The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-01
WALK WHILE ASLEEP
SOME OF THE PHENOMENA OF
 soMNAMBULISM.
Those Afflicted with the Habit Per form Dangerous Feats-some Az
 pear Gifted With Faculty :. of Second Sight.

Ladies Home Journal.
 An interesting c2Ge ot somnampul- ism is reported by M. Badaire. director vf the normal school at Blois. It IS accredited by Dr. Dufay and printed in The Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research"
 The ophile Janicaud was pupil at the normal school and in the Lanth of July of his second year he com menced to walk in his sleep. He not only walked about the dormitory, put he also went to his stuGy and worked at his lessons in the dark, or amused himself in the garden examining ana picking flowers, sometimes for hours at a time. Then, without waking, he would return to his bed and in the morning know nothing Of these occur Tences.
 One night, notwithstanding careful watching. Janicaud left the dormitory without being noticed. The next morning he was in bed, but his pillow and watch were missing. It was at once surmised that he mad been out during the night and search was made all through the buildings and the gar den for the missing articles, but with put success. At last something white was observed on the zinc roof of the infirmary, and on inspection it pSoved to be Janicaud's pillow, which he had put there in the night, and With it. his watch and a bunch of flowers which he had gathered from the garden. It was a perileus route which the som- nambulist must have taken both in ascending and descending. one which he would never have dared to attempt In his waking state.
 These nocturnal expeditions became SO frequent and perilous that it was necessary to secure him by paddock and chain. But even this was not sufficient, for he managed to get his hands through the wristlets, and on one occasion he cut a piece of wood from the window casing and from 1t modelled a key with his knife. with which he undid the lock, all in his sleep and made his escape.
 Walked in Perilous Places.
 M.. ,Badaire's father in-law lived in vendome, and his little son was there with his grandparents. One evening about Il o'clock JanicaLd, having es- capped from his dormftory, came to NJ. Badaire's bedroom door and knocked. "I have come to bring you news of your family. NJ. and Mme.4 Arnauit are we'll and your little son has four teeth"
 "As you have seen them at Ven dome" suggested NJ. Badaire, per haps you could go back and tell me where they are now
 Well" said Jan!caud. T am there! They are sleeping in a room on the first floor; their bed is at the further end of the room at the left. The nurses bed is to the right and Henry's cradle close to 1t.
 This was all exactly true and during the next morning NJ. Badaire received a note from Vendome informing him that his little son had just cut his fourth tooth.
 One night Janicaud suddenly jump ed out of bed. and, turning to one of his companions, said: See, Roullet, how careless you are: I told you to shut the door of the bookbinding shop, but you did not, and now a cat has just knocked over the dish of paste and 1t is broken into fine pieces.
 Someone went at once to the work shop and found everything as Jani cauld had said.
 On another occasion he got up in the night determined to go fishing. His brother-in-law M. Simonet. decided to accompany him. but before starting he succeeded in inducing him to alter his plans and go and visit a relative in- stead. Accordingly this was done, Janicaud remaining fast asleep and undisturbed by the barking dogs or the fatigue of a long walk. ....
 Wonderful Gift of Sight.
 Finally he was ready to return, and on the way, coming to a narrow and dangerous path close to the river, his brother-in-law cautioned him to go carefully in the darkness. Janicaud. with some scorn, declared that he could see the better of the tow. and to prove 1t asked Simonet of he could see the match under his foot. Simonet felt under his foot, and, sure enough there was the match. It was a dark night, and, besides. Janicaud was some thirty fet ahead of him and had his night can drawn closely over this face.
 NJ. Badaire also states that in his natural state Janicaud has an uncer- .ain memory. but on several occasions when studying history while asleep the assistant master has taken the book from the somnambulist and he has then repeated five or six pages. which he had just read, word for word. with perfect accuracy.
 When awake Janicaud has no recol- lection of anything that he has said o~ done in his slenp- walking state. Rut Tn eacn attaCK ne remeHlDfTS pe'- fectly all that occurred in the preced- ing ones.
 Tn short. in somna mhulism we have a Street parallel to the condition of double personality. As seen in many somnambulistS however, there Is a peculiar, perceptive mower rakir9 hCth rhvsical and rrent7I facultiOe and Pv"n adding certain Tower7 of persecution These. on account of their rarity we cal Fupernatura'.
 This double pereNral't". then. which we have ben considering. is no form of insanity pc has sometimes h"en supposed And while We may call ii snpernornaI. in the sense tHat it is unusual. i { s hy m tre3ns surar- natural II is nart of the normal mird-a wonderfully interesting part and one which we are just heginnins to learn something about. It is called nv various names-the second nerson- ality or c1nsnioueress. -Ae subcon- scious mind and the subliminal self.
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