“Many of these perceptual processes are transrational, altered state of consciousness (meditation, trance, dreams, imagination) and are not considered valid processes for accessing knowledge by science (which is based primarily upon quantification, reductionism, and the experimental method).”
It’s not exactly sleep-walking, it’s more sleep-waking, but it’s somewhere in between worlds, a limbo of not quite awake to reasoning and logic and not asleep to people and things around. In this state of sleep-waking the person is able to move and think about what is going on. But it’s like two things are happening, the waking world and the dream world and the person is experiencing both at once
they are in an abandoned fairground. there are patches of grass amidst the mudded walkways. brokendown pieces of carnival rides and dividing fences are scattered haphazardly covered in rust. the sun colors the sky the sort of muted yellow that late afternoons in autumn bring. shadows cast along the ground obscure moving figures. there are people at a distance but they keep a slow shuffle.