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sleep-walking

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sleep-walking

Walking around and performing other activities during sleep with no recollection of it on waking. Common in childhood, it may continue into the adult years; or it may arise spontaneously, particularly if the person concerned is experiencing stress.
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She ought not to have much inclination for sleep-walking then.
Dracula by Stoker, Bram View in context
It was so beautiful in its form, it was so ashy pale, it was so fixed in its abstraction, it was so full of a wild, sleep-walking, dreamy horror of I don't know what.
David Copperfield by Dickens, Charles View in context
I had even reverted to the idea of sleep-walking, and the idea of intoxication; and, again, the worthlessness of the one theory and the other had been proved--on the authority, this time, of the witness who had seen me.
The Moonstone by Collins, Wilkie View in context
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