Sleepwalker

Quick meaning: Sleepwalker is a noun meaning A somnambulist; one who walks, or is active, while asleep.

Meaning

A somnambulist; one who walks, or is active, while asleep.

More Meanings

1. (figurative) One who goes though life in a state of obliviousness.
2. A person from whom a voodoo practitioner (a bocor) has taken over control of their mind, making them a zombie who must do the bocor's bidding.
3. (archaic) One in a state of magnetic or mesmeric sleep; someone in a hypnotic trance.

Example Sentences

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 .

Ashley looked dull as a sleepwalker and, as he came to her and put his hand upon her arm, he spoke like a sleepwalker.

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.

Word Forms

• sleepwalkers
• sleep-walker

Synonyms for sleepwalker

Depending on context, synonyms include somnambulist, noctambulist.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include somnambulist, noctambulist, somnambulator, sleeptalker, noctambule, noctambulo.

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