The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-08-11
THE SLEEPWALKER.
THERE ARE SAID TO BE FOUR KINDS
OF SOMNAMBULISM.

Stories of Curious Things Done by Those
Addicted to the Habit-The Boy Who
Went distinguishes of Sleepwairing
Which Had Fatal Results.
According to scientists, there are four
kinds of somnambulisln:
Those who talk while sleeping, but
do not walk Or otherwise act.
Those who walk or otherwise act while
sleeping, but do not talk.
Those who both act and talk while
sleeping.
Those who act and talk and have the
senses of touch, sight and hearing, and
it is alleged, in some instances, the
senses Of taste and smell.
This fourth kind is never found ex-
cept when induced by mesmeric or hyp-
MOTTO influences.
1t is of the third kind that there are
most queer developments, independent
of voluntary external influences. Often
the somnambulist will rise in the night
and walk through the various rooms of
the house, go ont on porticos, and, in
some cases, on steep roofs, where he
would not dare go when awake. FIRE.
quently he will leave the house and
walk through street or field and will
return and go to bed without knowl-
edge of anything having transpired.
The celebrated French physician, Bern
helm, tells in his work on Suggestive
Therapeutics, OF . photographer of his
acquaintance who rose in the night and
finished tho wc.'lz on which he had been
engaged during the previous day and
was astonished on finding it finished
when he went to work on the following
morning. Painters have been known
to do superior work while asleep, and
essays have been written and poems
composed in the same way.
A young countryman related an incl
dent occurring in his own family. His
brother was sleepwalker and also fond
of fishing. For number of nights in
succession he would get up and go down
through a long meadow to creek and
seize the root Of walnut tree growing
on the bank and pull and tug with all
his might and at the same time calling
for the hired man to help him land a
big fish. 81 had heard" said his BROTH
er, "that it would break sleepwalker
of the habit to wake him suddenly when
he was out rambling about, and l de-
cided to try its efficacy on my brother.
One night followed him when he left
the house. As passed by the woodward
I picked up the ak. and when we got to
the creek and he began Juggling at his
imaginary fish cut the root and let
him fall backward into about two feet
of not very warm water. He came out a
badly disorganized and somewhat fright
ened boy. I have never heard Of him
going fishing or otherwise walking in
his sleep since his ducking.'
Sometimes sleepwalkers go over places
where they would not dare go when
awake, and the fact that such things are
frequently done with safety has led
many to believe that they never hurt
themselves. Ordinarily that may be
true, but there is at least one authentic
record of one death resulting in that
way The sleepwalker walked off a high
portioo and died from the fall.
One of the most singular and at the
same time sad cases Of sleepwalking &C.
Cured near Bakersville, N. c., % few
years ago. A young man of the name
of Garland had been a sleepwalker from
childhood. His ra1nblings had always
ended without harm to himself or others,
and for that reason his wife usually
paid little attention to his nocturnal &C.
centricities. But new phase presented
itself when he began to stay away longer
at time and always return 'wringine
wet" as the washerwomen say. His
| wife determined to follow him and ex
| plore the mystery. When he left his
house, he followed the road to Tow riv
or. and then took rough, narrow pig
trail leading up the river.
He picked his way through the tan
| gled hemlock and laurel and over stones
and fallen trees and along the summit
of precipitous cliffs. His wife kept il
sight by means Of the moonlight waver
ing through the trees. For more than
mile the sleeper trudged on until h.
came to large poplar tree which hat
fallen with its topmost limbs far out il
the river. He walked the log till h
came to large limb extending from i
over the water; then he got down ant
began crawling out on the limb. TIL
now thoroughly frightened wife scream
ed and called to him to wake up ant
come back. He was awakened by tn
cries, and, doubtless startled and con
fused by the situation, fell into the rive
and was drowned. He had been gettinl
up in his sleep, going up the river
crawling out on that limb, jumpin
from there into the river, swimming t
the bank and returning home uncon
scious of anything that passed.
These facts are we'll known to mum
Der Of people now in Washington. -
/ Washington Star.