noctambulation
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Men have employed anxious months in search of that which, in a freak of noctambulation, was hidden by their own hands.
From Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Brown, Charles Brockden
“Say we keep our nocturnal noctambulation under our hats,” proposed Rob.
From Our Next-Door Neighbors by Maniates, Belle Kanaris
Somnambulism, or, as it has been called, noctambulation, is a curious phase of nocturnal cerebration analogous to the hypnotic state, or double consciousness occasionally observed in epileptics.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)