Mr. Sandman, Please Send Me A DreamThe science of vintage sleep13 images

A student at a London hospital learns how to fully relax under the tuition of Mary Phillips of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists.

Bart, a young Boston Terrier, asleep in his owner's bed, after spending six months in quarantine. Bart was brought into the country from Canada by RSPCA officer, Mr Whitaker.

A man sleeping on a specially designed machine.

New York, NY- A retailing store of singular distinction is the Lewis & Conger Sleep Shop. An insomniac's paradise, the shop is the only one of its kind in the world, selling items devoted exclusively to wooing comfort in bed and good...Plus

The raindrop noise maker, a Japanese invention to aid sleeping. The speed of the raindrops can be adjusted.

Model sleeping in a white dress with a ruffled neckline; multiple exposures.

George J Wilson's patent (no. 3089130) for a snore alarm. It works by monitoring noise levels with a microphone and adjusting the angle of the sleeper's head when snoring is detected.

1950s WOMAN

DEC 2 1954, DEC 3 1954; A group of University of Denver students are shown in various stages of hypnotic sleep during an experiment conducted at the downtown campus Thursday by Dr. Arthur Ellen, hypnotist and entertainer.;

A handwritten sign tacked onto the wall of a grubby hotel room warns the occupant that snoring is forbidden.

A multitude of anti-snoring sleeping gadgets available to the public.

Man undergoing an anti-snoring sleeping test with a microphone resting near his mouth.