How We Fall Asleep

Scientific investigators assert that in bezinning1 to sleep the senses do not unitedly fall into slumber, but drop off one after another. The sight ceases in consequence of the protection of the eyelids to receive impressions first, while all the other senses preserve their sensibility entire. The sense of taste is the text which loses its susceptibüity to impression, and then the sense of of smelling. The hearing1 is next in order, and last of all comes the sense of touch. Fiythermore, the senses are brought to sleep with different degrees of profoundness. The sense of touch sleeps the most lightly, and the most easily awakened; the next easiest is the hearing, the next is the sight, and the taste and smelling awake last. Another remarkable circumstance deserves notice; certain muscles and parts of the body begin to sleep before others. Sleep commences at the extremities, beginning with the feet and legs and creeping toward the center of the nervous action, explains the American Analyst. The necessity of keeping the feet warm and perfectly still as a preliminary of sleep is well known. From these explanations it will not appear surprising that there should be an imperfect kind of mental action which produces the phenomena of dreaming.