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In '''natural somnambulism''', the mind is generally engrossed by some ‘''dominant idea''’ '''''of its own''''', and cannot be directed by ''external suggestions'', except such as may be ''in harmony'' with it.<ref name="Carpenter1852">{{cite web |title=On the Influence of Suggestion in Modifying and directing Muscular Movement, independently of Volition |author=William B. Carpenter |publisher=Royal Institution of Great Britain (originally) |year=1852 |issn=1430-6972|url=http://www.sgipt.org/medppp/psymot/carp1852.htm |quote=Materialien und Dokumente zum ideomotorischen (Carpenter) Effekt, hier die Originalarbeit. |accessdate=2 January 2016}}</ref>
==Artificial somnambulism==
A condition in which the voluntary control over ''the current of thought'' is entirely suspended so that the individual is becoming for the time a mere ''thinking automaton'', the whole course of whose ideas is determinable by ''suggestion operating '''from without''''', is form of ''artificial'' somnambulism. The ‘''biologized''’ individual cannot get rid of any notion with which he thus becomes possessed, by any effort of his own; because the abeyance of his voluntary power alike prevents him from directing him ''the current of his thoughts'' into another channel, and from having recourse to his ordinary experience for the correction of his ''fallacies''; and so long as he is under his domination, all his conversation and actions are nothing else than an expression of it.<ref name="Carpenter1852"/>
The form of artificial somnambulism characterized by spontaneous [[amnesia]] was termed as ‘'''hyptnotism'''’ by James Braid.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Complete Writings of James Braid |author=James Braid |publisher=Lulu.com |year=2013 |pages=140 |isbn=9781304205155 |url=https://books.google.no/books?id=dq-fBQAAQBAJ |quote=state of hypnotism [characterized by spontaneous amnesia, also known as "artificial somnambulism"]}}</ref>
==Examples==
There are numerous instances on record in which ''the current of thought'' and ''the course of action'' of a ''natural somnambulist'' have been entirely governed by the ''suggestions'' of those around. Historically, among the best known early examples of ''natural somnabulism'' was one narrated by James Gregory about an Officer who served in the expedition to Louisburgh in 1758, and at whose expense his comrades were accustomed to amuse themselves.<ref name="Carpenter1852"/>
===Mathematician Kurt Gödel===
When he was just eight years old, mathematician [[Kurt Gödel]] read a medical textbook. After that, he become convinced that he had a week heart and this dominant idea of his own has permanently taken full possession of his mind even though his doctors could find no evidence of the condition.<ref>{{cite book |title=Fermat's Last Theorem |author=Simon Singh |publisher=Fourth Estate |place=London |year=1997 |pages= 157|url= http://books.google.com/books?id=Ncrnn9hCn_kC |quote=At the age of eight, having read medical textbook, he become convinced that he had a week heart, even though his doctors could find no evidence of the condition.}}</ref>
===Natural somnambulism in Film: Some of us ... it’s lots of us ===
A 2006 American computer-animated film ''Ice Age: The Meltdown'' depicts the phenomenon of somnambulism at one of the main characters, Ellie. She is the only female mammoth left in the world, who, however, has a problem - she somehow thinks she is a possum (''"Don’t be ridiculous, I’m not a mamooth, I’m a possum"'') and refuses external suggestions (''"maybe because you’re mamooth?"'') pointing out that evidence in form of her physical appearance suggests otherwise.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ice Age: The Meltdown |chapter=Manny meets Ellie |year=2006 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3i-auGmXyk |quote=Manny:I knew it, I knew I wasn’t the only one.
Ellie: Me too, everyone falls from the tree every now and then, they just don’t admit it.
-Wait, what?
-Some of us have a tough time holding on the branches, I mean it’s not like we’re bad or something we don’t have wings to keep us up.
-And you were in the tree because…?
-Ouhh, I was looking for my brothers who always get into trouble.
-Brothers? You mean, there is more?
-Sure, it’s lots of us.
-Where?
