WAKING WHEN YOU LIKE power people have but a yet unexplained A discussion has been going oo 00 among the members of alie english society for psychical research as to the existence and the nature of the power by which people manage to wake pro bisely at the hour at which they have resolved to wake themselves the pro night you may fix five minutes before the hour in a house in which no clock strikes the quarter or even in a hc ise where there is no striking clock within a couple of miles and yet not one person only but a great many we might perhaps ay pay p the majority of persons past middle rge can wake i themselves at the right hour if on the previous night they go to bed with the to do so strong in their mind jt it is the which belongs to all sorta of persons not only persona who haw been in the habit of getting up at given hours but to persons who have not most nurses cave it most servants most laborers professional men yet it is very difficult to account for this phenomenon for when you wake you have no distinct nor indeed indistinct recognition of the time you only know what time you ought to have been awake but you are not in the least conscious that this time has arrived though when you look at your watch in a fright you find as a matter of fact that it has arrived and only just arrived the curious thing is that though you can arrest your own attention and wake at the required time you never seem to have the least assurance that it is the right time without consulting your watch if you really do divine time you have no power of recognizing that you have divined it you feel as if you had merely guessed it and very probably guessed wrong until your watch confirms the guess