any first experiment."

Now it is certainly true that we all remember or recall certain things
to be done at certain hours, even if we have a hundred other thoughts
in the interval. But it would seem as if by some law which we do not
understand Sleep or repose acted as a preserver and reviver, nay, as a
real strengthener of Thoughts, inspiring them with a new spirit. It
would seem, too, as if they came out of Dreamland, as the children in
TIECK'S story did out of Fairyland, with new lives. This is, indeed, a
beautiful conception, and I may remark that I will in another place
comment on the curious fact that we can add to and intensify ideas by
thus passing them through our minds in sleep.

Just by the same process as that which enables us to awake at a given
hour, and simply by substituting other ideas for that of time, can we
acquire the ability to bring upon ourselves pre-determined or desired
states of mind. This is Self-Suggestion or deferred determination, be
it with or without sleep. It becomes more certain in its result with
every new experiment or trial. The great factor in the whole is
perseverance or repetition. By faith we can remove mountains, by
perseverance we can carry them away, and the two amount to precisely
the same thing.

And here be it noted what, I believe, no writer has ever before
observed, that as perseverance depends on renewed forethought and
reflection, so by continued practice and thought, in self-suggestion,
the one practicing begins to find before long that his conscious will
is acting more vigorously in his waking hours, and that he can finally
dispense with the sleeping process. For, in fact, when we once find
that our will is really beginning to obey us, and inspire courage or