-Everywhere. Under rocks and in the wholes in the ground; usually we come at night so that birds don’t carry us off.
-Sid:...You’ve found another mamooth!
-E:Where? Wait a minute, I thought mamooths were extinct.
What are you looking at me for?
-M: I don’t know, maybe because you’re mamooth?
-E: Me?, don’t be ridiculous, I’m not a mamooth, I’m a possum.
-M: Right, good one.
|accessdate=9 April 2016}}</ref> It takes her a while until she finally realizes she is really a mammoth and also expresses her suspicions about how different she was from other possums.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ice Age: The Meltdown |chapter=Plot summary, storyline |year=2006 |url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0438097/plotsummary?ref_=tt_stry_pl |quote=Manny the woolly mammoth, [et al.] are still together and enjoying the perks of their now melting world. Manny may be ready to start a family, but nobody has seen another mammoth for a long time; Manny thinks he may be the last one. That is, until he miraculously finds Ellie, the only female mammoth left in the world. Their only problems: They can't stand each other--and Ellie somehow thinks she's a possum! Ellie comes with some excess baggage in the form of her two possum "brothers"-- Crash and Eddie, a couple of daredevil pranksters and cocky, loud-mouthed troublemakers. ...Biography for
Ellie (Character) |accessdate=9 April 2016}}</ref>
===LGBTI somnambulism===
In case of LGBTI somnambulism, the mind of its victim is engrossed by dominant idea that a person possessing this mind was 'born that way'<ref name="Yuan's Book">{{cite web |title=christopheryuan |year=2011 |publisher=WaterBrook Press |pages=6, 82 |isbn=978-0-307-72935-4 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=g3KR3nFcl1oC |isbn=978-0-307-72935-4 |quote=It's not something I can choose. I was born this way...I am gay. ... I went from thinking, ''There is something wrong with me'', to, This is who I am. ... But in reality, much of the passion between us was fueled by Ecstasy - thus our relationship was fierce and intense, both good and bad."}}</ref>, i.e. as involuntarily forced to conduct sodomical lifestyle. The behavioral actions and related conversation of the LGBTI 'thinking automaton' are essentially nothing else than an expression of this fallacious idea.
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
== See Also ==
*[[ABC Theory of Emotion]]
*[[Ideomotor effect]]
[[Category:Homosexuality]]
[[Category:Psychology]]
==Artificial somnambulism==
A condition in which the voluntary control over ''the current of thought'' is entirely suspended so that the individual is becoming for the time a mere ''thinking automaton'', the whole course of whose ideas is determinable by ''suggestion operating '''from without''''', is form of ''artificial'' somnambulism. The ‘''biologized''’ individual cannot get rid of any notion with which he thus becomes possessed, by any effort of his own; because the abeyance of his voluntary power alike prevents him from directing him ''the current of his thoughts'' into another channel, and from having recourse to his ordinary experience for the correction of his ''fallacies''; and so long as he is under his domination, all his conversation and actions are nothing else than an expression of it.<ref name="Carpenter1852"/>
The form of artificial somnambulism characterized by spontaneous [[amnesia]] was termed as ‘'''hyptnotism'''’ by James Braid.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Complete Writings of James Braid |author=James Braid |publisher=Lulu.com |year=2013 |pages=140 |isbn=9781304205155 |url=https://books.google.no/books?id=dq-fBQAAQBAJ |quote=state of hypnotism [characterized by spontaneous amnesia, also known as "artificial somnambulism"]}}</ref>
==Examples==
There are numerous instances on record in which ''the current of thought'' and ''the course of action'' of a ''natural somnambulist'' have been entirely governed by the ''suggestions'' of those around. Historically, among the best known early examples of ''natural somnabulism'' was one narrated by James Gregory about an Officer who served in the expedition to Louisburgh in 1758, and at whose expense his comrades were accustomed to amuse themselves.<ref name="Carpenter1852"/>
===Mathematician Kurt Gödel===
