somnambulistic

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Where the action performed is the only action possible (as in activity of the somnambulistic or more generally automatic kind), consciousness is reduced to nothing.

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  1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of somnambulism or somnambulists.

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  • But things get silly fast, partially thanks to a villain with a strange somnambulistic quirk: instead of sleeping, he hooks himself up to a machine for some abbreviated shut-eye. —  Playback:stl Syndication
  • When words failed at describing the harrowing, somnambulistic, maladroit tone, someone (perhaps Lynch himself) coined the phrase 'psychogenic fugue.' —  GreenCine Daily
  • Women, more than men, are subject to this strange, somnambulistic, mental condition, the result of strong emotion, in which they both do and endure to an extent that men would never think of or find possible After a minute she moved slightly, took up and laid down a book, but still mechanically, as if she did not quite know what she was doing until, suddenly, she caught sight of her wedding-ring. —  Christian's Mistake
  • As a young girl she was somnambulistic, and once fell down a stairhead during sleep. —  Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy
  • I hastened to explain that Davidson was in a kind of somnambulistic trance. —  The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents
 

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