somnambulism

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

From Washington Post

By the last half-hour, I had plunged into a state of political somnambulism.

From The Guardian

As a realist narrator, he reports first-hand the nightmare of the surreal somnambulism outbreak.

From Los Angeles Times

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

What follows is an artfully organized, minute-by-minute description of “the great somnambulism,” a horrific night of sleepwalking that “blotted out the sky and blanketed the earth, leaving everything in a state of chaos.”

From Washington Post