When he was just eight years old, mathematician [[Kurt Gödel]] read a medical textbook. After that, he become convinced that he had a week heart and this dominant idea of his own has permanently taken full possession of his mind even though his doctors could find no evidence of the condition.<ref>{{cite book |title=Fermat's Last Theorem |author=Simon Singh |publisher=Fourth Estate |place=London |year=1997 |pages= 157|url= http://books.google.com/books?id=Ncrnn9hCn_kC |quote=At the age of eight, having read medical textbook, he become convinced that he had a week heart, even though his doctors could find no evidence of the condition.}}</ref>
===Natural somnambulism in Film: Some of us ... it’s lots of us ===
A 2006 American computer-animated film ''Ice Age: The Meltdown'' depicts the phenomenon of somnambulism at one of the main characters, Ellie. She is the only female mammoth left in the world, who, however, has a problem - she somehow thinks she is a possum (''"Don’t be ridiculous, I’m not a mamooth, I’m a possum"'') and refuses external suggestions (''"maybe because you’re mamooth?"'') pointing out that evidence in form of her physical appearance suggests otherwise.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ice Age: The Meltdown |chapter=Manny meets Ellie |year=2006 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3i-auGmXyk |quote=Manny:I knew it, I knew I wasn’t the only one.
Ellie: Me too, everyone falls from the tree every now and then, they just don’t admit it.
-Wait, what?
-Some of us have a tough time holding on the branches, I mean it’s not like we’re bad or something we don’t have wings to keep us up.
-And you were in the tree because…?
-Ouhh, I was looking for my brothers who always get into trouble.
-Brothers? You mean, there is more?
-Sure, it’s lots of us.
-Where?
-Everywhere. Under rocks and in the wholes in the ground; usually we come at night so that birds don’t carry us off.
-Sid:...You’ve found another mamooth!
-E:Where? Wait a minute, I thought mamooths were extinct.
What are you looking at me for?
-M: I don’t know, maybe because you’re mamooth?
-E: Me?, don’t be ridiculous, I’m not a mamooth, I’m a possum.
-M: Right, good one.
|accessdate=9 April 2016}}</ref> It takes her a while until she finally realizes she is really a mammoth and also expresses her suspicions about how different she was from other possums.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ice Age: The Meltdown |chapter=Plot summary, storyline |year=2006 |url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0438097/plotsummary?ref_=tt_stry_pl |quote=Manny the woolly mammoth, [et al.] are still together and enjoying the perks of their now melting world. Manny may be ready to start a family, but nobody has seen another mammoth for a long time; Manny thinks he may be the last one. That is, until he miraculously finds Ellie, the only female mammoth left in the world. Their only problems: They can't stand each other--and Ellie somehow thinks she's a possum! Ellie comes with some excess baggage in the form of her two possum "brothers"-- Crash and Eddie, a couple of daredevil pranksters and cocky, loud-mouthed troublemakers. ...Biography for
Ellie (Character) |accessdate=9 April 2016}}</ref>
===LGBTI somnambulism===
In case of LGBTI somnambulism, the mind of its victim is engrossed by dominant idea that a person possessing this mind was 'born that way'<ref name="Yuan's Book">{{cite web |title=christopheryuan |year=2011 |publisher=WaterBrook Press |pages=6, 82 |isbn=978-0-307-72935-4 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=g3KR3nFcl1oC |isbn=978-0-307-72935-4 |quote=It's not something I can choose. I was born this way...I am gay. ... I went from thinking, ''There is something wrong with me'', to, This is who I am. ... But in reality, much of the passion between us was fueled by Ecstasy - thus our relationship was fierce and intense, both good and bad."}}</ref>, i.e. as involuntarily forced to conduct sodomical lifestyle. The behavioral actions and related conversation of the LGBTI 'thinking automaton' are essentially nothing else than an expression of this fallacious idea.
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
== See Also ==
*[[ABC Theory of Emotion]]
*[[Ideomotor effect]]
[[Category:Homosexuality]]
[[Category:Psychology]]