INDUCED SOMNAMBULISM
Somnambulism is the deep artificial sleep, nearest to the walking state, induced by a hypnotist. It may be distinguished from sleep walking or natural somnambulism. As both the states are identical in most ways that the name somnambulism is used for both of them. Hypnosis is known as artificial somnambulism and the other state is called natural or spontaneous hypnosis. These two states are so similar that it becomes difficult to say which is which.