Sleeplessness.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12824, 4 November 1905, Page 1 (Supplement)

Sleeplessness.

" A very common canse of a s'cepless night <»ys a writer in ••Chamber*"* Joorn.'T't is ijic attendance at seme meeting or E.ilhtring wicte a lively or exciting time has been spent. An animated difpu!c or discussion in the evening may be followed by much want of sleep. Thew are very cvb dent causes, and the person concerned" doc* not alvayn do jost the best thing lo blip Ms night's rest. Icslcud of endejvonrire to put aside ?11 rcjlcction for the time being on wbil may have keenly cngajrrd bis mind the earlier part of li* evening, be continues in g" "vcr the point* diseased, and 1:1 imagination makes good hits am! cx\vinl replies to hU opponent, or els* continues l« smart nudcr defeat til! lie discovers it i» long j».ist lime lie should be asieep.and Ihen turns himself abon" with an impatient jcrit as if to say, ' I am done with thai for in'ttrsbt. and" must dtop off lo rcs|<* bat Ihe pir.bability is that be cannot do cf the rcrt. The brain has had a busy lime nf it, and has such way npon il I bat a redden stoppage of thought is ocl of Ibe qne>lion. In a case where Ihe excitement has bieri pretty higi, it isr curioo* bow persistently, in spite of a"l attempt* cot l» bavc any more of it. this or Ibat point will ob'rndo' itself upon the attention. This is an instance where the cause is perfectly apparent—the incident of an evening—and i« different from Ihe previous examples which were supposed lo have had a long-conlinoed and more aggressive foundation." The remedy is said to lie in finding votne diversion which will draw the execs* of blood away from the brain, but the writer in "Chambers's Journal"' doe* not wcgcsl any novel or effective measures. One of the old dodges still practised is that of walking about a room till the body gets slightly chilled, and then popping into bed. wbec a reaction at once sets in. But bow is tbe victim to manage in warm weather? Evidently the procew! of diverting attention from the exciting cause ought to begin before the would-be »lec»cr goes to bis room.