Wake Up and Sleep! Riding Ether Waves to Bigger Brains, 1938

JF Ptak Science Books   Daily Dose from Dr. Odd

Q: What is the one sure thing that is very impressive about this publication by Mr. Rex Knight?

A:  The 35-ring wire binding on a six-inch tall publication. There's not much to recommend itself to recommendation and memory. 

[Perfection had better hurry up and get here given my own fast-short-sleep habits]

Mr. Knight had some ideas about sleep and well-being and achieving various states of normalcy and perfection, most of which had to do with waking up during hte night and staring at one of the many full-page neuro-demands which evidently were in direct confrontation with whatever it was in your head that was keeping you from success and strength and wealth and inspiration and self, combating "enslaving habits" and "lesser habits" by telling the brain what to do with the mind.  Or something along those lines.

In any event, Mr. Knight tried something out and used a lot of wire to bind the really rather nice paper his effort was printed on, so Wake Up and Sleep had at least that going for it.  Aside from that, his suggestions seem more disruptive and potentially rheumy-eyed more than anything else, waking you through the night to hand deliver messages to your sleeping and semi-enslaved brain to find its own appropriate "wave" to enrich your life.  "The prize idea that you seek is in the air all around you", he writes.  "Ether waves, mental waves, cosmic or whatever you choose to call them, are everywhere.  All you are trying to do is to get tuned in on the right wave". 

"Expect more and more of sleep" says Mr. Knight--at least that is one remedy that would sound good to almost everyone. 

It is interesting to note that "Rex Knight" is very close to being "R_x Night".  And "King of the Night".

Lastly, according to WorldCat, there is only one copy located in libraries worldwide--that at NYPL.  My copy was from the copyright office/collection at the Library of Congress when it came to me in a Very Large Grouping (called with little imagination "The Pamphlet Collection") many years ago.  It never was a hit for the libraries.