At this all three of my listeners broke into laughter.
“And I’m a big man!” I cried out angrily. “And I have a big sword!”
“Christ healed those ten lepers,” the missionary explained to my parents. “The boy has seen some famous paintings.”
But neither father nor mother could remember that I had ever seen famous paintings.
“He will certainly become a good Bible scholar,” the missionary told father and mother after I had kissed them good-night and departed for bed. “Or else, with that imagination, he’ll become a successful fiction-writer.”
Well, back to solitary. By self-hypnosis, which I began successfully to practise, I became able to put my conscious mind to sleep and to awaken and loose my subconscious mind. My method of mechanical hypnosis was simple. Sitting with folded legs on my straw-mattress, I gazed fixedly at a straw which I had attached to the wall of my cell near the door where the most light was. I gazed at the bright point. At the same time I relaxed all my will and gave myself to the swaying dizziness that always eventually came to me. And then I closed my eyes and fell unconscious on the mattress.
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