Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-27

ticular spot. Do this for three minutel
! and drowsiness win probably cause tht
natural repose. One method recommended
by a hypnotist Is to close your eyes and
count the bright spots coming and going
on your eyelids. Any one can see such
spots IL he closes his eyes.
Exercise the Imagination.
Close your eyes and imagine that you arc
looking at the ceiling Having done this
for moment. make yourself believe that
you are looking into the corners of the
ceiling. one after the other, in order One
hypnotist recommends the following: Close
your eyes. Drop your head forward upon
your chest Then imagine that you are
looking up and down your spine. from be-
hind.
Imagine that you are counting the num-
Der of bricks on the corner of a high build
ing. Commence at the bottom and count
up. If you reach the top before falling
asleep, then start at the top and work
downward. The eyes must be closed during
this experiment. which is recommended by
teacher OF hypnotism. This same author
ity teaches his subjects to pretend to sleep
by taking a comfortable position and snor-
ing lightly This, he says tends to en-
courage sleep. the same effect being pro-
duced by trying to yawn again and again.
thus encouraging natural yawning. OF
course. you must be in a comfortable posi-
ton, ready for sleep. during these tests. 1t
Is also recommended to slowly turn over the
leaves OF a book imagining while you do
that you see the word sleep in large,
black letters. printed on each page. You
will turn them more and more slowly and
nnaliy cease. unconsciously. and fall asleep.
Fatiguing Consciousness.
With eyes closed, imagine that You are
stretching piece of elastic two inches long.
Go through the actual movements again
and again until you have stretched It as
far as your arms will reach. One hypnotist
encourages sleep in his patients by placing
cork between their teeth and causing
them to bite hard on 1t for
minute or two. He also instructs
them to shut their eyes and imagine that
mouths. drop at time. This causes an
increase of saliva and ii Is claimed pro-
duces soporific effect at the same time.
If these methods fail he requires the sinh
1ect to roll his tongue back in his mouth
ana hold 1t steadily by pressing~it against
the palate. 1t is also claimed that sleep
can be induced by rolling a small rubber
ball or large marble between the hands and
imagining that you can see It roll more
common method is to instruct the subject
10 breathe deeply and rapidly "sixty-three'
umes. bearing the idea in mind that the
si1ty-thrd breath will find him asleep
In daylight laboratory tests a physician
who employs hypnotism for therapeutic
purposes gives his subjects a pencil and a
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 written
the word thirty-three times and II 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
methods can be applied by ones self.
Inducing Sleep in Others.
Others, more interesting. can better os
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 Ievity shown,
| lest lack of confidence result and this will
be fatal If present in either the operator
or the subject. ANY one willing to try
can make 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 lesson In hypnotism.
Hypnotism by Photograph.
Take the photograph of some striking
person unknown to your wakeful subject.
Tell him that 1t is the portrait OF one Of
the greatest hypnotists in the world. and
that If he will gaze into its eyes he will
feel their influence and soon drop into
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
a card: that he will read what is written
thereon. and that ever afterward he can
make himself sleep by gazing at the same
card IL undressed and in bed. Then prepare
a card reading something like this: Ten
minutes after reading this you will drop
into a 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. 10 sl-.-
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
right A good subject will seldom keep his
eyes open until he has gazed at the whole
ten nails
Some professional operators employ a lit
tie electric lamp. which when graspcd
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 over 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 or course,
the hand relaxes from fatigue. The light
extinGuishes itself and the subject really
sleeps a result of the suggestion.