South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-07-14
SOmnambRlists.

THE sleep-walkers who go from roomto
room, and are very busy IN a sort of world
of their own, without actually composing
new music or writing new compositions,
are numerous. The Morning Chronicle, in
1922, gave an account of q canaan who
slept for a night at IN inn in York. Wish
ing to be called early next morning, and
knowing himself to be a heavy sleeDr-- M
directed the chamberma-d to cone into h;s
room and call him, If he I'D not hear her
knock at the dor, Wssine when the
u was Ugh in tie heavens, he felt Ger
TAN mat he mad slept far beyond the
proper time; but looking for his watch 20
know the hour, he found thai II was not
IN its place under the pillow, where he had
placed it He Jumped out OF bed to dress.
but his clothes were gone; and, looking
round, he found himselfin a strange room.
He rang the bell; the chanbermaid an
peared, and then he found that he had, at
some early hour in the morning, left his
bed and wandered il a somnambulistic
sleep into another room; for when the
maid came to call him he ives not in his
proper room. Wienholt relates the case of
a student who, when in q somnambulistic
state, was wont to leave his bed, 90 to the
parlor or to his study, take out pen, ink
and paper, place music in its proper posi-
ton on the ~piano-forte, an play a whole
piece through with his eyes shut. His
friends once turned the music upside-down
while he was playing. lie somehow de-
tected the change, and replaced The paper
In the proper position On another occa-
sion his ear detected a note out of tune;
he tuned the string, and went on again.
On a third occasion he wrote g letter to
his brother, rational and legible to a GER
point; but it was singular to observe that
he continued to write after the pen had
lost its ink, making al the proper move
ments without being conscious that he
made no marks on the paper. a case is
on record of a young lady who, when I'M
der the influence of a particular nervous
complaint, would walk about the house in
a state of sleep, or coma, steering her way
safely between the articles of furniture.
and even avoiding objects purposely placed
to obstruct her path. Her eyes were omen.
but she evidently did not see through them
in the ordinary sense; for she entirely dis
regarded strong lights held close to her
eyes, and even a finger that was actually
placed against the eyeOall. Physicians
are acquainted with many evidences of
persons who do MT see with the eyes. hut
have some unexplained kind of vision in
certain morbid states of the nervous sys-
TEN.
Those s~omnambulists who wander about
in streets and roads, or like Amina, in
Bellinis opera) walk along planks in
perilous situations, have the muscular
sense, whatever it may be, effectively
awake. Doctor Carpenter notices. nj
some length, "the sleep walkers who
make their way Yer the roofs of houses
steadily traverse narrow planks, and even
Chamber precipices; and this they do with
far less hesitation than they would do in
the waking state" The sense of fear is
asleep, whatever else may be awake. Some
somnambulists start of while asleep to at
tend to their regular work, though under
very irregular circumstances. Not yerv
many years ago a working stone-mason in