What is somnambulism?
Somnambulism is a particular hypnotic state where you are significantly more suggestible. Somnambulism is the state where you will completely and readily accept a suggestion of anesthesia or amnesia. Somnambulism then is a good state for surgery. There are some people who claim all trance is the same, and the trance of driving a car is just as good as somnambulistic hypnosis. But I doubt you would want an appendix removed with just the level of trance you get from driving in a car… ouch! If all trance were equally effective, surgeons would just use TV in the operating rooms instead of anesthesiologists. Somnambulism is also the state where you readily accept suggestions of hallucination. Achieving somnambulism in a subject should take one minute or less. The commonly used progressive relaxation methods of inducing hypnosis often never achieve somnambulism.
You may wonder how come your child whom you had tucked into bed at night is lying asleep on the kitchen table in the morning. It can be somnambulism that brought your child into kitchen room while asleep. Somnambulism (also called sleepwalking) does not cause any harm and that it does not necessitate any serious treatment. Though a person of any age can have somnambulism, yet it has been found mostly in kids between 8 and 12 years of age. In many children somnambulism disappears on its own with growing age. Though somnambulism is not considered as harmful condition, it should not be taken lightly because may cause injury. What are symptoms? A person with somnambulism can be seen sitting up in bed with his or her eyes wide open. Somnambulism shows glazed expressions. Person affected by somnambulism opens or shuts the door or switches on lights or any other electrical appliances while moving around the house at night without any definite aim. Person affected by somnambulism may be seen s
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