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THE manager of a Yorkshire bank lost a duplicate key which gave access to all the safes and desks in the office.
Naturally, he was in an awful stew. If the key got into the hands of any wrong person, the result would be most serious.
Half frantic, he wired to London for a first-class detective, who came down at once. The detective began by interviewing everyone connected with the bank, and making a thorough search. At last he came back to the manager.
"Look here," he said. "I am perfectly satisfied that none of your people know anything about this lost key. I am equally certain that you yourself have put it away somewhere, and that you have been worrying yourself so much about the business that you have forgotten where you have put it. So long as you go on worrying you will not remember; but go to bed to-night with the assurance that it will be found. Get a good night's rest. It is a hundred to one that in the morning you will remember where you put it."
The manager was impressed. He went to bed early, composed himself to sleep and—sure enough—early next morning he got up and went straight to the spot where he himself had hidden the key. It was in a little box in a drawer where he kept his handkerchiefs.
Afterwards he told the detective that the recollection had come to him in a dream.
You and I and every person in ordinary health spend one-third of our lives in bed. Some sleep well, some badly, but for all of us, sleep is necessary to repair the body waste and keep the machine going.
Fewer know and fewer still act on the knowledge that there is a part of us which never sleeps. This is the portion of your consciousness called the "subjective."
Your mind is in two parts, one the "objective," which is what you reason with, the other, the "subjective," is the seat of memory. When you are asleep the subjective, being uncontrolled, wanders at will and produces those disconnected memories and visions which we call dreams.
It receives also impressions from the thoughts of other people, and when there are evil, cruel, wicked thoughts, may be badly influenced thereby. In any case, few people remember their dreams, or make any use of them even if they do remember them.
Strange as it may seem, it is yet perfectly true that you may train yourself to dream with use and profit. This is a perfectly simple matter, and only requires forethought and perseverance.
Whatever your business in life, thought is necessary and imagination, in order to make it successful. If you are an artist, a writer, painter, musician. inventor, sculptor, you can never be a success without imagination. If you are in any business, it is equally necessary to think out plans of campaign. There never was a great soldier or sailor who had not the power of imagination.
Now you can use your sleep thus for this sort of work. Your subjective mind is quite willing to work for you if you will only make it. It is like the Irishman who said, "Sure, I'll go willingly, if I am fetched."
When you are in bed, before you go to sleep, say to your subjective, "I want to do so and so—to invent a plot, to plan a campaign, to give me some good ideas on such and such a subject." Say it over and over again. Will it. Do it night after night. Don't get discouraged even if three weeks elapse before you get any result. The result will come. Try it and see-
But one point you must remember. You have to make sure, first that your sleep is natural and sound. If you eat late suppers, drink more than is good for your health, or play the fool with your body in any way whatever, it is no use. You had better leave it alone.
Roy Glashan's Library
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