Somnambulism
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In sound sleep, all the functions of the brain and spinal cord except those connected with the maintenance of life itself are in abeyance. The order in which the various functions are lost is : (i) loss of the higher mental faculties, (2) of the motor functions, relaxation of muscles, and (3) loss of common sensation and of the special senses. They are awakened in the reverse order: the sensory faculties may be readily aroused into activity in light and fairly easily even in sound sleep. This is no doubt a remnant of the ancestral condition in which man had at all times to be on the alert against hostile attacks. When sleep is disturbed by dreams, the course of events is
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