When awake, people can perform skilled or random behaviors without consciousness {automatism}|. People cannot remember automatisms. Deep sleep or disoriented state can follows automatism.
Epileptic mental state lasts for several minutes, is in temporal lobe, impairs awareness or has unconsciousness, and involves chewing, smacking lips, moving arms or hands in organized but purposeless patterns, laughing, acting scared, and using isolated words.
Sleepwalking is automatism [Callwood, 1990].
After hypnosis, people can perform skilled behaviors on command.
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