What does sleepwalker mean?
Sleepwalker means A somnambulist; one who walks, or is active, while asleep..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A somnambulist; one who walks, or is active, while asleep..
Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.
Ashley looked dull as a sleepwalker and, as he came to her and put his hand upon her arm, he spoke like a sleepwalker.
Second, in the "hypnotized" subject, but not in the sleepwalker, characteristics such as a blank stare, a rigid facial expression, and an unwillingnes to talk have been produced by suggestions to become relaxed, drowsy, and sleepy and they can be easily removed by suggestions — for example, by suggestions to be alert.
I was a sleepwalker, incapable of controlling or recalling my nocturnal activities.
Consider, for example, the sleepwalker who goes into her neighbor's yard, takes an apple from the tree, and eats it .
Though the sleepwalker sat with closely bandaged and wadded eyes, and his back to the grimacing part of the company, he described everything they were doing with the most comic humour, and he asked, 'What in the world is that gentleman in the chair making such faces for, and what is he giving himself such trouble about? […]"
But the sleepwalker does much that is correct . The magnetic somnambulists are not dreaming ~ such that there is an accidental connection of images;~rather they know of themselves what they are, but as feeling beings they know this through their genius.
CALIGARI (Relaxing a bit.) I would like to apply for a permit to present my exhibit at your fair. CLERK. Oh. Then you're here to make money rather than to spend it. (Sighs) What kind of exhibit? CALIGARI. A somnambulist. CLERK. A somn-what? CALIGARI. A somnambulist, a sleepwalker.
Use sleepwalker when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Sleepwalker means A somnambulist; one who walks, or is active, while asleep..
Common synonyms include somnambulist, noctambulist.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.
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