Show strange a sleepwalking men do while in state of readers of that charming work of my late friend wilkie collins tho moonstone will remember tho sleepwalking feats of mr franklin blake when under tho influence of an opiate what tho novelist describes as piece of fiction may bo paralleled from the sober records of science in his classic volume on sleep tells ansot a shepherd lad who wrape in binm walked miles to tho place his flock was pastured waded through a river and returned homo without waking hi another case a lad in hid sleep scaled a precipitous cliff and brought home from it an eagles nest which was found under his bed in the morning Abercrom bies case of tho scotti li lawyer who when worried over a perplexing case was seen by his difo to ribo from his bed in the night is another illustration of alio occasionally purposive character of somnambulism when directed by its private secretaries tho sleeping ego is apparently roused from its couch and made to act the part of a pure automaton this individual went to a writing desk which stood in ilia bedroom sat down before the desk and broto for some time then replacing tho paper within tho desk he returned to bed in ho morning ho told his wife of a dream he had experienced in which he imagined ho had given a satisfactory opinion on tho case which was troubling his mind iio expressed regret that be could not recall tho train of thought represented in his dream on his difo directing him to his writing desk ho found therein the opinion in question clearly written out and in every respect satisfactory andrew wilson AL D in harpers magazine |