. Hypnotism, its facts, theories, and related phenomena;. is most bent duringthe day. If persons during sleep speak loudly, we may be sureit is of matters which, during the daytime, puzzled their a person is a sleep-walker, he performs -while asleep actionssimilar to those which occupies him in the daytime. We can,therefore, with perfect right, in general, proceed from this fact,that a person who during sleep makes an assault on somebodyslife, thereby signifies and reveals the secret thoughts of his day-life. This is generally the case -with apparently strong andhealthy persons as far
. Hypnotism, its facts, theories, and related phenomena;. is most bent duringthe day. If persons during sleep speak loudly, we may be sureit is of matters which, during the daytime, puzzled their a person is a sleep-walker, he performs -while asleep actionssimilar to those which occupies him in the daytime. We can,therefore, with perfect right, in general, proceed from this fact,that a person who during sleep makes an assault on somebodyslife, thereby signifies and reveals the secret thoughts of his day-life. This is generally the case -with apparently strong andhealthy persons as far as the body and soul are concerned, whomwe do not suspect as suffering from advancing insanity, hys-teria or epilepsy. With persons suffering from these mentaldisorders we could very soon, during their sleep, become awareof things which would stamp them very badly, if we believedeverything said or done by them during their sleep, to be a sig-nification of their true character. Such sufferers could by no NATURAL SOMNAMBULISM OR SLEEP-WALKING. 201 ^::^x-. SOMNAMBULIST PLAYING WHILE ASLEEP. 202 NATURAL SOMNAMBULISM OR SLEEP-WALKING. means be held responsible for their actions whether in awake orsleeping condition. We all know about the silly ideas they areyielding to ; they are easily scared, even when dreaming ; theybecome confused; their thoughts are deranged; they screamaloud during their sleep, and believe themselves attacked bywild beasts or horrible monsters. Contrary to this, the normalsleep-walker goes about carefully, in pleasant dreams andseems to throw an air of scientific interest into the task he per-forms. During this condition his intellect and sense is consider-ably increased; while on the contrary it is removed to a farlower step with the other kind of somnambulists during the nor-mal sleep. It is, therefore, natural that a person who has com-mitted some bad action during his sleep, can not be altogetherexcused as he has, what numerous observations clearly show,o
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