The Mind Creative NOV-Dec 2016

There are several different schools in the question of what
position is the most restful during sleep. Some claim that one arm
should be wrapped around the head (to keep curiosity-seekers
from discovering who is in the bed) and the other extended
backward so that the hand clutches the electric-light switch, in
case screamers or chain-rattlers get into the room. This leaves
the feet to be arranged at the pleasure of the sleeper.
Others are convinced that a really recuperative night can be
spent only by sitting bolt upright in bed, with the eyes open and
a large blunderbuss across the knees. In this proposition it is best
to keep the lights on, as clicking them on and off constantly
makes quite a racket which is likely to disturb the sleeper.
I, personally, like to sleep with my
head out the window and my feet in a
tepid foot-bath (72 degrees). Thus I am
able to watch up and down the street
and, at the same time, draw the circulation
away from my head, where it is so
unhappy.
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Infants need the most sleep, and, what is more, get it. Stunning
them with a soft, padded hammer is the best way to insure their
getting it at the right times.
As a person gets older he needs less and less sleep, until by the
time he is ninety-five or a hundred it doesn't make any difference
whether he gets any sleep at all. This scientific fact accounts for
the number of nonagenarians one sees on the street at three and
four in the morning. Or maybe it is just that they look like
nonagenarians.
The best way to induce sleep is to take off all the clothes, get
into some comfortable sleeping garment and lie down in bed. You
can then always get up, put on some comfortable hunting togs
and go out and run down a fox.
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