somnambulism

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But we must be careful not to confuse this disorder with somnambulism.

From Scientific American • Jun. 5, 2023

Or are they symptoms of either sleep paralysis — the mind awake, but the body asleep — or its converse: somnambulism, or sleepwalking?

From Washington Post • Aug. 17, 2021

This brutal satirical novel takes place on a single night, when a plague of somnambulism unleashes a host of suppressed emotions among the inhabitants of a Chinese village.

From New York Times • Jan. 3, 2019

“The Day the Sun Died” takes place during a single evening and night, when a village called Gaotian is stricken by an outbreak of somnambulism, or “dreamwalking”:

From The New Yorker • Oct. 8, 2018

Her strange somnambulism seemed suspicious to her, as did her new mania for taking food to her room.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende