People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1893 — The Sense of Time in Sleep. [ARTICLE]

The Sense of Time in Sleep.

A Massachusetts man tells the following: “I arrived one day at a sleepy Italian town and joined a party of friends. It was in the late afternoon, and I was very tired. I had been rowing a distance, and I soon went up stairs, lay down in my boating flannels for a little rest before dressing, and fell directly asleep—one of those stony, moveless sleeps that seem to tire more than rest one. When I awoke 1 was surprised to see by the light that it was not night, not even morning; but by the shadows of late afternoon, and from my sense of having been asleep a long, long time, I realized that I had slept for twenty-four hours! A little dazed and ashamed qf myself I got ready, went down and joined my friends. They did not seem to pay much attention to my absence; in short, they did not act at all strange, and when I-apologized for not having joined them at dinner the day before they said: ‘Why, you were not here yesteMiy;’ and in some way'or other, little by little, it was borne in upon me that I had been asleep about ten minutes. If 1 had been- alone I should certainly have lost a day out of my life.”—St Louis Globe-Democrat