MEMORY OF SOMNAMBULISTS.
The memory of sleepwalkers, says the ‘ Popular Phrenologist,’ is occasionally prodigious. There is an instance of a poor biskotmaker, who was unable to read or write, yet in a state of sleep he would preach fluent sermbus, which were afterwards recognised as having formed portions of discourses he was accustomed to hear in the parish church as a child more than forty years before. Quito as strange a case of “ unconscious memory ” is referred to by Dr Abercrombie. A girl given to sleepwalking was in ths habit of imitating the violin with he'r lips, giving the preliminary tuning, and scraping, and flourishing with the utmost fidelity. The physician ascertained that when a child she lived in a room adjoining a fiddler, who often performed on his violin in her hearing.
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Evening Star, Issue 11251, 26 May 1900, Page 6
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