sleepwalker

Definition

A somnambulist; one who walks, or is active, while asleep.

Etymology

From sleep + walker or sleepwalk + -er.

Example Sentences

• "Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells."
• "Ashley looked dull as a sleepwalker and, as he came to her and put his hand upon her arm, he spoke like a sleepwalker."
• "Second, in the "hypnotized" subject, but not in the sleepwalker, characteristics such as a blank stare, a rigid facial expression, and an unwillingnes to talk have been produced by suggestions to become relaxed, drowsy, and sleepy and they can be easily removed by suggestions — for example, by suggestions to be alert."