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fixed and open. I placed different obstacles in his way, which 

 he removed with his hand, or carefully avoided ; then he threw 

 himself suddenly on his bed, was agitated there some time, and 

 at length awoke and sat up, very much astonished at the number 

 of curious persons who were about him." 



Here was a certain amount of sight and touch, and sense of re- 

 sistance and weight ; all was forgotten ; the changes were sudden. 



" M. Joseph de Roggenbach, at Friburg in Brisgau," continues 

 Gall, " told me, in the presence of many witnesses, that he had 

 been a somnambulist from his infancy. In this state his tutor 

 had frequently made him read; made him look for places on 

 the map, and he found them more readily than when awake ; his 

 eyes were always open and fixed ; he did not move them, but 

 turned his whole head. Many times they held him, but he felt 

 the restraint, endeavoured to liberate himself, but did not wake. 

 Sometimes he said he should wake if they led him into the 

 garden, and this always happened." 



Here was a certain amount of sight, touch, and feeling of re- 

 sistance and weight; an increase of one mental power ; and a certain 

 power of prediction ; he moved, not his eyes, but his whole head. 



" I knew also the history of a miller, who, dreaming and with 

 his eyes open, would go into his mill, enter upon his usual daily 

 occupation, return to bed by the side of his wife, without re- 

 membering in the morning any thing he had done in the night." a 



Here was a certain degree of sight, and feeling of resistance 

 and weight ; and all was forgotten. 



M, Martinet speaks of a saddler accustomed to rise in his 

 sleep and work at his trade b : and Professor Upham of an Ame- 

 rican farmer who rose in his sleep, went to his barn, and threshed 

 out five bushels of rye in the dark, separating the grain from the 

 straw with great exactness. 



These are examples of sleep-walking. 



The following are examples of sleep-talking, or sleep-talking 

 and sleep-walking : 



" Dr. Blacklock, the blind poet, on one occasion rose from his 

 bed, to which he had retired at an early hour, came into the 

 room where his family were assembled, conversed with them, and 



a 11. cc. 4to. vol. ii. p. 456. sqq. ; 8vo. t. ii. p. 510. sqq. 



f Bibliotheque Medicale. c Isis revelata, vol. i. p. 313. sq. 



