He states further, that somnambulists have been known to write and even to correct their compositions, and to do other acts which could not possibly have been performed without sight.
As regards the sense of hearing, it is doubtless true that somnambulists rarely exercise it.
While it is certainly true that somnambulists have done all these things, it is equally certain that they have often performed them without the aid of their eyes.
Footnote: The somnambulists also can prophesy of those events which are near at hand, but never of the distant.
Now the somnambulists of our day fulfil the second and third conditions without dispute; and some account for the divining power by saying it is the effect of the increased activity of the soul.
Footnote: It is well known that somnambulists never remember upon their recovery what they have uttered during the crisis.
However, besides somnambulists who during slumber simply repeat the usual acts of their life, there are others who do special things to which they are unaccustomed.
The thinking of somnambulists is given in plastic images which constantly break into this or that sense-sphere and are made objective in hallucinations.
The intellectual elevation which certain somnambulists display in ecstasy, though a rare thing, is none the less one that has sometimes been observed.
Some somnambulists ride their own animals, while others are content to bestride the steeds of strangers.
The other somnambulists then took the mule safely back to his corral, and the tragedy of a night was over.
Night came again at last, and with it other somnambulists similar to the first, only that they were riding on their own beasts.
Bosio started uneasily, though like most Neapolitans, he had visitedsomnambulists more than once.
There was nothing at all unnatural in the name or the profession, in Naples, where somnambulists are plentiful enough.
Thus stand the somnambulists convicted by their own creed--only they are not real men, alive and awake, and they proceed to mutter magic phrases that dispel all doubt as to their undiminished and eternal gloriousness.
It also should be observed that although somnambulists will light a candle, it does not follow that they are guided by its light, or that they really see any thing by it.
We conceive, therefore, that somnambulists who may be considered in a state of preternaturally profound sleep, ought not to be forcibly awakened.
Some somnambulists have not been able to distinguish wine from water.
Most of us have read of, if not witnessed, the perilous walkings of somnambulists over housetops and in difficult places, and wondered that a man in his sleep should be able to pass such narrow ledges with safety.
With the knowledge which we have acquired the feats of somnambulists are stripped of all mystery.
Other somnambulists also, as well as mesmerized persons, have seen the hair of persons shine with a multitude of sparks, while the breath of their mouth appeared as a faint luminous mist.
When somnambulists are asked why they keep their eyes shut, they answer: "I do not know what you mean; I see you perfectly well.
Many intelligent somnambulists have distinctly stated that they obey the will of their master and not his hands; that manipulation, in fact, merely serves to communicate this will to their inner sense.
Magnetic and miraculous cures differ not in their nature, but only in their first cause, precisely as the trance of somnambulists is identical with the trance of religious enthusiasts.
On the other hand, time is no more an obstacle than space, and genuine somnambulists have seen past and future events as well as distant scenes.
It has always been observed at night only, and most frequently at full moon, since the moon seems to affect somnambulists not merely by her light, but in each of the different phases in a peculiar manner.
The same author mentions somnambulists who in their sleep walked to the sea-shore and swam for some distance without being waked, and the case of a Norwegian who during his paroxysms took a boat and rowed himself about for some time.
This case is peculiarly interesting as proving that the perceptions of somnambulists are dependent upon conditions similar to those which govern the ordinary senses.
Kerner's house became an asylum for somnambulists as well as for real patients, and that by this mixture the scientific value of his observations, as regards their psychological interest, is seriously impaired.
There is no doubt but that in somnambulists the intellectual functions are not only active, but frequently more developed than when the individual is awake.
Somnambulists have distinguished with closed eyes objects placed before them.
In two somnambulists we witnessed the faculty of foreseeing acts of the organism to take place at periods more or less distant.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "somnambulists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
