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(archaic) One in a state of magnetic or mesmeric sleep; someone in a hypnotic trance..
I once asked a sleepwaker whether she could perceive any analogy between animal and mineral magnetism, when she replied, ' There is an analogy — but the latter is of a coarser nature.'
Another sleepwaker informed her magnetiser that if he would breathe upon his hand, and then lay it on her forehead, his power would be increased.
A lady present when Mademoiselle M——had been mesmerized by me, went up to the sleepwaker and spoke to her for some time.
As I have before said, he had been, in shildhood, a natural sleepwaker; and I now add , on the testimony of his father, that he would sometimes rise in the night, take out his flute, ( an instru- ment which he was studying professionally,) place music before him, and play from notes, continuing to turn over the leaves of the music-book correctly, although his eyes were closely shut.
He begins to speak, arises from his bed, walks about, and now becomes a sleepwaker.
In addition, about 4 million Americans are occasional or habitual sleepwakers.
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Sleepwaker means (archaic) One in a state of magnetic or mesmeric sleep; someone in a hypnotic trance..
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I once asked a sleepwaker whether she could perceive any analogy between animal and mineral magnetism, when she replied, ' There is an analogy — but the latter is of a coarser nature.'
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