SOMNIUM
\sˈɒmni͡əm], \sˈɒmniəm], \s_ˈɒ_m_n_iə_m]\
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A confused assemblage, or accidental and involuntary combination of ideas and images, which present themselves to the mind during sleep. Dr. S. Mitchell, of New York, used the word Somnium to signify the state between sleeping and waking, in which persons perform acts of which they are unconscious. For ‘waking dreams,’ see Hallucination. Those distressing dreams which.occur during a state of half sleep, are called, by the French, Revasseries.
By Robley Dunglison
