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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 ''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"/>

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 ''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>

The form of artificial somnambulism characterized by spontaneous [[amnesia]] was termed as ‘'''hypnotism'''’ 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==

==Examples==