catalepsy

catalepsy - n - A trancelike state with loss of voluntary motion and failure to react to stimuli.

If I can believe Poe, cataleptics were sometimes mistaken for dead, with unfortunate consequences.

Check out his Premature Burial and Fall of the House of Usher.

Speaking of FOTHOU, it has a great opening line:

"DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. "

skinny

skinny - n. - inside information; dope