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Writes While Asleep,LONDON ELECTRICIAN.MENTAL CARRY-OVER.”LONDON, Nov. 20 (by Air Mail).— Ir. D. A. Lamb, who for the past three ears ha* been In charge of the electric ghtlng effects for all the big exhl-ltions at Olympia, London, la a man -ho works while he la a-sleep. Every ight while fnat asleep he writes notes ) himself and la able to go to his fBce In the morning with hta day a rork already planned.It has been my habit, he said this •eck, to leave a scribbling pad and encll by the side of my bed so that i the morning I could make notea# J •_ W. •• ......ft- MIMWM »*MM w UV. MWUk.Then suddenly I found notes on the ad In the morning, although I was ulte aure I hod not awakened during he night. The notes were quite legible -1th the important points underlined.have sometimes found as many as even notes—not meaningless, but ctually concerning things which I had 3 do that day.I became worried and went to a aycho-analyat. He told me that I ave a 'mental carry-over’—that my rain has too much with which to deal nd goes on working while I am asleep.Now I’ve given up putting a eribbling pad by my bedside. It warn he only way.”
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Mackay Daily Mercury

Mackay, Queensland, AU

Fri, Dec 09, 1938

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