Clinical literature is full of examples of such hypnotic conditioning. The subject is asked, for instance, to wake up on the following morning precisely at three o'clock, to take a book and read for fifteen minutes. In order to make the experiment conclusive and convincing, he may be instructed to forget about the order, but to execute it as it were spontaneously. True enough, the subject wakes up at the indicated time and does everything exactly as instructed. Afterwards, if asked why he did it, he will, in all probability, retort that there was really nothing extraordinary about his actions. He simply woke up and, feeling that he would not be able to go back to sleep immediately, decided to take a book and to read for a while. The human power of rationalization is truly amazing, and men tend to explain away anything that does not suit their purposes or evades their comprehension.
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