- A humorous look at the problems people have trying to sleep.
- Following giving one on how to keep awake, a man holds a lecture on the topic of how to sleep. He plans to separate the lecture into four sections: the cause of sleep, how to induce sleep, methods of avoiding sleep, and how to wake up. He discusses that sleep occurs when blood leaves the brain, and then he talks about several home remedies for that to happen, some having some unintended consequences. Consequentially, he also talks about reasons for insomnia, some unwittingly self-induced. In this discussion, he also talks about why people may wake up in the middle of the night. That last issue also has unintended consequences for his lecture.—Huggo
- A lecturer seated at a desk promises an informative film about how to sleep; it's a sequel to and inspired by "How to stay awake", which put his audience to sleep. He plans to examine the causes of sleep, the causes of insomnia, and recent research on sleep, including a time-lapse film of a man changing positions 55 times during an 8-hour rest. Why exercise, he asks, when you can sleep like a top? The film instructs one on how to get a drink of water during the night without waking completely and other useful skills for the insomniac.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
- Peter Benchley provides commentary on sleep, discussing four parts of sleep - causes, methods, avoiding sleep, and waking up. Sleep, Benchley declares, is caused by the blood leaving the brain, or in the case of the alcoholic, the brain leaving the blood. A hot pine bath or a drink of hot milk are thought to be sleep inducing. However never getting into the bath or finding a feast of leftovers in the icebox when returning the milk might be equally effective. Insomnia occurs when blood fails to leave the brain and the comfort of the pillow is never found. Worry is one such cause on insomnia. The myth of counting sheep leaping over a fence of an insomnia cure is dispelled when the worrier begins to concern himself whether all the sheep can make it over the fence. Noise is another detriment to sleep. Fixing the flapping window shade, stopping the dripping faucet and attempting to slap the spiraling mosquito are illustrated. Sometimes the insomniac cannot even stay in bed. Those over indulging in alcohol may experience physical symptoms which keep them awake and when extenuate the subject's irritability. Inferior bed making can lead to discomfort in bed where a would-be sleeper experiences the exposure of the feet or backside. A pamphlet reveals the average sleeper changes position 55 times during an eight-hour sleep. A sped up camera shows the physical exertion necessary for a good night's sleep. A bad sleeper may drop off for an hour or so before awakened by thirst. Though trying to stay half asleep, the bad sleeper struggles to find the bathroom and fill a glass of water to drink. Then the bad sleeper trips on his shoes returning to bed causing him to fully awaken until just before his alarm clock is about to ring which makes for a sleepy day on the job.
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