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PRENATAL CULTURE. 



Control During 

 Sleep, 



The point of special interest to us in this im- 

 mediate connection is, that it is possible for one 

 person to stimulate the brain areas in another 

 Silent Suggestion, person through silent suggestion. This fact is 

 now very generally admitted and widely practiced 

 by psychologists. It is also known that successful 

 mental treatment can be given while the patient 

 is either in a hypnotic or natural sleep. 



Experimenters tell us that persons having a 

 very active temperament are more amenable to 

 control during sleep than when awake, and that 

 suggestions lodged in the mind of a sleeping sub- 

 ject remain and become influential or controlling 

 factors in future conduct. 



This last proposition has been repeatedly dem- 

 onstrated. I saw Prof. Tyndall, at Los Angeles, 

 hypnotize a young man and lodge in his mind the 

 suggestion that a certain sum of money had been 

 placed in one of the banks to his credit, and that 

 the following morning he would go to the bank 

 at 9 o'clock and demand the deposit. The fol- 

 lowing morning at the appointed time the in- 

 credulous crowd was surprised to see the young 

 man making straight for the bank with the full 

 assurance in his face that a handsome sum of 

 money awaited him. At Detroit a physician re- 

 cently controlled an erring girl by hypnotic sug- 

 gestion so that she abandoned her life of shame 

 and returned to her home a reformed woman. 



An amateur hypnotist, at Albany, N. Y., lodged 

 a suggestion in the mind of a pupil to the effect 

 that she could not recall her name. The young 

 lady after a few vain efforts became frightened, 

 ran to her mother, who spoke her name, but still 



Hypnotism 

 Practically 

 Applied* 



Dangers in 



Hypnotism. 



