628 SLEEP-WAKING. 



various degrees of imperfection ; some of his intellectual faculties 

 are highly active, and this in various degrees, while others are in 

 complete torpidity ; and the various inclinations and emotions 

 may be all inactive or one or more active in various degrees : 

 volition may be exerted over the muscles so that the person 

 shall talk, or walk, and execute various movements, or shall 

 dwell upon ideas at pleasure, and reason and compose, without 

 any general intelligence, so as to be in reality still asleep. Just 

 as occasionally in insanity and in ordinary dreams, an intellec- 

 tual faculty is sometimes heightened; and sometimes muscular 

 strength, or more properly the force of volition over the muscles. 

 Generally the whole is forgotten : sometimes remembered ; some- 

 times remembered and mistaken for reality ; and sometimes re- 

 membered only when the same state returns. When persons 

 use their muscles, there must be that internal feeling which ac- 

 companies all muscular exertion (p. 527.), there must be the 

 feeling of weight and resistance. I saw the sleep-waking con- 

 dition strikingly exhibited lately in a patient of mine in Uni- 

 versity College Hospital, a girl, sixteen years of age, destitute 

 of the sense of smell as long as she could remember, subject to 

 pain of her vertex, and, like a sister, epileptic, though very in- 

 telligent, very facetious, and of excellent behaviour. After the 

 Baron Dupotet, passing the ends of his fingers up and down before 

 her, had sent her to sleep, on many occasions, for a few minutes 

 at a time, she was observed one day suddenly to talk uncon- 

 nectedly and move her arms and hands about, though incapable 

 of hearing, seeing, or feeling. She lay in bed or sat, with her 

 eyes open, saying a great number of things, such as she might 

 say when awake, told stories, and with great expression of voice, 

 features, and manner, mimicked the voices and conversation 

 of many fellow-patients accurately, and mimicked the manipula- 

 tions of Baron Dupotet ; yet she saw nobody, could not be roused 

 by hallooing in her ear, and bore the sharpest pinches with 

 indifference. She was cross, expressed displeasure at having 

 before been magnetised, said she would not be made a fool of, 

 complained of different things, shook her head, moving it forwards 

 and frowning, and saying, " You dirty beast." Her hands were 

 very cold in such attacks, and her whole surface pale. She would 

 suddenly come out of this state, stare about like a person waking, 

 rub her eyes, become still, smile, and be completely herself without 



