catalepsy
Motionless waking state
Catalepsy is a condition in which a person becomes rigid and unresponsive, maintaining whatever posture they're placed in.
The muscles stiffen but don't resist manipulation—a limb raised by someone else will stay suspended.
Catalepsy occurs in certain psychiatric conditions, seizure disorders, and drug states.
Historically it was associated with trances, hysteria, and demonic possession.
State of being unbending
- stiffnessResistance to deformation
- paralysisLoss of muscle function
- frozenSolidified by extreme cold
- motionlessLacking all movement
waxy · posturing · fixed · petrification · inert · torpor · stuporous · unmoving
Psychiatric movement disorder
- seizureForcible taking or convulsion
- schizophreniaPsychotic disorder with delusions
- parkinsonismMotor syndrome with tremor, rigidity
- convulsionSudden involuntary muscle contractions
stupor · mutism · psychosis · antipsychotic · dopamine · neurotransmitter · encephalopathy · tremor
Induced trance state
- mesmerismTrance-inducing influence
- dissociationMental separation from surroundings
- stuporSuspended sensibility
- unresponsivenessLack of reaction
somnambulism · fugue · absorption · automatism · suggestibility · hypnotic · entrancement · sleepwalking
rigidity
State of being unbending
motionless · waxy · posturing · fixed · petrification · inert · torpor · stuporous · unmoving · immovable
catatonia
Psychiatric movement disorder
- seizureForcible taking or convulsion
- schizophreniaPsychotic disorder with delusions
- parkinsonismMotor syndrome with tremor, rigidity
convulsion · stupor · mutism · psychosis · antipsychotic · dopamine · neurotransmitter · encephalopathy · tremor · spasm
hypnosis
Induced trance state
- mesmerismTrance-inducing influence
- dissociationMental separation from surroundings
- stuporSuspended sensibility
unresponsiveness · somnambulism · fugue · absorption · automatism · suggestibility · hypnotic · entrancement · sleepwalking · semiconscious
Poe
American gothic writer's surname
- consciousness statesunconscious, conscious, awake, alert, sleep
- catatoniawaxy flexibility, mutism, stupor, posturing, negativism
- Hypnosishypnotist, hypnotherapist, trance state, trance states, autohypnosis
- stillnessstillness, motionless, motionlessness, immobility, unmoving
- dormancyhibernation, dormancy, torpor, diapause, estivation
- Hypnotismhypnosis, hypnotism, hypnotist, mesmerism, mesmerist
catalepsyvoluntary movement
Self-initiated bodily action
free movement · motor control · mobility · motility · hyperkinesia
catalepsyconsciousness
State of sentient awareness
alertness · wakefulness · vigilance · responsiveness · lucidity
catalepsyflaccidity
Lack of firmness
hypotonia · muscle relaxation · limpness · atonia · cataplexy