Since Vogl praised his friend for his clairvoyance and
somnambulism, writers starting with Fink have framed Schubert's music in terms of what it lacks (in relation to the classical harmonic axis).
Reverie, according to Darwin, is an umbrella term under which
somnambulism and erotomania are often categorized.
Brown's "
Somnambulism" and Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" serve as microcosms through which to explore the continuities and diversions found in their authors' Gothic practices.
Either one is acceptable today as a depth test just before the "lose the numbers" amnesia test for
somnambulism. Today, the "wet dish rag" drop of the hand and arm is used in place of the rigid arm.
Just what the troubled Aaron needs; his gran is suffering dementia, he struggles with nightmares and
somnambulism (another rare subject in children's fiction) and both are antagonized by low-life neighbours in the caravan park with whom the manager sides in their frequent skirmishes.
In her examination of the scientific notions that influenced the work of these artists, Morton makes clear the convergence of manifestations of the unconscious (in dream, hypnotism, and
somnambulism) with the regressive character of human drives and our evolutionary origins.
Brown uses random members of the crowd, as they participate in all manner of experiments and demonstrations, including the Victorian phenomena of
somnambulism and the spooky Spirit Cabinet.
For example, in the deep state of hypnosis which is called
somnambulism, the hypnotist gives a post-hypnotic suggestion that after hypnosis the subject will not be able to see a specific object.
* Sleepwalking or
somnambulism: Engaging in activities that are normally associated with wakefulness (such as eating or dressing), which may include walking, without the conscious knowledge of the subject.
The Caligari figure -- as Francis tells the story, anyway -- is a psychiatrist whose clinical obsessions with
somnambulism drive him to pathological murder.
Just as the flaneur wakes up from the
somnambulism of Parisian street life by breaking with the set patterns of movement and practises of consumption and wealth display expected in the arcades, Benjamin works in his texts to wake us as readers through the deployment of sets of vivid, precise, and deeply idiosyncratic images.
Here is a shorter example: Books speak in the middle of the night just as the river speaks, quietly and reluctantly, or perhaps the reluctance stems from our own weariness or our own
somnambulism and our own dreams, even though we are or believe ourselves to be wide awake.