A New Sleep-Producing Plan.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIX, Issue XI, 13 September 1902, Page 701

A New Sleep-Producing Plan.

Almost everyone has sometimes the wretched experience of lying awake at night, though mind and body are worn out. The usual plan adopted to overcome the sleepless fit is to give the mind some monotonous occupation—counting the ticks of a clock, or an imaginary flock of sheep going through a gap.

In a majority of eases :Ins plan fails. But what is quite its opposite has been found to be invariably successful.

What happens in these attacks of sleeplessness is that some thought forces itself into the mind, and will not leave it. We go over the same ground again and again. By and by

a new thought takes the place of the first one. and the process is repeated. Now, very often the train of thought arrives at the very verge of dreamland, and we are almost in the arms of sleep, when we awake with a start, and begin to think once more. The latest plan for obtaining sleep is to strive to carry the mind over the boundary line. Whatever thought takes possession of your mind, encourage it, take hold of it, so to speak, and try to convert it into a dream by giving it a fanciful and grotesque direction. The moment you accomplish this you will be really in the land of dreams.