The psychology of sleep

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INTRODUCTION

CONTENTS

FOREWORD

CHAPTER I SLEEP

CHAPTER II HOW MUCH SLEEP

CHAPTER III THE TIME OF SLEEP

CHAPTER IV WHAT SLEEP MAY MEAN

CHAPTER V HOW TO GO TO SLEEP

CHAPTER VI SLEEP IS NATURAL

CHAPTER VII THE DUPLEX MIND

CHAPTER VIII WAKEFULNESS

CHAPTER IX SIMPLE CAUSES OF WAKEFULNESS

CHAPTER X "LIGHT" SLEEPERS

CHAPTER XI THE GIFTS OF WAKEFULNESS

CHAPTER XII THE PURPOSE OF SLEEP

CHAPTER XIII THE SLEEP OF THE INVALID

CHAPTER XIV THE SLEEPLESSNESS OF PAIN

CHAPTER XV OPIATES

CHAPTER XVI DEVICES FOR GOING TO SLEEP

CHAPTER XVII MORE DEVICES FOR GOING TO SLEEP

CHAPTER XVIII STILL FURTHER DEVICES

CHAPTER XIX HYPNOTIC SLEEP

CHAPTER XX "PERCHANCE TO DREAM"

CHAPTER XXI NATURAL LIVING

CHAPTER XXII FRESH AIR AND REFRESHING SLEEP

CHAPTER XXIII THE BREATH OF LIFE

CHAPTER XXIV. EATING AND SLEEPING

CHAPTER XXV SLEEPING AND EATING

CHAPTER XXVI SOME MODERN THEORIES OF SLEEP

CHAPTER XXVII EARLY THEORIES OF SLEEP

CHAPTER XXVIII MORE THEORIES

CHAPTER XXIX STILL MORE THEORIES

CHAPTER XXX WE LEARN TO DO BY DOING

CHAPTER XXXI VAIN REGRETS

CHAPTER XXXII THE LOVE THAT IS PEACE

CHAPTER XXXIII THE SPECTER OF DEATH

CHAPTER XXXIV A NATURAL CHANGE

CHAPTER XXXV THE DISTRUST OF LIFE

CHAPTER XXXVI REST AND SLEEP

CHAPTER XXXVII THE NEED OF REST

CHAPTER XXXVIII SAVING OF EFFORT

CHAPTER XXXIX ANTAGONISM

CHAPTER XL STRUGGLE IN THE FAMILY

CHAPTER XLI UNNATURAL LAWS

CHAPTER XLII THE NATURAL LAW

CHAPTER XLIII "LETTING GO"

CHAPTER XLIV REST IN TRUTH

CHAPTER XLV THE SPAN OF LIFE

CHAPTER XLVI WASTE STEAM

CHAPTER XLVII UNDERSTANDING

CHAPTER XLVIII THE SUPERSTITION OF FEAR

CHAPTER XLIX IMAGINARY FEARS

CHAPTER L ILL SUCCESS

CHAPTER LI SOCIAL UNREST

CHAPTER LII ECONOMIC REST

CHAPTER LIII "IF HE SLEEP, HE SHALL DO WELL"

CHAPTER LIV CONCLUSION

APPENDICES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

APPENDIX A

APPENDIX B ABSTRACT FROM ARTICLE: "LUMINOUS SLEEP"

APPENDIX C THESE CLASSICAL, THOUGH ENTIRELY A PRIORI, THEORIES OF SLEEP ARE NOT WITHOUT INTEREST

APPENDIX D QUESTIONNAIRE ON SLEEP

APPENDIX E BIBLIOGRAPHY

Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variations in hyphenation and accents and all other spelling and punctuation remains unchanged.

The quotation from Ballad of Reading Gaol, (Chapter VIII) has been corrected from

And Sleep will not lie down but walks
And wild-eyed cries to time.

to

And Sleep will not lie down but walks
Wild-eyed and cries to time.

The cover was prepared by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.


BOLTON HALL
“THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SLEEP”

BY

BOLTON HALL, M.A.
Author of “Three Acres and Liberty,” “Things as They Are,” “Free America,” etc.

With an Introduction
BY

EDWARD MOFFAT WEYER, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy, Washington and Jefferson College

Publishers

New York
MOFFAT, YARD AND COMPANY
1917


Copyright, 1911, by
MOFFAT, YARD AND COMPANY
New York

All rights reserved
Published October, 1911

THE QUINN & BODEN CO. PRESS
RAHWAY, N. J.


TO THE MEMORY OF

THE REVEREND DR. JOHN HALL

WHO PREACHED FROM THE WORD
WHAT I TEACH FROM THE WORLD


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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