Memory of Somnambulists.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVI, Issue II, 12 January 1901, Page 71

Memory of Somnambulists.

Tiie memory of sleepwalkers is occasionally prodigious. There is an instance of a poor basket maker, who was unable to read or write, yet in a state of sleep he would preach fluent sermons, which were aiterwards recognised as having formed portions of discourses he was accustomed to hear in the parish church as a child more than forty years before. Quite as strange a ease of "unconscious memory" is referred to by Dr. Abercrombie. A girl given to sleepwalking was in the habit of imitating the violin with her lips, giving the prelim inary tuning and scraping and flourishing wth 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.