Artificial Somnabulism

The Marquis de Puysegur learned the technique of mesmerism from Franz Mesmer and he compared the trance-like state which was brought about by so-called animal magnetism with sleep-walking and termed it as artificial somnambulism. This expression was used well into the 19th century by such people as Edinburgh professor of chemistry William Gregory, who also researched hypnotism. The Abbe de Faria calleed the same phenomenon as lucid sleep.

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