. Hypnotism, its facts, theories, and related phenomena;. VARIABLY FORGET WHEN THEY AWAKE. The French hypnotist remarks properly : The differentqualifications that I have ascribed to somnambulism are veryseldom found united in one individual; only the last (loss ofrecollection on awaking) is a constant and particular evidenceof somnambulism. There are also somnambulists -whose eyes are open, who hearvery well, and who are in rapport with all the surroundings;but we must remember they are only in the second or third HYPNOTISM AS A REMEDY. 35 degree of hypnotism (and we know there are six degree
. Hypnotism, its facts, theories, and related phenomena;. VARIABLY FORGET WHEN THEY AWAKE. The French hypnotist remarks properly : The differentqualifications that I have ascribed to somnambulism are veryseldom found united in one individual; only the last (loss ofrecollection on awaking) is a constant and particular evidenceof somnambulism. There are also somnambulists -whose eyes are open, who hearvery well, and who are in rapport with all the surroundings;but we must remember they are only in the second or third HYPNOTISM AS A REMEDY. 35 degree of hypnotism (and we know there are six degrees).There are others in whom only one of the senses are strength-ened, and who only receive disturbed sense impressions, andlast, there are those who only speak or express themselves withthe utmost difficulty. But so far we have not been able to findone instance where the somnambulist has been able in a wakingcondition to recollect anything regarding his experiences in thesomnambulistic state. The above distinction is of more than ordinary importance, as. CATALEPSY IN EYELIDS AND HANDS—CANNOT CLOSE THEEYELIDS AND CANNOT OPEN THE HANDS. it draws a perceptible line between-the somnambulistic expres-sion and dreams. All the thoughts we have had while we slept, and those weremember on awaking, are only dreams. It is consequentlyfar from the truth that participation in somnambulistic phe-nomena tends to confirm the subjects belief; on the contrary, it 36 HYPNOTISM AS A REMEDY. assists in banishing that belief. This explains, also, how somecelebrated physicians in olden time have been able to establishthat the soul during sleep is in a better condition to describe thediseases and to predict dangers that threatened the had, however, investigated somnambulism quite thor-oughly ; but they had not been able to distinguish the differ-ence between somnambulism and normal sleep. Abbot Faria, a Portuguese priest (Brahmin he called him-self), immediately on his arrival in Paris fro
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