"sleepwaker" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1842 March, Chauncy Hare Townshend, “Facts in Mesmerism, or Animal Magnetism”, in The New Jerusalem Magazine, volume 15, number 175, page 269:",
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          "ref": "1877, Clairvoyancy, Mind-reading, Psychomancy, and Soul-charming, page 39:",
          "text": "A lady present when Mademoiselle M——had been mesmerized by me, went up to the sleepwaker and spoke to her for some time.",
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