And this, as Dr.COCKE has experienced and described, can be produced to a degree by anyone on himself.

But as I have verified by experiment, if we, after retiring to rest at night, will calmly yet firmly resolve to do something on the following day, or be as much as possible in a certain state of mind, and if we then fall into ordinary natural sleep, just as usual, we may on waking have forgotten all about it, yet will none the less feel the impulse and carry out the determination.
What gives authority for this assertion, for which I am indebted originally to no suggestion or reading, is the statement found in several authorities that a man can "hypnotize" another without putting him to sleep; that is, make him unconsciously follow suggestion.
I had read in works on hypnotism of an endless number of experiments, how patients were made to believe that they were monkeys or madmen, or umbrellas, or criminals, women or men, _a volonte_, but in few of them did I find that it had ever occurred to anybody to turn this wonderful power of developing the intellect to any permanent benefit, or to increasing the moral sense.

Then it came to my mind since Self-Suggestion was possible that if I would resolve to work _all_ the next day; that is, apply myself to literary or artistic labor without once feeling fatigue, and succeed, it would be a marvelous thing for a man of my age.

And so it befell that by making an easy beginning I brought it to pass to perfection.

What I mean by an easy beginning is not to will or resolve _too_ vehemently, but to simply and very gently, yet assiduously, impress the idea on the mind _so as to fall asleep while thinking of it as a thing to be_.