On Going To Sleep (1868)

Sleep… We All Sleep. But How Does It Happen? Every Night We ‘Fall Asleep’ With No Idea What Is Happening Or Where We Are Going. Charles H. Moore Addresses This Curious Nightly Occurrence. Written In 1868 The Reader Is Sure To Find Some Answers. Be Advised That This Is A Fairly Scientific Viewpoint And Not Written For Frivolous Reading.“We Know Something Of Sleep Itself And Something Also Of Dreaming Or Incomplete Sleep; But The Child’S Old Question “How Do We Go To Sleep?” Has Never Been Answered. The Difficulty Of The Question Seems To Lie In Two Things — In Ignorance As To What Part Of Our Complex Nature It Concerns And In The Occurrence Itself Being Such As To Elude Our Own Discernment Of It”“What Is Going To Sleep? There Is A Final Moment Of Time In Which Wakefulness Passes Into Sleep. By Previous Arrangements Within And Around Us Occasions Of Sensation Are Excluded And The Mind Composes Itself So Far As To Relinquish All Activity Of Voluntary Thought. A Feeling Of Relaxation Ensues Like That In The Eye When Giving Up The Effort To Inspect A Near Object And Expanding Its Gaze Afar; A Feeling The Opposite Of That Cerebral Action Or Movement In The Forehead Of Which We Are Sometimes Conscious When Resolutely Concentrating Attention On A Purely Mental Object. In Some Moment Of This Gradually Deepening Calm Sleep Suddenly Arrives.”. - - - - - - - - - -This Ebook Edition Of The 1868 Original Has Been Carefully Edited For Errors And Is As True To The Original As Possible. The Spelling Of The Time Has Generally Been Left Intact. [Edb Pubs]. . Publisher’S Note: While It Is True That Some Old Books Can Be Found For Free On The Internet The Quality Of Most ‘Free’ Material Is Not Acceptable. Here Is An Example Of The Work To Be Done In Order To Produce A Readable Version For The Kindle Reader:Text Found Online:It Was King Ay Tut-Ankli'Anieti’S Successor Who Buried Our Monarcli For There On The Inner W^S Of Tut'Ankh*Amends Tomb-Chamber. Ay As King Has Caused Himself To Be Rcprcsentcct Among The Religious Preface Bcenesj Officiating Before Tut-Ankh-Amai—A Scm^E Unprecedented In The Royal Tombs Of This Nccropous*’’. The Same Text After Editing:“It Was King Ay Tut-Ankh-Amen’S Successor Who Buried Our Monarch For There On The Inner Walls Of Tut-Ankh-Amen’S Tomb-Chamber Ay As King Has Caused Himself To Be Represented Among The Religious Scenes Officiating Before Tut-Ankh-Amen— A Scene Unprecedented In The Royal Tombs Of This Necropolis.’’