to
believe that this sensation was purely imaginary on his part.)

Then he says: "A sensation akin to fear came over me. The operator said:
'You are going to sleep, you are getting sleepy. You cannot open your
eyes.' I was conscious that my heart was beating rapidly, and I felt a
sensation of terror. He continued to tell me I was going to sleep, and
could not open my eves. He then made passes over my head, down over my
hands and body, but did not touch me. He then said to me, 'You cannot
open your eyes.' The motor apparatus of my lids would not seemingly
respond to my will, yet I was conscious that while one part of my mind
wanted to open my eyes, another part did not want to, so I was in a
paradoxical state. I believed that I could open my eyes, and yet could
not. The feeling of not wishing to open my eyes was not based upon any
desire to please the operator. I had no personal interest in him in any
way, but, be it understood, I firmly believed in his power to control
me. He continued to suggest to me that I was going to sleep, and the
suggestion of terror previously mentioned continued to increase."

The next step was to put the doctor's hand over his head, and tell him
he could not put it down. Then he stroked the arm and said it was
growing numb. He said: "You have no feeling in it, have you?" Dr. Cocke
goes on: "I said 'No,' and I knew that I said 'No,' yet I knew that I
had a feeling in it." The operator went on, pricking the arm with a pin,
and though Dr. Cocke felt the pain he said he did not feel it, and at
the same time the sensation of terror increased. "I was not conscious of
my body at all," he says further on, "but I was painfully conscious of
the two contradictory elements within me. I knew that my body existed,
but could not prove it to myself. I knew that the statements made by the
operator were in a measure untrue. I obeyed them voluntarily and
involuntarily. This is the last remembrance that I have of that hypnotic
experience."

After this, however, the operator caused the doctor to do a number of
things which he learned of from his friends after the performance was
over. "It seemed to me that the hypnotist commanded me to awake as soon
as I dropped my arm," and yet ten minutes of unconsciousness had passed.

On a subsequent occasion Dr. Cocke, who was blind, was put into a deep
hypnotic sleep by fixing his mind on the number 26 and holding up his
hand. This time he experienced a still greater deg