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Sleep walking or night wandering, known also by its Latin name of
noctambulism, is a well-known phenomenon. Somnambulism is not so
good a term for it, since that signifies too many things. In sleep
walking a person rises from his bed in the night, apparently
asleep, walks around with closed or half opened eyes, but without
perceiving anything, yet performs all sorts of apparently
purposeful and often quite complicated actions and gives correct
answers to questions, without afterward the least knowledge of what
he has said or done. If this all happens at the very time and under
the influence of the full moon, it is spoken of as moon walking or
being moonstruck. Under the influence of this heavenly body the
moonstruck individual is actually enticed from his bed, often gazes
fixedly at the moon, stands at the window or climbs out of it,
"with the surefootedness of the sleep walker," climbs up upon the
roof and walks about there or, without stumbling, goes into the
open. In short, he carries out all sorts of complex actions. Only
it would be dangerous to call the wanderer by name, for then he
would not only waken where he was, but he would collapse frequently
and fall headlong with fright if he found himself on a height.
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