Show THE FACT of sleep may of itself have already suggested the idea of two distinct dis-tinct persons for we are certainly not the same sleeping and waking asserts the Popular Science Monthly Yet In sleep we have recollections from the waking state and we can remember from sleep when awake There is therefore an essential connection between be-tween the two states There are in natural somnambulism at the same time more and less of aflalogy with the wakeful condition In one respect it more resembles wakefulness for while in natural sleep the dream is absolutely incoherent thesomnamb must plays out his dreams that is he executes a system of coordinated movements having a beginning a middle and an end or a certain coherence Oe the other hand somnambulism is further separated from wakefulness in the fact that the man awake wholly loses the recollection of what the sleeping man has done while tbe somnambulist can remember what be has done in a previous previ-ous sleep There are then in some fashion two lives and the hypothis is dreamed of by Pascal is very near to being realized hIf we dream every night tho same things it would affect us much as objects that we see everyday every-day and if an artisan were to dream during the twelve hours of every night that he was a king I believe that be would be almost as happy as R kng who shuld dream for twelve Hours that he was an artisan 71 Pascal speaks here only of dreaming but it must not be forgotten that somnambulism is composed both of dream and reality The somnambulist performs actions that take place in the real world he walks he writes he does nearly everything every-thing that ho does while awake and is even able to speak and reply Hence TVe have only to represent to ourselva s somnuiiibulasm gaining more aud more upon the waking condition encroaching encroach-ing upon it and at last becoming a second waking alternating with the other and retaining only one feature of somnambulism loss of recollection recol-lection on waking |