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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>  

In '''natural somnambulism''', the mind is generally engrossed by some self-induced ‘''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> According as somnambulists feel more or less elevated, they are also more or less apt to apprehend the truth of things. Their abnormal state of mind impairs their lucidity and, for this reason, their revelations and/or views are often a mixture of truths and errors, of sublime ideas and absurd or even ridiculous fancies.

==Artificial somnambulism==

==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 ''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"/>