesomnambulistic state was over, the answer must be due me.
Also, "The case of a girl who was sexually mishandled in the somnambulistic condition.
Needless to say (adds Janet), there never had been any obstruction in the nose; the truth was that in the somnambulistic state he was reminded of a subconscious fixed idea of which he was ordinarily unaware.
You may have fallen into a normal sleep there when you had finished, or you may have been awakened directly from your somnambulistic trance on the arrival of your co-workers.
It is possible to do routine tasks in a somnambulistic state rapidly and even feverishly, with an intense concentration--to perform prodigies.
But that there were within him cryptopsychic gifts of telepathy, clair-audience, and divination, a somnambulistic consciousness of a reality other than that which is cognisable to the senses, no student of psychic forces can doubt.
By an equally strong psychic disturbance the girl is impelled to go in a somnambulistic state to the hilltop.
The Portent, by George MacDonald, is a curious study of hypnotic influence, of a woman who is her true self only when in a somnambulistic state.
While she was in the somnambulisticstate he told her in her right ear that the weather was very fine, and at the same time another person whispered in her left ear that it was raining.
In the somnambulistic stage patients are manipulated by speaking to them; in the cataleptic stage they are equally under the will of the operator; but now he controls them by gesture.
In the somnambulistic stage the patient is no longer an automaton merely, but a real personality, "an individual with his own character, his likes and dislikes.
This is, however, a verging toward thesomnambulistic stage, for in deep catalepsy the patient does not speak or hear.
The patient was hypnotized every morning, and the first degree (that of lethargy), then the cataleptic, and finally the somnambulistic states were produced.
Patients in the cataleptic state can be brought into the somnambulistic by rubbing the top of the head.
Men do unaccountable things in a somnambulistic state, but asleep they haven't wings any more than they have awake.
Those who saw her more closely observed that she was plainly in the somnambulistic state and was wandering about and muttering.
Horstius gives a history of three young brothers who became somnambulisticat the same epoch.
He was put on trial for murder, and some of the most remarkable facts of his somnambulistic feats were elicited in the evidence.
Quoted by Gray, Mesnet speaks of a suicidal attempt made in his presence by a somnambulistic woman.
At the time of the murder of his child, in a somnambulistic attack, he imagined that he saw a wild beast rise up from the floor and fly at his child, a babe of eighteen months.
There was evidently nothing dazed or somnambulistic about her now.
And to my surprise, I have also since learned that it was not the first somnambulistictheft I have been guilty of.
He had met her during her somnambulistic wanderings, and prejudiced her against me, and caused her to rob not only me but others, and surrender the stolen booty to him.
The phenomena that occur during the delirium of fever, where the normal consciousness is lost for the time being, are in some respects analogous to and in some respects different from those which occur during the somnambulistic condition.
And as they confess, in the somnambulistic state, that they deceive him, that vexes him, and he goes off and puts others to sleep.
You see that I am not in a somnambulistic state, and you must believe that it is wholly impossible for me to know the contents of what you are going to enclose in it.
She denies the whole thing, and I am obliged to admit that she does not remember getting up or even having conversed with us (it was just another somnambulistic state).
A latent somnambulistic consciousness, capable (the subject being in his normal state) of reading in the intellectual background of another man, his present and his past, and being able to divine the future.
Moreover, she possesses the power of realizing her own somnambulistic visions or those suggested by the company, simply by the process of externalizing them.
House of Zoroastre of Jupiter fromSomnambulistic Drawing by Victorien Sardou After page 26 Plate III.
House of Zoroastre of Jupiter from Somnambulistic Drawing by Victorien Sardou After page 26 Figure 1.
Let me remark, in the next place, that, during these experiments, she is generally in a half-awake condition which is somewhat similar to the hypnotic orsomnambulistic sleep.
Brother and sister joined in explaining that Dona Isabel was given to peculiar actions, especially after periods of excitement or anger, and that one of her eccentricities had taken the form of somnambulistic wanderings.
Nor, in view of her somnambulistic vagaries, was she greatly concerned to find, when she woke in the morning, that her slippers were stained and that her skirt was bedraggled with dew and filled with burs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "somnambulistic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
