Unintended gestures, habitual with the experimenter, may suffice to hypnotize his accustomed subject.

The possibility of such training of the senses in the normal state has not had sufficient emphasis.

The young child's subtle discriminations of facial and other personal indications are remarkable.

The prolonged experience of putting H.to sleep--extending over a period of more than six months, during which I slept beside her bed--served to make me alive to a certain class of suggestions otherwise quite beyond notice.

It is well known that mothers are awake to the needs of their infants when they are asleep to everything else.
In the first place, we may note the intense auto-suggestion of sleep already pointed out, under the stimulus of repeated nursery rhymes or other regular devices regularly resorted to in putting the child asleep.