A SUBSTITUTE FOR SLEEP.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 79, 10 April 1913, Page 4

A SUBSTITUTE FOR SLEEP.

A substitute for sloop, which permits of brain work dming the twenty-four hours of the day, is announced by Professor Munsterburg, head of the Department of Psychology, and Dr. L. H. Horton, of the Massachusetts State Psychopathic Hospital. One of the members of tbe Harvard faculty whose name is withheld because \u does not desire publicity, was (say;-: the New York correspondent of the Standard) the subject on which the experiments were conducted. He engaged in arduous mental work sonic time ago which produced such extreme insomnia that insanity war; feared. For his benefit a scientifically prepared chair was constructed, permitting "as complete a relaxation as a gallon of molasses on a marble slab." The subject of the experiment, when seated in the chair, obtained full rest in half the time required in sleep in an ordinary bed. He retained full consciousness, ami when he left the chair all his bodily vigour was restored. This unnamed professor has been living this life for a number of years, never finding it necessary to close his eyes. Dr. Horton calls it the recovery of a lost instinct, and it is also described as a "twilight state." Professor Munsterburg, in vouching for the truth of the story, says there is nothing in it which cannot be explained scientifically.