Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1905 — TO AWAKEN WHEN YOU WISH. [ARTICLE]

TO AWAKEN WHEN YOU WISH.

Simple Plan Which Requires No Alarm Clock to Be Bet. We hear it frequently asserted that If persons will impress the thought firmly upon their minds and continue thinking about it until they have fallen asleep that they desire to awake at a certain hour in the morning, they will do it without fail, says a writer in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat But how many people have tried this method of insuring a prompt awakening at a given hour in the morning only to find their rest throughout the night dieturbed and uneasy? The brain will usually respond to the will and awaken one in the morning near the desired hour under any circumstances, but to prevent the unbroken, uneasy sleep the adoption of only a very simple device is necessary. The last thing before getting into bed, take a wrntch or clock and turn the hands to the hour at which one wishes to rise and gaze at this just long enough to fix the hour firmly od the retentive memory. Then, if no other Absorbing thoughts intervene'"between that and the moment one is locked in slumber, the night’s rest will be easy and unbroken and promptly at the hour in the morning, as a rule, one will find one’s self released from sleep and wide awake. There is no need to keep thinking of the hour continually for a number of minutes, no need to repeat it over and over in the mind; all that makes the brain uneasy and results in the disturbed slumber. Simply look at the watch or clock, as I have indicated, and the influence of the mind over matter will be clearly demonstrated in the morning. Try it some night and observe how smoothly this phsychologica 1 fa ct works.