Sleepwaker

I once asked a sleepwaker whether she could perceive any analogy between animal and mineral magnetism, when she replied, ' There is an analogy — but the latter is of a coarser nature.'

Another sleepwaker informed her magnetiser that if he would breathe upon his hand, and then lay it on her forehead, his power would be increased.

A lady present when Mademoiselle M——had been mesmerized by me, went up to the sleepwaker and spoke to her for some time.

As I have before said, he had been, in shildhood, a natural sleepwaker; and I now add , on the testimony of his father, that he would sometimes rise in the night, take out his flute, ( an instru- ment which he was studying professionally,) place music before him, and play from notes, continuing to turn over the leaves of the music-book correctly, although his eyes were closely shut.

He begins to speak, arises from his bed, walks about, and now becomes a sleepwaker.

In addition, about 4 million Americans are occasional or habitual sleepwakers.