It is succeeded by a state of steady wakefulness, which effort of attention or effort not to attend only intensifies.

If the victim of insomnia could only forget that he is thus afflicted, could forget himself altogether, his case would be more hopeful.

The contrast between this condition and that already described shows that it is the Self-idea, with the emotions it awakens,[11] which prevents the suggestion from realizing itself and probably accounts for many cases of insomnia.
[Footnote 11: A friend informs me that when he pictures himself dead he can not help feeling gratified that he makes so handsome a corpse.] _Sense Exaltation._--Recent discussions of Hypnotism have shown the remarkable "exaltation" which the senses may attain in somnambulism, together with a corresponding refinement in the interpretative faculty.

This is described more fully below.

Events, etc., quite subconscious, usually become suggestions of direct influence upon the subject.