SLEEPLESSNESS.
TO TH* IDITOR OF "THE PKESS." Sir, —As sympathiser with "Night Shift," I beg to describe my own method of. inviting sleep, successful as a rule. It involves the double task ol dulling the brain, and placing the oouy in a condition most favourable for repose. To that end I keep counting, mechanically, but at a smart pace, 1, 2, 3, 4 (not aloud) for some five minutes* increasing the speed the more the brain resists; then, passing on for a few minute's to such syllables as "tick-tack" and "no, no," and back again to numbers. The whole process raj&ly absorbs more than 10 minutes. ' Meanwhile the body lies absolutely still, and all the muscles are to "be relaxed, with eyes open staring into the dark. Turn to the right side, unless unduly excitedor in pain. I am generally asleep, within 20 minutes. .Perhaps "Night Shift" will report . after a while, for sufferers from!, the exhausting complaint are plentiful.—Yours, etc., SAME BOAT ONCE.
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18549, 26 November 1925, Page 11
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