I just found out about this now and my mind is blown. I have a daughter, 10, who has struggled with sleeping since she has been out of a crib (and probably before, but it’s a bit blurry for me).
She used to have night terrors. Now she doesn’t really get up and scream or yell in terror, but does walk around and behaves weirdly (even has full conversations) while asleep. Every night.
She also can achieve a regular circadian time for about 4 days, but it also reverts back to falling asleep anywhere from 2-6 am. It doesn’t make a difference if I take away electronics.
I’ve been wondering for awhile if I’m just fighting nature and this is her natural state.
But I’m also very curious if sleepwalking/ talking is something others with this have experienced?
My last all-negative-perks playthrough (a couple of years ago) I don't recall Somnambulant actually firing all that often. I thought there was only a handful of times I ever woke up somewhere else..
This playthough though it seems to happen every other time I go to sleep.. mostly just short jumps though - the furthest has been going to sleep in Ledetchko and waking up at the mill in Rattay. Mostly not a great inconvenience, except I am playing on console and the load time sucks when it happens.
G’day RDR.
To continue my recent Lit-Fic trip, here’s an extract from yet another cerebral piece with an insufferable protagonist. A continuation of my project to learn how to provoke an audience to empathise with difficult characters. I’ve not a lot of preamble for this, but would like to say that I’m a bit unsure about a lot of this piece – including both mechanics and content. So, critiques of any and all types are very much welcomed. My intention in the piece should be made quite transparent by the first paragraph, so comments relating to how well that is achieved (thus far) would be obviously useful.
This submission is an extract and represents ~1/2-1/3 of the final piece, which will consist of probably two more anecdotes such as these in a progressive downward spiral.
Critiques:
Many thanks to anyone who takes the time to read or critique this. Wishing you all well.
EDIT: Jfc the title is using the adjective, not the noun. It's 'Confessions of a Somnambulist'. Clearly my fundamentals need work...
Hi there, recreational noobie hypnotist. I have a friend who is really really interested in being hypnotized - I have been doing the Elman Induction and easily achieving catalepsy - both small muscle and large muscle, but not somnambulism. The friend experiences the feeling of her thinking mind or "watcher" getting in the way of letting go into full mental relaxation. She's not hyper analytical but an over-thinker - commenting to herself a lot. Suggestions are taking only a weak hold in her subconscious. Any advice out there? Maybe only instant inductions work in these situations?
Carl Jung wrote in Memories, Dreams, Reflections :
"The figures from the unconscious are uninformed too, and need man, or contact with consciousness, in order to attain to knowledge. When I began working with the unconscious, I found myself much involved with the figures of Salome and Elijah. Then they receded, but after about two years they reappeared. To my enormous astonishment, they were completely unchanged; they spoke and acted as if nothing had happened in the meanwhile.
In actuality the most incredible things had taken place in my life. I had, as it were, to begin from the beginning again, to tell them all about what had been going on, and explain things to them. At the time I had been greatly surprised by this situation.
Only later did I understand what had happened: in the interval the two had sunk back into the unconscious and into themselves I might equally well put it, into timelessness. They remained out of contact with the ego and the ego's changing circumstances, and therefore were ignorant of what had happened in the world of consciousness. "
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Pierre Janet in Psychological Automatism noted something similar the last paragraph I think agrees with Dr. Jung writings mentioned above :
"we regularly observe in the minds of individuals who, for one reason or another, have had periods of sleepwalking, three characteristics or three laws of memory which are specific to them:
1st complete forgetting during the state of normal wakefulness of everything that happened during the sleepwalking;
2nd complete recollection during a new somnambulism of everything that happened during the previous somnambulisms;
3rd complete memory during sleepwalking of everything that happened during the day before.
The third law presents perhaps more exceptions and irregularities than the other two, so in this study, which aims above all to give a general idea of sleepwalking, we shall insist a little less on it. But the first two, despite the diversity that always present such complex phenomena, are so general and so important that they can be considered as the characteristic sign of the somnambulic state.
The phenomenon of forgetting, upon awakening, of everything that happened during sleepwalking is so curious and so striking that it was observed from the first studies of this kind. “When he returns to
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