HOW DO YOU WAKE?

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16907, 5 December 1922, Page 10

HOW DO YOU WAKE?

Mil. ABOL T TU B LITTLE DOOR IN \ OCR MINI). I low quickly can you wake up? Homo *>t us can wake instantly, hut nearly all *•1 us <l.. nothing of th© sort, but have io lie for some time before we are really awake. II lias nothing to do with being a J hem or M strong man, neither has t i anything to do with laziness or being , I til'd ||?.. night lietore. If all depends on mu* minds. I'o •ry (iio ol us has got two distinct E ’muds, the front mind with which we I do our ordinary daytime thinking, and I Mi*' hack mind which comes into action E only in the hours of sleep. Between the two minds lies a door I Bin'll you go to sleep you pas« into I your night mind ; when you wake up E \on through tile door into vour 1 day mind, and dose the door behind 1 But with a great many of Us this ° door between our two minds has worked a lit tie loose. The hinges of that door work slowly;

it doesn’t slam, and through it float out 1 the broken remnants of real life of the. new day’s work. r I hen gradually, with an effort, you j manage to pull yourself out of the log j and push the dream things back through the door. Then at last you are awake. This difficulty of waking varies with your circumstances. If something pleasant is going to happen to you in the coming day you can woke up comparatively easily. Your real self is anxious to l>e finished with the dream world, to shut the door, and to wake to your good fortune. But when you are troubled, or expecting worry, your dream self invests your sleeping hours with a ‘kindly mantle of romance to make up for the worries of the day. You are loth to leave that pleasant land of dreams, and consequently wake slowly.