646 SLEEP-WAKING. 



consequence suddenly awoke, fell to the ground, and was killed 

 on the spot. z 



The curious occasional circumstance of our not remembering 

 the points of a dream till dreaming of the same things again, has 

 been strikingly noticed in sleep-waking. 



Hitter* describes a somnambulist boy, who, on waking, recol- 

 lected nothing that occurred in his sleep, but could talk of other 

 matters. On falling asleep again, he could resume his discourse 

 just where it had been interrupted by his waking ; on waking 

 again, he would know nothing that had transpired in his sleep, 

 but recollect what had been said to him last when awake ; and 

 thus, says the simple reporter, it appeared as if he had two souls, 

 one for the state of sleep, and the other for the period when he 

 was awake. My patient recollected the occurrences of her pa- 

 roxysms of extatic delirium in her paroxysms only. (Suprti, 

 p. 630.) 



Even in the mixed stupefaction and excitement of intoxication 

 the same phenomenon has presented itself. " Dr. Abel informed 

 me," says Mr. Combe, " of an Irish porter to a warehouse, who for- 

 got, when sober, what he had done when drunk : but, being drunk, 

 again recollected the transactions of his former state of intoxi- 

 cation. On one occasion, being drunk, he had lost a parcel of 

 some value, and in his sober moments could give no account of 

 it. Next time he was intoxicated, he recollected that he had left 

 the parcel at a certain house, and there being no address on it, 

 it had remained there safely, and was got on his calling for it." b 

 This man must have had two souls, one for his sober state, and one 

 for him when drunk. 



The paroxysms of intermitting insanity are sometimes followed 

 by oblivion of their events in the lucid interval, and a fresh 

 paroxysm brings them all to the memory. Here, of course, are 

 a rational soul and a mad soul in the same tenement. 



Shakspeare, aware of the frequency of the phenomenon in 

 sleep-walkers, represents Lady Macbeth as walking in her sleep 

 with her eyes open, though he makes the royal physician igno- 

 rantly infer that therefore she must be awake, and a gentlewoman 

 of the court know better, 



z Isis revelata, vol. i. p. 320. sq. 



a Psychological Magazine, vol. i. No. 1. p. 69; 



b A System of Phrenology, ed. iii. p. 521. 



