sleepwalk
verb (used without object)
to engage in sleepwalking.
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
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It was as if they had been woken up from a dream, and the best of them realised how they had been sleepwalking towards the disaster.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 17, 2017