#somnambulist

[uzumaakies]

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

Sometimes the Latin version of a word is worse. Adam Savage used to keep a dream journal which he made by hand and weathered to look antique, and he called it the Somnambulist's Diary. It's a really cool looking prop, but that name is a Jimmy Neutron sodium chloride situation.

"Somnambulist? Uhh, do you mean Sleepwalker?"

"That's what I said. Somnambulist."

Sleepwalker is Germanic and I think it sounds cool enough as is.

[nosferatu-roberteggers]

Gabriel Cornelius Ritter von Max; “The Seeress of Prevorst in High Sleep” (1892)

“The Protestant public raved about the soulful poetry of Justinus Kerner and his clairvoyante, Frau Friederike Hauffe, while certain theologians gave vent to their catholicizing tendencies by excommunicating spirits. From this period, too, come a large number of remarkable psychological descriptions of abnormal people ecstatics, somnambulists, sensitives. They were much in demand and were cultivated assiduously. A good example was Frau Hauffe herself, the clairvoyante of Prevorst, and the circle of admirers who gathered round her. Her Catholic counterpart was Katharina Emmerich, the ecstatic nun of Dulmen. Reports of similar personalities were collected together in a weighty tome by an anonymous savant, entitled “The Ecstatic Virgins of the Tyrol: Guiding Stars in the Dark Firmament of Mysticism”. When these strange personages were investigated, the following suprasensible processes were observed: 1. ‘Magnetic’ phenomena. 2. Clairvoyance and prophecy. 3. Visions.

Clairvoyance and prophecy are further characteristics of somnambulists. Clairvoyance in time and space plays a large role in the biographies and descriptions of these cases. The literature abounds in more or less credible reports, most of which have been collected by Gurney, Myers, and Podmore in their book “Phantasms of the Living”, 1886. […] Visions have always figured largely in miraculous tales, whether in the form of a ghostly apparition or an ecstatic vision. Science regards visions as delusions of the senses, or hallucinations. Hallucinations are very common among the insane. Let me cite an example from the literature of psychiatry: Visionary ecstasies are usually of this type.”

— Carl Jung; “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: The Symbolic Life, Vol. 18” (1950)

“Anna Katharina Emmerick” (from “Das wunderbare innere und äußere Leben der Dienerin”, 1912)

[bizarreauhavre]

the somnambulist, 1958, (surrealist movie).

[quirkwizard]

Do you think Midnight’s Quirk would’ve been, on some level, a useful counter against the Sad Man Parade? Both Twice’s and Himiko’s.

Yes, I do believe that Midnight could be a good counter to Twice. Shoot, I think she might be one of the best options for it. For all of Twice's power, the doubles are still weak and can be taken out with wide, sweeping attacks. Midnight can easily make them all fall asleep without much effort. It's not like there isn't any real downside for her making the gas. Granted, she can't cover the same range as other Quirks, but it'd still take out a lot of them without it being an issue. Barring the pile of sleeping Jins that will get in the way.

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Conrad Veidt - The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

[skyrndipity]

Kim Dokja: “I have a plan.”

Everyone: “No dying.”

Kim Dokja: “I no longer have a plan.”

Cale: “Great, then let's go with mine.”

Everyone: “NO!”

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