The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-28

imagining that you can see 1t roll. more
common method is to instruct the subject
to breathe deeply and rapidly "sixty-three'
times. bearing the idea in mind that the
sixty-third breath will find him asleep
In daylight laboratory tests physician
who employs hypnotism for therapeutic
purposes gives his subjects a pencil and
pad of blank note paper and instructs them
to write the word sleepy" very slowly
"thirty-three" times. They are told to
close their eyes for moment after writing
the word each time. When they have writ
ten the word thirty-three times, and If still
awake, they are TO sit with eyes closed.
All of these methods are actually pre-
scribed by practical hypnotists. Even the
most powerful specialists practicing this
science resort to such preliminary means
for inducing sleep. Any of the above meth
DDS can be applied by ones self.
INDUCING SLEEP IN OTHERS.
Others, more interesting, can better be
applied to a second person. Most any wife
or mother can induce sleep in her wakeful
husband or child by employment Of anna
teur hypnotism, unless his insomnia be
acute.
OF course, there must be no levity shown.
lest lack Of confidence fesult and this will
be fatal If present in either the operator
or the subject. Anyone willing to try can
make a hypnotist of himself, If gifted with
ordinary tact determination and Judgment"
a successful master of this art once told
the writer by way of introduction to les
son in hypnotism.
Take the photograph Of some striking
person known to your wakeful subject Tell
him that it is the portrait of one of the
greatest hypnotists in the world. and that if
he will gaze into it's eyes he will feel their
influence and soon drop into a sound sleep.
lasting until morning. This is a method
sometimes used in stage seances, and many
subjects will follow the suggestion at once.
The sleep having been induced you can
tell your subject that when you arouse him
in the morning you will present him with
card that he will read what is written
thereon, and that ever afterward he can
make himself sleep by gazing at the same
card, If undressed and in bed. Then prepare
a card reading something like this: Ten
minutes after reading this you will drop
into sound sleep. and sleep just long
as you wish" SHOW him this card at any
future time and he will carry out the sug-
gestion," says the hypnotist who devised
the test.
Another method recommended is this:
Require your subject to hold both OF his
hands, backs facing him, about six inches
in front of his face. He must then stare at
each of his finger nails in turn, while he
counts ten slowly. He should commence
with the left little finger and work to the
right. a good subject will seldom keep his
eyes open until he has gazed at the whole
! ten nails"
| Some professional operators employ q lit
tie electric lamp. which when grasped
| tightly in the hand Is lighted, but which
| goes out when the hands grip is relaxed.
| The subject Is given one of these to hold.
being instructed to grasp it firmly and
rivet his attention upon the bright light.
The hypnotist, standing the subject,
suggests that the latter's eyes are growing
| tired and that with this effect the hand
will relax; that finally when the light goes
out the eyes will close in sleep. OF course
the hand relaxes from fatigue. The light
| extinguishes itself and the subject really
sleeps as a result of the suggestion.
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